JA-HA

Yāh, divine name; deity receiving offerings alongside Baal on HT28b

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Reading
Yāh(a)
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*yah- ‘Yah, Yahweh (divine name)’
Kind
Divine
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Hebrewיָהּ Yāh (Ex 15:2 ʿozzī wə-zimrāt Yāh; Ps 68:5 bə-Yāh šemō; Ex 17:16 kēs Yāh)
  • Ugariticyw, a name of the god Yam: šm bny yw ‘the name of my son is yw’ (KTU 1.1 IV 14; DULAT 980)
  • Egyptiantꜣ šꜣsw yhwꜣ ‘land of the Shasu of YHW’ (Soleb, Amenhotep III c. 1390 BCE; Amarah West, Ramesses II)

Attestations2 cited

  1. HT 28aJA-*21F GRA+QE 5Yāh, divine name; grain+QE 5, OLE+U 2, OLE+KI ½, OLE+MI 1, OLE+TU ¹⁄₂₀
  2. HT 28bJA-*21F VIN 6

Commentary

Written JA-*21F, with *21F = HA (h, ḫ). HT 28b: the recipient of VIN 6, between PU-RA₂ (Baal, NI 6) and WI-DI-NA (OLE+DI 3, VIN 3¼), as in the Ugaritic offering lists (KTU 1.39, 1.41). HT 28a: heads its own commodity list after A-SI-JA-KA. Yāh, the short form of the divine name (HALOT 393). Rivals: the Egyptian moon god Iah, jꜥḥ (Ilin-Tomich 2025); the Amorite verbal names Yahwiy-ʾIl, Yahwiy-Haddu (Gelb 1980, nos. 2871, 3593). DULAT 980 keeps Ugaritic yw apart from Hebrew yh. Weak point: Hebrew yh is first attested in the Iron Age, on jar handles from Jericho and Samaria and the Lachish altar (HALOT 393). Two attestations.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon