# JA-PA-QA (yapqaḥ)

> he opens (the eyes)

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

- Reading: yapqaḥ
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*paqaḥ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0259/index.md>) 'open-eyes'
- Kind: Ritual
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: JA (ja) · PA (pa) · QA (qa)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: פָּקַח *pāqaḥ* — פָּקַח pāqaḥ "to open (eyes)" (Isa 42:7 lipqōaḥ ʿēnayim ʿiwwərōt "to open blind eyes")
- Aramaic: *pqḥ* — pqḥ 'to open (the eyes)'
- Eblaite: *ib-ga-il yipqaḥ-ʾIl* — ib-ga-il yipqaḥ-ʾIl 'ʾIl opened', a name (Pagan 1998, row 2878)

## Attestations

- [PK Za 11](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PKZa11/index.md>): I-PI-NA-MI-NA SI-RU-\[?\] I-NA-JA-PA-QA
- [PK Za 12](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PKZa12/index.md>): \]RA-ME\[ \]A-\[…\]-NE U-NA-RU-KA-\[?\]-JA-SI A-PA-DU-PA-\[…\] \]JA-\[…\] JA-PA-QA — [he opens (his eyes)?]

## Commentary

PK Za 12, the complete final group, and PK Za 11, after I-NA. yapqaḥ, 3ms yaqtul of √p-q-ḥ 'open (the eyes)': Heb. pāqaḥ (HALOT 959), Aram. pqḥ, PS *paqaḥ-, the final laryngeal unwritten. Rival: √p-q-d, which needs a final d. JA- requires a masculine subject: in Tropper's prefix paradigm the 3rd feminine takes t- in singular, plural and dual, and y- stands only in masculine cells (Tropper 2000, 432, §73.222), with gender agreement kept when the verb stands first (886). Hebrew leaves a preceding verb in the uninflected 3ms only before subjects 'denoting animals or things' (GKC §145 o, p. 465). Weak point: the damaged context has lost the subject. Two attestations. See I-NA-JA-PA-QA.

## Same root

- [I-NA-JA-PA-QA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-NA-JA-PA-QA/index.md>) (hinna yapqaḥ)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT; Tropper 2000; GKC
- Tropper, Josef (2000), Ugaritische Grammatik. Alter Orient und Altes Testament 273,Ugarit-Verlag
- 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
- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)

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