# I-QA-\*118 (iqṭaʿ)

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

A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: iqṭaʿ
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*qVṭVʿ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0337/index.md>) 'cut', 'finish, be finished', 'be spent'
- Kind: Administrative
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: I (i) · QA (qa) · \*118

## Compared forms

- Arabic: *qaṭaʿa* — qaṭaʿa 'cut'; D qaṭṭaʿa 'divide' (Q 7:160); qaṭīʿa 'portion of land held in fee' (Lane 2990)
- Aramaic: *JPA qəṭaʿ* — JPA qəṭaʿ 'cut off', Pa. qaṭṭaʿ 'divide (a Sidra)' (Jastrow 1351)
- Hebrew: *MHeb. qāṭaʿ* — MHeb. qāṭaʿ 'cut off' (Jastrow 1351); BH II qṣʿ, pu. məquṣṣāʿôt 'made with corners' (Ex 26:23; HALOT 1124)
- Ugaritic: 𐎖𐎕𐎓𐎚 *qṣʿt* — qṣʿt 'arrows', < *qṭʿ (DULAT 705)
- Sabaic: *qṣʿ* — qṣʿ 'cut down' (Biella 464)

## Attestations

- [HT 44a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT44a/index.md>): I-QA-\*118 GRA — divide! (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.

## Same root

- [QA-\*118-SA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/QA-*118-SA/index.md>) (qaṭʿ-ša)

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- Biella: Biella, Joan Copeland (1982), Dictionary of Old South Arabic: Sabaean Dialect. Scholars Press (Harvard Semitic Studies 25)
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- Jastrow: Jastrow, Marcus (1903), A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Luzac & Co., London; G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York; 2 vols
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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