# JA-PA-RA-JA-SE (yapʾara yāṣē)

> may that which goes out glorify—volitive yaqtula √p-ʾ-r + √y-ṣ-ʾ participle/imperfect (the outpoured libation as subject)

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

- Reading: yapʾara yāṣē
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*pVʔVr-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2964/index.md>) 'to beautify, glorify, adorn; beauty, ornament, glory' + [\*wVṣ̂Vʾ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0448/index.md>) 'leave' 1, 'exit, issue' 2
- Kind: Verbal
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: JA (ja) · PA (pa) · RA (ra) · JA (ja) · SE (se)

## Compared forms

- : Hebrew פָּאַר *pāʾar* — Hebrew פָּאַר (pāʾar) "glorify, beautify" (Isa 60:7, 13; hitpaʿel Isa 60:21, 61:3), פְּאֵר (pəʾēr) "diadem, headdress", תִּפְאֶרֶת (tipʾart) "beauty, splendor"; Akkadian apāru "to cap, crown" (CAD A/2 166–67; āpirat agê bēlūti of Ištar, STC 2 75:7); Hebrew יָצָא/יֹצֵא (yāṣāʾ/yōṣē) "go out"; Akkadian (w)aṣû "go out", ṣītu "outflow, disbursement"

## Attestations

- [SY Za 9](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/SYZa9/index.md>): JA-PA-RA-JA-SE — may that which goes out glorify

## Commentary

SY Za 9, Syme, HM 5585, found 1987 (Muhly and Olivier 2008, 212–13, transcription only): two words, JA-PA-RA and JA-SE. JA-PA-RA yapʾara, the 3 m. sg. ya- prefix with √p-ʾ-r 'glorify, adorn', the ʾ unwritten as in JA-PA-QA yapqaḥ (PK Za 11, PK Za 12), final -A the volitive yaqtula of prayer. JA-SE yāṣē, the yāṣē of SI-JA-SE šī-yāṣē 'which goes out' (HT Zb 159, PE Zb 3), the disbursement marker there, the outpoured libation here: 'may that which goes out glorify (her)', verb first. Hebrew puts the root in the sanctuary: לְפָאֵר מְקוֹם מִקְדָּשִׁי 'to beautify the place of my sanctuary' (Isa 60:13), the hitpaʿel in Isa 60:21 and 61:3, and Ben Sira 50:20 (MS B) ובשם ייי התפאר 'and in the name of YYY he gloried'. The root also gives pəʾēr 'diadem' and tipʾart 'splendor'. Rivals: Ugaritic pʿr 'proclaim (a name)' (ypʿr šmthm, KTU 1.2 IV 11, 18), the same spelling once ʿ drops, attested only with šm 'name' as object; PS *wpr 'pilgrimage', a noun with no denominal verb and an initial w to lose. Weak point: one attestation of √p-ʾ-r; the support is yāṣē at two sites and the ya- prefix.

## Same root

- [SE-TO-I-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SE-TO-I-JA/index.md>) (Ṣētiya)
- [SI-JA-SE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SI-JA-SE/index.md>) (šī-yāṣē)
- [SI-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SI-TE/index.md>) (Ṣīt)
- [A-MA-WA-SI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-MA-WA-SI/index.md>) (ʿAmma-wāṣiʾ)
- [JA-PA-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-PA-RA/index.md>) (yapʾara)
- [JA-SE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SE/index.md>) (yāṣē)

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- 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
- CAD A/2: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1968), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. A/2. 
- Muhly, Polymnia; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (2008), Linear A Inscriptions from the Syme Sanctuary, Crete. Archaiologike Ephemeris,147,Archaeological Society at Athens,197–223

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