# KO-RU (kōr)

> kor (dry measure); rival 'ram'

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

- Reading: kōr
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*kurr-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2993/index.md>) 'kor (large dry measure)'
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KO (ko) · RU (ru)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *kurru* — kurru A 'a measure of capacity' (CAD K 564)
- Hebrew: *kōr* — kōr 'kor, dry or liquid measure', šəlōšîm kōr sōlet 'thirty kor of fine flour' (1 Kgs 5:2; HALOT 496); kar 'ram' (HALOT 496), the rival

## Attestations

- [HT 23a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT23a/index.md>): KO-RU 1 — kor (dry measure)

## Commentary

HT 23a .5 · KO-RU 1, the last entry of side a after SI+ME 10, in a list of commodities with quantities (GORILA I 41). Akkadian kurru A 'a measure of capacity' (CAD K 564), Hebrew kōr (HALOT 496; 1 Kgs 5:2). Rival: Hebrew kar 'ram' (HALOT 496; Isa 16:1). One witness.

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- 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
- CAD K: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1971), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 8, K. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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