# KU-RE-JU (Kulelu)

> Kulelu (personal name; cf. Middle Assyrian Kulilu)

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

- Reading: Kulelu
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*kʷall-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2418/index.md>) 'all' 1, 'to complete, make perfect' 2, 'to surround, encircle; to crown' 3
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KU (ku) · RE (re) · JU (ju)
- Rank: Amorite-linked appendix

## Compared forms

- Middle Assyrian: Kulilu, written {m}ki-li-lu, T 98-038 obv. 4', Dunni-Aššur/Tell Sabi Abyad (ORACC P532066)
- Neo-Assyrian: Kullulu, written {1}ku-lu-lu, SAA 6 22 rev. 9'
- Amorite: KU-LA-IL-E and KI+L-I+IL (secondary k-l-l name-family comparisons; Gelb, AS 21 nos. 4114, 4065–66)
- Ugaritic: 𐎋𐎍𐎍 *kll* — kll 'entirety, everything'
- Hebrew: כָּלַל *kālal* — kālal (כָּלַל) 'to complete, perfect'; kalīl 'entire, whole (offering)'
- Akkadian: *kalû* — kalû 'all, entirety'; kilīlu 'circlet, wreath'

## Attestations

- [HT 39](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT39/index.md>): KU-RE-JU 8
- [HT 117b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT117b/index.md>): KU-RE-JU 1 — personal name

## Commentary

The HT 117b roster, headed *21F-TU-NE, fixes the personal-name slot, KU-RE-JU 1 before DI-KI-SE 1; on HT 39 KU-RE-JU takes 8. With R/L neutralization and JU = lu, the spelling writes Kulelu. The strongest external formal parallel is the Middle Assyrian personal name Kulilu, written {m}ki-li-lu at Dunni-Aššur (Tell Sabi Abyad), T 98-038 obv. 4' (ORACC tcma/tsa1, P532066). The later personal name Kullulu is written {1}ku-lu-lu in SAA 6 22 rev. 9'. Amorite KU-LA-IL-E belongs to the same k-l-l family (Gelb 1980, no. 4114). Rival: kᵉlûlâ 'betrothal, being a bride' (Jer 2:2; HALOT 478), as the pair of *21F-TU-NE 'bridegroom' on HT 117b; the quantity 8 on HT 39 and DI-KI-SE, a name in the same layout, favour a name. Both readings take JU = lu.

## Same root

- [KU-RO](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KU-RO/index.md>) (kull)
- [PO-TO-KU-RO](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PO-TO-KU-RO/index.md>) (batkull)
- [KU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KU/index.md>) (kull)
- [KU-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KU-RA/index.md>) (kulla)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980; HALOT
- ORACC: Oracc Steering Committee, Oracc: The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus. University of Pennsylvania Museum; CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise stated
- 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

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