# JA-PA (Yapaʿ(u))

> personal name ("he shines"—Amarna Yapaḫu)

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

- Reading: Yapaʿ(u)
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*yVpVʕ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/782/index.md>) 'shine' 1, 'go up, rise' 2
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: JA (ja) · PA (pa)
- Rank: Amorite-linked appendix

## Compared forms

- Amarna: Yapaḫu (EA 297-300)—ruler of Gezer; cuneiform -ḫ- renders ʿ, √y-p-ʿ "he shines/appears"
- Hebrew: יָפַע *yāpaʿ* — yāpaʿ (יָפַע) "to shine forth" (Hiphil hôpîaʿ, Deut 33:2); PN Yāpîaʿ, king of Lachish (Josh 10:3)
- Ugaritic: 𐎊𐎔𐎓 *ypʿ* — ypʿ "to shine forth, rise"
- Amorite: *JPʿ* — JPʿ "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)

## Attestations

- [ZA 4a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA4a/index.md>): JA-PA 1 — personal 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.

## Same root

- [A-WA-PI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-WA-PI/index.md>) (ʾawpiʿ)
- [JA-WA-PI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-WA-PI/index.md>) (Yawpiʿ)

## In the onomasticon

- [JA-PA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/JA-PA/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; GORILA III; Buck 2018; Gelb 1980
- EA: Moran, William L. (1992), The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- GORILA III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- Buck, Mary Ellen (2018), The Amorite Dynasty of Ugarit: The Historical Origins of the Bronze Age Polity of Ugarit Based upon Linguistic, Literary, and Archaeological Evidence. 

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