# SA-RE-JU (Šarr-ēlu)

> personal name, 'El is king'; rival Hurrian Šar-elli

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

- Reading: Šarr-ēlu
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ŝarr-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3463/index.md>) 'king, prince, official' + [\*ʾil-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2719/index.md>) 'god, deity; El (supreme god)'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: SA (sa) · RE (re) · JU (ju)

## Compared forms

- Amorite: ŚARR-A+ʾIL, ŠAR-RA-DINGIR, Alalakh IV (Gelb 1980 no. 5846)
- Ugaritic: 𐎌𐎗 *šr* — šr (III) 'Prince, Sovereign', divine title: [š]lm ỉl šr (KTU 1.123:3; DULAT 829)
- Hebrew: Malkîʾēl, the same sentence with mlk (Gen 46:17)
- Hurrian: Šar-elli, the queen ṯryl, syll. šar-e-li (DULAT s.v. ṯryl; Laroche GLH 78), rival

## Attestations

- [HT 20](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT20/index.md>): SA-RE-JU ¹⁄₈ — personal name, 'El is king', ⅛; rival Hurrian Šar-elli

## Commentary

HT 20 .4 SA-RE-JU ⅛, after CAPm ⅛ and before TELA, in the list under PA-RO-SU beside KU-MA-JU and QE-KU-RE (GORILA I 36–37). ša-r(ʾ)ē-lu sign for sign: JU writes lu, the nominative of ʾēlu, and RE carries the ē once the ʾ drops at the join. Ugaritic šr 'Prince, Sovereign' is El's title in ỉl šr 'El, the Sovereign' (KTU 1.123:3; DULAT 829). Rival: Hurrian Šar-elli, syll. šar-e-li (DULAT s.v. ṯryl; Laroche GLH 78), whose -li mismatches JU. One witness. See SA-RU, I-RA₂, PI-RU-E-JU and DI-NA-RO.

## Same root

- [SA-RA₂](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SA-RA~E2~82~82/index.md>) (šarra)
- [SA-RU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SA-RU/index.md>) (šarru)
- [SA-RO](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SA-RO/index.md>) (šarr)
- [DI-NA-RO](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DI-NA-RO/index.md>) (Dānīlo / Dānīlu)
- [SA-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SA-RA/index.md>) (šarra)
- [I-RA₂](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-RA~E2~82~82/index.md>) (ʾilā(t))
- [PI-RU-E-JU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PI-RU-E-JU/index.md>) (Pirʾu-ʾēlu)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980; DULAT; Laroche
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- GLH: Laroche, Emmanuel (1980), Glossaire de la langue hourrite. Editions Klincksieck
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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