I-QA-*118

divide! (imperative of √q-ṭ-ʿ), heading over mixed commodities

𐘚IAB2864 entries𐘌QAAB1624 entries𐙈*118AB1187 entries
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Reading
iqṭaʿ
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*qVṭVʿ- ‘cut’, ‘finish, be finished’, ‘be spent’
Kind
Administrative
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Arabicqaṭaʿaqaṭaʿa ‘cut’; D qaṭṭaʿa ‘divide’ (Q 7:160); qaṭīʿa ‘portion of land held in fee’ (Lane 2990)
  • AramaicJPA qəṭaʿJPA qəṭaʿ ‘cut off’, Pa. qaṭṭaʿ ‘divide (a Sidra)’ (Jastrow 1351)
  • HebrewMHeb. qāṭaʿMHeb. qāṭaʿ ‘cut off’ (Jastrow 1351); BH II qṣʿ, pu. məquṣṣāʿôt ‘made with corners’ (Ex 26:23; HALOT 1124)
  • Ugaritic𐎖𐎕𐎓𐎚qṣʿtqṣʿt ‘arrows’, < *qṭʿ (DULAT 705)
  • Sabaicqṣʿqṣʿ ‘cut down’ (Biella 464)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 44aI-QA-*118 GRAdivide! (section heading)

Commentary

Heads a mixed commodity section: HT 44a I-QA-*118 · GRA, OLE+KI, OLE+U, OLE+RA, OLIV, NI, VIN, over an erasure, QA over an erased I (GORILA I 85). iqṭaʿ ‘divide!’, the imperative of √q-ṭ-ʿ ‘cut, divide’ (PS *qVṭVʿ-), with *118 = ṭa and the final ʿ unwritten: Arb. wa-qaṭṭaʿnāhum ‘and We divided them’ into twelve tribes (Q 7:160); JPA Pa. qaṭṭaʿ ‘divide (a Sidra)’ (Jastrow 1351). Hebrew, Ugaritic and Sabaic have q-ṣ-ʿ (HALOT 1124; DULAT 705); the ṭ follows Arabic and Aramaic. Rivals: ʾiqṭaʿ ‘I divide’, the 1 sg. prefix, since the prefixed i- of the imperative is Arabic only; a personal or institutional name. Weak point: *118 = ṭa is a proposed value. One attestation.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon