JA-SA-SA-RA

line-broken first portion of JA-SA-SA-RA-ME / yaššaram 'uprightly; in righteousness'; not independently attested as a bare lemma

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Reading
yaššar-
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*yašar- ‘straight’
Kind
Ritual
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Hebrewyāšāryāšār ‘straight, upright’ (HALOT 450); mêšārîm ‘uprightly’, mêšārîm tišpəṭû, Ps 58:2 (HALOT 578)
  • Ugaritic𐎊𐎌𐎗yšryšr ‘uprightness, lawfulness’ (DULAT 973)
  • AmoriteJŚR ‘be straight’: jaśar, jaśara (Gelb AS 21, 22)
  • Phoenician𐤉𐤔𐤓yšryšr ‘good, righteous’ (Krahmalkov 218)

Attestations1 cited

  1. IO Za 163D]*123 JA-SA-SA-RAfirst portion of yaššaram 'in righteousness'

Commentary

IO Za 16, a fragmentary square serpentine libation table from the Iouktas peak sanctuary (HM 5317), reads JA-SA-SA-RA- / -ME across a line break without a divider: the break falls inside the word, which is JA-SA-SA-RA-ME yaššaram. PK Za 4 preserves only A-SA-SA-RA-[ at a broken edge. Compare Amorite IA-SA-RA-AM (Gelb 1980, no. 3448). One attestation. See JA-SA-SA-RA-ME and JA-SA-SA-RA-MA-NA.

On the 3D inscriptions3 inscriptions

PK Za 14Palaikastroja-sa-saMatched on its surviving signsIO Za 16Mount Iouktasja-sa-sa-raPK Za 8Palaikastroja-saMatched on its surviving signs
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