QA-MI-*47-NA-RA
personal name, 'who stands: He is fire'
- Reading
- qāmī šū-nāra
- Confidence
- Speculative
- Kind
- Personal name
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
- —
Compared forms
- AmoriteQWMQWM ‘to stand’; GA-MI-DINGIR Qawmī-ʾIl (Gelb 1980, no. 1743)
- Eblaiticšū-Xšū-X ‘he is X’: šū-ʾabu ‘he is father’, šū-nūrī ‘he is my light’ (Pagan 1998, rows 4265–4285)
- Arabicnār-nār- ‘fire’ beside nūr- ‘light’ (Kogan 2011, 195)
Attestations1 cited
- KN Zf 313D]SI[ ]SI-ZA-NE-*310 DA-DU-MI-NE QA-MI-*47-NA-RA A-WA-PI TE-SU-DE-SE-KE-I A-DA-RA TI-DI-TE-QA-TI TA-SA-ZA TA-TE-I-KE-ZA-REpersonal name, 'who stands: He is fire': qāmī, as Amorite Qawmī-ʾIl (Gelb 1980, no. 1743), + šū-nāra, the Ebla type šū-X 'he is X' (Pagan 1998); nār 'fire' against nūr 'light' in *47-NU-RA-JA
Commentary
KN Zf 31, a silver pin, first line, between DA-DU-MI-NE and A-WA-PI; whole and undotted (GORILA IV 155). QA-MI qāmī ‘who stands’, the opener of Qawmī-ʾIl. *47 = so writes šū, as in *47-NU-RA-JA Šū-nūraya (HT 115a); so for šū is a vowel mismatch only. NA-RA nār ‘fire’ against NU-RA nūr ‘light’ on HT 115a, the Arabic pair. Standing, fire and shining forth are the theophany’s: yāqûm ʾĕlōhîm ‘God arises’ (Ps 68:2); ʾĕlōhîm hôpîaʿ … ʾēš lə-pānāyw tōʾkēl ‘God shone forth … fire devours before him’ (Ps 50:2–3), and A-WA-PI ‘he shone forth’ follows. The same pin writes SU in TE-SU-DE-SE-KE-I. Rival: *47 = mo, manāra ‘lampstand’ (Ug. mnrt, DULAT 558). One attestation. See *47-KU-NA.