JA-PA-RA
may he/it glorify, adorn (3ms volitive yaqtula √p-ʾ-r; guttural ʾ unwritten)
- Reading
- yapʾara
- Confidence
- Candidate
- Root
- *pVʔVr- ‘to beautify, glorify, adorn’
- Kind
- Verbal
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
- —
Compared forms
- Hebrew פָּאַרpāʾarHebrew פָּאַר (pāʾar) "glorify, beautify", פְּאֵר (pəʾēr) "diadem" (Exod 39:28; Isa 61:3), תִּפְאֶרֶת (tipʾart) "beauty, splendor"; Akkadian apāru "to cap, crown"—metathesis sibling (BDB s.v. פְּאֵר compares Assyrian ipru, ēpartu; inner-Hebrew doublet אֲפֵר ʾăpēr "headband", 1 Kgs 20:38, 41)
Attestations1 cited
- SY Za 9JA-PA-RA-JA-SE
Commentary
SY Za 9: only within JA-PA-RA-JA-SE. yapʾara, 3ms volitive yaqtula of √p-ʾ-r ‘glorify, adorn’, the guttural ʾ unwritten, as in JA-PA-QA yapqaḥ (PK Za 11, PK Za 12): the same ya- prefix before a p-initial root with the guttural dropped. One attestation. See JA-PA-RA-JA-SE.
On the 3D inscriptions
Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.