# JA-SA-SA-RA-ME (yaššaram) > in righteousness (adverbial accusative in -am of √y-š-r; also 'righteously'); rival: substantivized "the upright/proper \[thing\]" in an object slot. Polysemic layer: masculine divine name Yasharam (Akk. Mīšarum, Phoen. Misor) A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: yaššaram - Confidence: Confirmed. The function is fixed inside the corpus (position, arithmetic, commodity signs). The etymology may still be a proposal. - Root: [\*yašar-]() 'straight' - Kind: Ritual - Language: Semitic - Signs: JA (ja) · SA (sa) · SA (sa) · RA (ra) · ME (me) - Rank: #4 of the top 100 ## Compared forms - Hebrew: יָשָׁר *yāšār* — yāšār (יָשָׁר) 'upright, straight, righteous' (Deut 32:4, Ps 119:137, 1 Kgs 9:4, Prov 2:7); yōšer (יֹשֶׁר) 'uprightness, equity' (Ps 111:8, Prov 2:13); √y-š-r 'to be straight'; Yeshurun (יְשֻׁרוּן) poetic name for Israel = 'the upright one' (Deut 32:15, 33:5, 33:26, Isa 44:2); cf. Num 23:10 yĕšārīm (Balaam's pun on Yeshurun) - Ugaritic: 𐎊𐎌𐎗 *yšr* — yšr 'straight, upright' (DULAT 973); yšr in ritual context = moral/cultic fitness - Akkadian: *ešēru* — ešēru 'to be/go straight, prosper' (CAD E 354); išaru 'straight, just, normal'; mīšaru 'justice, equity' (CAD M/II 116)—Hammurabi's mīšarum edicts: royal debt-release decrees that 'set things straight' - Arabic: يسر *yasara* — yasara (يسر) 'to be easy, smooth'; yasār 'ease, prosperity' ## Attestations - [IO Za 2](): A-TA-I-\*301-WA-JA JA-DI-KI-TU JA-SA-SA-RA-\[ME\] \[U-NA-KA-NA\]-SI I-PI-NA-MA — in righteousness - [IO Za 6](): TA-NA-I-\*301-U-TI-NU I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA JA-SA-SA-RA-ME — uprightly (accusative -am, √y-š-r) - [IO Za 9](): JA-SA-SA-\[RA-ME\] — in righteousness (adverbial accusative, √y-š-r) - [IO Za 12](): \[?\]-\[?\] JA-SA-SA-RA-ME I-TI — in righteousness (adverbial accusative -am, √y-š-r) - [TL Za 1](): JA-SA-SA-RA-ME U-NA-KA-NA-SI\[…\] — in righteousness (adverbial accusative -am, √y-š-r) - [PS Za 2](): TA-NA-I-\*301-(TI/E) \[…\]-JA-(TI/E) JA-SA-SA-RA-ME — uprightly (accusative -am, √y-š-r) - [PK Za 14](): \]-TU-ME-I JA-SA-SA-\[ — unread - [PK Za 27](): \[…\] JA-SA-SA-RA-ME Ụ-NA-KA-\[ — in righteousness (adverbial accusative, √y-š-r) ## Commentary √y-š-r 'to be straight, upright, righteous.' SA writes š (cf. SA-SA-ME sesame on HT 23a: LB sa-sa-ma, Ug. ššmn); SA-SA writes the geminate šš (di Mino, Ya Diktu); the same root takes one SA, with no gemination written, in JA-SA-RA (KN Zc 7) and I-MI-SA-RA (HT 27a). RA writes the accusative -am, against RU for nominative -um, and ME the mimation: yaššaram 'in righteousness', as Amorite JAŚAR-AM, IA-SA-RA-AM, classed accusative (Gelb 1980, no. 3448). Rival: the object of the verb, 'an offering, a gift, a dedication' (Davis 2026, 55; Thomas 2020). Whole on IO Za 6 (GORILA V 25), PS Za 2 (IV 54), TL Za 1 (IV 59) and IO Za 12, one line, second SA and ME dotted (Karetsou, Godart and Olivier, Kadmos 24, 1985, 143); IO Za 2 has JA-SA-SA-RA-[, ME restored by GORILA (V 19), IO Za 9 ]JA-SA-SA-, RA-ME restored (V 33), and PK Za 14 JA-SA-SA-[ at the broken edge (IV 40). Cf. PL Zf 1 JA-SA-SA-RA-[ME?], a damaged vertical trace after RA; SAM Wa 1 (Samothrace) JA-SA SA-RA, without -ME, on a nodule with TE 10 ¹⁄₁₆; and KH Zc 106 ]-SA-SA-RA-MI (RILA-S1), broken before SA, the formula in LM IIIA1 with MI for ME. ## Same root - [A-SA-SA-RA-ME]() (ʾaššaram) - [I-MI-SA-RA]() (Il-Mīšar) - [JA-SA]() (yašar) - [I-DA-PA₃-I-SA-RI]() (ʾIdā bi-ʾišarī) - [I-SA-RI]() (ʾišarī) - [JA-SA-RA]() (yašara) - [JA-SA-SA-RA]() (yaššar-) - [JA-SA-SA-RA-MA-NA]() (yaššaram=na) ## References - Reading: Gordon 1966; di Mino; Gelb 1980; Davis 2026; Thomas 2020; GORILA - Gordon, Cyrus H. (1966), Evidence for the Minoan Language. Ventnor Publishers,68 - Thomas, Rose (2020), Some Reflections on Morphology in the Language of the Linear A Libation Formula. Kadmos,59,1–23 - AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago - GORILA V: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1985), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 5: Addenda, corrigenda, concordances, index et planches des signes (GORILA V). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 5); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris - 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 - 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 - Davis, Brent (2026), Recent Linguistics-Based Advances in the Study of Linear A. In E. Salgarella & V. Petrakis (eds.), The Wor(l)ds of Linear A, AURA Supplement 15, pp. 43–60 - CAD E: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1958), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 4, E. The Oriental Institute, Chicago - Ya Diktu: di Mino, Tom (2026), Ya Diktu: Grammar of the Minoan Peak Sanctuary Libation Formula. Minoan Mystery, online,46 pp. --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SA-SA-RA-ME/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit 50525edd.