JA-PA

personal name ("he shines"—Amarna Yapaḫu)

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Reading
Yapaʿ(u)
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*yVpVʕ- ‘shine’ 1, ‘go up, rise’ 2
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
Amorite-linked appendix

Compared forms

  • AmarnaYapaḫu (EA 297-300)—ruler of Gezer; cuneiform -ḫ- renders ʿ, √y-p-ʿ "he shines/appears"
  • Hebrewיָפַעyāpaʿyāpaʿ (יָפַע) "to shine forth" (Hiphil hôpîaʿ, Deut 33:2); PN Yāpîaʿ, king of Lachish (Josh 10:3)
  • Ugaritic𐎊𐎔𐎓ypʿypʿ "to shine forth, rise"
  • AmoriteJPʿJPʿ "to shine" (B stem jāpaʿ); bare name IA-A-PA-AH Yaypaʿ at Mari, beside Yaypaʿ-Addu, Yaypaʿ-Lim (Gelb 1980, nos. 2792–2794, p. 595)

Attestations1 cited

  1. ZA 4aJA-PA 1personal name ('he shines'), 1+ unit

Commentary

ZA 4a .3–4 JA-PẠ 1̣[, PA dotted, the numeral dotted and broken after (GORILA III 149), the only JA-PA standing alone: JA-PA-QA, I-NA-JA-PA-QA and JA-PA-RA-JA-SE are other words. Yapaʿ, √y-p-ʿ with ʿ unwritten: Amarna writes the ʿ with -ḫ- in Yapaḫu, ruler of Gezer (EA 297–300), Hebrew keeps the name as Yāpîaʿ (Josh 10:3), Alalakh has bare ia-pa yapaʿ (Buck 2018, 334), and Gelb files JA-JPAʿ at Mari and Alalakh (Gelb 1980, nos. 2792, 3395). ARKH 3b […]-JA-PI is a damaged ending. One witness. See A-WA-PI.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon