# JA-SA-SA-RA-MA-NA (yaššaram=na)

> in righteousness indeed; uprightly indeed

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

- Reading: yaššaram=na
- 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) · SA (sa) · RA (ra) · MA (ma) · NA (na)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *mêšārîm* — mêšārîm 'uprightly', adverbial, Ps 58:2 (HALOT 578); yāšār (HALOT 450)
- Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎌𐎗 *mšr* — mšr (I) 'justice, justification' (DULAT 586); yšr 'uprightness' (DULAT 973)
- Akkadian: *mīšaru* — mīšaru 'redress; justice' (CAD M/2 116)
- Amorite: JŚR 'be straight': jaśar, jaśara (Gelb AS 21, 22)

## Attestations

- [KN Za 10](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KNZa10/index.md>): \]TA-NU-MU-TI JA-SA-SA-RA-MA — in righteousness indeed

## Commentary

KN Za 10 writes JA-SA-SA-RA-MA / NA across the side break without a divider, so the sequence is one graphic word. Amorite IA-SA-RA-AM attests accusative /yašaram/ (Gelb 1980, no. 3448), the Semitic manner accusative 'uprightly, in righteousness'. NA is the emphatic or topical clitic =na, as Ugaritic -n or -(Vn)na (Tropper 2000, §§89.1–2). SA-SA writes the geminate šš, as in JA-SA-SA-RA-ME. Weak point: /yaššaram=na/ is unattested outside Crete. One attestation. See JA-SA-SA-RA-ME, JA-SA-SA-RA 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-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SA-RA/index.md>) (yašara)
- [JA-SA-SA-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SA-SA-RA/index.md>) (yaššar-)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980; Tropper 2000
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Tropper, Josef (2000), Ugaritische Grammatik. Alter Orient und Altes Testament 273,Ugarit-Verlag
- CAD M/2: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1977), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 10, M, part 2. The Oriental Institute; J. J. Augustin
- 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
- 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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