# JA-PA-RA (yapʾara)

> may he/it glorify, adorn (3ms volitive yaqtula √p-ʾ-r; guttural ʾ unwritten)

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

- Reading: yapʾara
- 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'
- Kind: Verbal
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: JA (ja) · PA (pa) · RA (ra)

## Compared forms

- : Hebrew פָּאַר *pāʾar* — Hebrew 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)

## Attestations

- [SY Za 9](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/SYZa9/index.md>): JA-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.

## Same root

- [JA-PA-RA-JA-SE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-PA-RA-JA-SE/index.md>) (yapʾara yāṣē)

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- BDB: Brown, Francis; Driver, S. R.; Briggs, Charles A. (1907), A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, with an Appendix Containing the Biblical Aramaic. Houghton Mifflin Company

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