# JA-SA-RA (yašara)

> righteous is (predicate before A-NA-NE ḥanān 'grace')

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

- Reading: yašara
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*yašar-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1446/index.md>) 'straight'
- Kind: Ritual
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: JA (ja) · SA (sa) · RA (ra)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: יָשָׁר *yāšar* — yāšar (יָשָׁר) 'straight, just, upright'; יְשֻׁרוּן Yəšurûn 'Jeshurun', Israel's name of honour, ישׁר + -ûn (HALOT 450), Dt 32:15, 33:5, 26, Isa 44:2
- Akkadian: *išaru* — išaru 'straight'
- Ugaritic: 𐎊𐎌𐎗 *yšr* — yšr 'uprightness' (DULAT 973); the verb is Hebrew yāšar 'to be straight, right' (HALOT 450)
- Aramaic: *yašrā* — yašrā 'straight'

## Attestations

- [KN Zc 7](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KNZc7/index.md>): JA-SA-RA-A-NA-NE WI-PI-\[?\] — righteous is

## Commentary

KN Zc 7, an inked vessel: JA-SA-RA-A-NA-NE, written without a divider. JA-SA-RA | A-NA-NE yašara ḥanān 'righteous is (thy) grace', the predicate before its noun, as kî-yāšār dəbar-YHWH 'for righteous is the word of YHWH' (Ps 33:4) and kî-yāšār YHWH 'for YHWH is righteous' (Ps 92:16). Ebla has the form as a name, a-sa-ra yašara 'the just one' (Pagan 1998, row 804). Weak point: no divider marks the boundary. One attestation. See JA-SA-SA-RA-ME and JA-SA.

## Same root

- [JA-SA-SA-RA-ME](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SA-SA-RA-ME/index.md>) (yaššaram)
- [A-SA-SA-RA-ME](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-SA-SA-RA-ME/index.md>) (ʾaššaram)
- [I-MI-SA-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-MI-SA-RA/index.md>) (Il-Mīšar)
- [JA-SA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SA/index.md>) (yašar)
- [I-DA-PA₃-I-SA-RI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-DA-PA~E2~82~83-I-SA-RI/index.md>) (ʾIdā bi-ʾišarī)
- [I-SA-RI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-SA-RI/index.md>) (ʾišarī)
- [JA-SA-SA-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SA-SA-RA/index.md>) (yaššar-)
- [JA-SA-SA-RA-MA-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SA-SA-RA-MA-NA/index.md>) (yaššaram=na)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Pagan 1998
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts

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