KU-PA-RI
the villages, a group of men drawing grain; rival kaparrī 'junior shepherds'
Compared forms
- Hebrewkōperkōper ‘village’, wᵉʿad kōper happᵉrāzî ‘and to the village of the open country’ (1 Sam 6:18); pl. kᵉpārîm, beʿārîm ûbakkᵉpārîm ‘in the cities and in the villages’ (1 Chr 27:25)
- Akkadiankaparrukaparru ‘shepherd of low rank’: ŠE.BA 7 LÚ ka-pa-ar-ri ‘grain rations of 7 k.-shepherds’ (Chagar Bazar, AOAT 1 206 A 931:16); rations ša LÚ.NA.GADA.MEŠ u LÚ ka-pa-ar-ri (ARM 5 71:6, 14) (CAD K 177), the rival
Attestations1 cited
- PE 1KU-PA-RI VIR+[?] 50the villages, a group of men drawing grain; rival kaparrī 'junior shepherds'
Commentary
PE 1 .2 KU-PA-RI VIR 5̣0[, whole, under the heading U-KA-RE A-SE-SI-NA; .3 GRA+PA 26½; .3–4 E-KA[ VIR 72, .4–5 GRA+PA 36: grain rations at ½ unit a head, VIR 53 restored from 26½ (Younger, Linear A Texts, after Tsipopoulou & Hallager 1996, 25–30). ku-pa-rī, plural oblique of *kupr ‘village’, Hebrew kōper (1 Sam 6:18), with the a of the qutl plural, as bōqer, pl. bᵉqārîm (Lam 3:23). KA-PA kapa(r) heads VIR+[?] 62 on HT 94a in the same frame. Rival: Akkadian kaparru ‘shepherd of low rank’, whose men draw grain rations at Chagar Bazar and Mari (CAD K 177), which needs KU for ka. One witness.
On the 3D inscriptions
Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.