# RA-\*314-RA (Raḥil)

> personal name, 'Ewe' (√r-ḥ-l), as Hebrew Rāḥēl; rival Egyptian Ḥr-Rꜥ 'Horus-Ra'

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

- Reading: Raḥil
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*raḫil-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2267/index.md>) 'ewe'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: RA (ra) · \*314 · RA (ra)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *rāḥēl* — rāḥēl 'ewe'; Rāḥēl, PN, Gen 29:6 (HALOT 1216)
- Akkadian: *laḫru* — laḫru 'ewe, full-grown female sheep', with metathesis (CAD L 42)
- Arabic: riḫl, raḫil 'ewe-lamb' (Lane 1059)

## Attestations

- [HT Wc 3006](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWc3006/index.md>): WA-O-MI RA-\*314-RA

## Commentary

HT Wc 3006, a roundel: WA-O-MI / RA-*314-RA, no logogram. raḥil 'ewe', Heb. rāḥēl 'ewe' (HALOT 1216) and the name Rachel (Gen 29:6); *314 writes the ḥ, RA the final l as in KU-RO kull. Rivals: the commodity 'ewe'; Egyptian ḥr-rꜥ 'Horus-Ra' (Ranke I, 249.15; PNM v6, personal_names_id 142609473), Horus first. One attestation.

## In the onomasticon

- [RA-\*314-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/RA-*314-RA/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT; Ranke; Ilin-Tomich 2025
- 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
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- CAD L: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1973), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 9, L. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- PNM: Ilin-Tomich, Alexander (2025), Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom (PNM), version 6. Zenodo (Freie Universität Berlin); CC BY 4.0

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