# JA-HA (Yāh(a))

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

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

- Reading: Yāh(a)
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*yah-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3790/index.md>) 'Yah, Yahweh (divine name)'
- Kind: Divine
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: JA (ja) · HA (*21F)

## Compared forms

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

## Attestations

- [HT 28a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT28a/index.md>): JA-\*21F GRA+QE 5 — Yāh, divine name; grain+QE 5, OLE+U 2, OLE+KI ½, OLE+MI 1, OLE+TU ¹⁄₂₀
- [HT 28b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT28b/index.md>): JA-\*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.

## In the onomasticon

- [JA-\*21F](<https://linear-a.ai/names/JA-*21F/index.md>): God or goddess, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT; Gelb 1980; DULAT; Ilin-Tomich 2025
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- 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
- PNM: Ilin-Tomich, Alexander (2025), Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom (PNM), version 6. Zenodo (Freie Universität Berlin); CC BY 4.0

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