# PU₂-RE-JA (burē(t)yā)

> my Creatress (divine epithet)

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

- Reading: burē(t)yā
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*bVraʾ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1173/index.md>) 'create'
- Kind: Divine
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: PU₂ (pu₂) · RE (re) · JA (ja)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: בָּרָא *bārāʾ* — בָּרָא bārāʾ "to create"
- Arabic: *baraʾa* — baraʾa "to create"
- Akkadian: *banû* — banû "to create" (semantic parallel)

## Attestations

- [ZA Zb 34](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZAZb34/index.md>): \]PU₂-RE-JA KO-MU RU-DI\[ — my Creatress (divine epithet)
- [PK Za 16](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PKZa16/index.md>): \]TO-SA PU₂-RE-JA\[

## Commentary

ZA Zb 34, a Zakros clay vessel: ]PU₂-RE-JẠ · KỌ-MỤ · RỤ-DI[ (GORILA IV 115); PU₂ is damaged at the fracture, the word whole. burē(t)yā 'my Creatress', addressed by the feminine imperative RU-DI: Heb. bārāʾ 'to create' (Gen 1:1), Arb. baraʾa 'to create (God)' (HALOT 153); PU₂ writes bu, as in DU-PU₂-RE dubur, the final ʾ unwritten, and -JA is the 1cs suffix -yā 'my'. The feminine -t is unwritten before -yā, as in A-TA-NA-JE 'my ʾAtanat' beside A-TA-NA-TE; it is omissible in West Semitic names of the second millennium (Astour 1966, 315). PK Za 16 ]TO-SA · PỤ₂-RE-JẠ ]vest.[ (GORILA IV 42) is a second witness, the word whole, traces following after a damaged stretch. Rivals: PU₂-RE + -JA; √p-r-y 'fruit', *puriyya. See A-PA-RA-NE.

## In the onomasticon

- [PU₂-RE-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/PU~E2~82~82-RE-JA/index.md>): God or goddess, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT; Astour 1966
- Astour, Michael C. (1966), Some New Divine Names from Ugarit. Journal of the American Oriental Society,86(3),277–284
- Astour, Michael C. (1966), Aegean Place-Names in an Egyptian Inscription. American Journal of Archaeology,70.4,313–317
- 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
- GORILA IV: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1982), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 4: Autres documents (GORILA IV). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 4); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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