# RU-PI (rōpiʾ)

> healer (active participle of √r-p-ʾ), a counted entry

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

- Reading: rōpiʾ
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*rVpVʾ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0355/index.md>) 'heal'
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: RU (ru) · PI (pi)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *rōpēʾ* — rōpēʾ 'healer, physician' (Gen 50:2; HALOT 1272)
- Punic: *rpʾ* — rpʾ 'physician' (Krahmalkov 446)
- Amorite: *rāpiʾu* — rāpiʾu 'healer' (Buck 2019, 331)

## Attestations

- [PE 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PE2/index.md>): RU-PI \[…\] ¹⁄₃

## Commentary

PE 2 .2 RU-PI, then a damaged mark and ⅓, before SA-*305-MI 1⅛. rōpiʾ 'healer', the active participle of √r-p-ʾ (PS *rVpVʾ-), U for ō as in *47-KU-NA sōkina, the final ʾ unwritten. A-RI-PA ʾaripāʾ, of the same root, stands on the tablet. Weak point: the damaged mark after PI may be a lost sign. One attestation. See A-RI-PA and A-RE-PI-RE-NA.

## Same root

- [A-RI-PA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-RI-PA/index.md>) (ʾaripāʾ)
- [A-RE-PI-RE-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-RE-PI-RE-NA/index.md>) (ʾa-repiʾ-rennā)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT 1272
- Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven)
- 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
- Buck, Mary E. (2019), The Amorite Dynasty of Ugarit: Historical Implications of Linguistic and Archaeological Parallels. Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant 8,Brill, Leiden

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