# KO-JA (Qōya)

> personal name, Amorite type (quwy- 'wait for, hope'); rival 'be strong'

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

- Reading: Qōya
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ḳVw-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1678/index.md>) 'remain' 1, 'wait' 2
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KO (ko) · JA (ja)
- Rank: Amorite-linked appendix

## Compared forms

- Amorite: Gelb AS 21 root QWJ (unglossed): Quwyum KU-IA-UM (no. 4109), KU-WU-UM (no. 4188); -at- form Kuyatum KU-IA-TUM (no. 4108); theophorics Quwi-Dagan KU-U₂-D-DA-GAN (no. 4145), Quwi-Haddu KU-U₂-D-IM (no. 4146, Mari), Quwi-Yaraḫ KU-WE-RA-AH (no. 4187), KU-UM-D-U (no. 4162, Ugarit MRS XVI 9:7)
- Hebrew: קָוָה *qāwāh* — קָוָה qāwāh 'wait for, hope' (HALOT 1082); קַוֵּה אֶל־יְהוָה 'wait for YHWH' (Ps 27:14)
- Akkadian: *quʾʾû* — quʾʾû 'to wait' (CAD Q 328)
- Arabic: قوي *qawiya* — قوي qawiya 'be strong' (Lane 2997)

## Attestations

- [HT 119](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT119/index.md>): KO-JA 10 — personal name, Amorite type (element quwy- 'hope' or 'be strong')

## Commentary

HT 119 KO-JA 10, after RI-MI-SI 13, in a personnel list (Scribe 9). Qōya, a hypocoristic on qōy-, quy- with -a, the Amorite -ya type, from qwy 'wait for, hope': Amorite Quwi-Haddu, imperative and divine name (Gelb 1980, no. 4146); Heb. qāwāh 'wait for, hope' (HALOT 1082), as qawwēh ʾel-YHWH 'wait for YHWH' (Ps 27:14); Akk. quʾʾû 'to wait' (CAD Q 328). Cuneiform has no o, so Gelb's KU- spellings fit qō as well as qu; KO writes qō from *qaw- with aw > ō, or qu, as RO writes ru in SA-RO beside SA-RU šarru. Rival: 'be strong', Arab. qawiya (Lane 2997). Weak point: two signs, one witness. See JA-KU and JA-KU-TI.

## Same root

- [JA-KU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-KU/index.md>) (Yaqū)
- [JA-KU-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-KU-TI/index.md>) (Yaqūti)

## In the onomasticon

- [KO-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/KO-JA/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980; HALOT; CAD Q; Lane
- 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
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- CAD Q: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1982), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 13, Q. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt

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