# JA-SA-SA-RA (yaššar-)

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

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

- Reading: yaššar-
- 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)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *yāšār* — yāšār 'straight, upright' (HALOT 450); mêšārîm 'uprightly', mêšārîm tišpəṭû, Ps 58:2 (HALOT 578)
- Ugaritic: 𐎊𐎌𐎗 *yšr* — yšr 'uprightness, lawfulness' (DULAT 973)
- Amorite: JŚR 'be straight': jaśar, jaśara (Gelb AS 21, 22)
- Phoenician: 𐤉𐤔𐤓 *yšr* — yšr 'good, righteous' (Krahmalkov 218)

## Attestations

- [IO Za 16](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/IOZa16/index.md>): \]\*123 JA-SA-SA-RA — first 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.

## 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-MA-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SA-SA-RA-MA-NA/index.md>) (yaššaram=na)

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven)
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- 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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