SA-RU

HT 86a and 86b (A-KA-RU · KU-NI-SU GRA+K+L 20, SA-RU 20, DI-DE-RU 20, QA-RA₂-WA 10), HT 95a (DA-DU-MA-TA · GRA, SA-RU 20 among DA-ME, MI-NU-TE, KU-NI-SU, DI-DE-RU and QE-RA₂-U) and HT 95b (A-DU · SA-RU 10, the same list): an entry in grain lists. HT 123+124a SA-RU OLIV 16, *308 4, beside KI-TA-I, PU-VIN and DA-TU; HT 94b SA-RU 1, one of five entries totalled KU-RO 5. šarru ‘king’, Akk. šarru (CAD Š/2 76), Heb. śar ‘official, prince’ (HALOT 1350): a title or category. Rivals: Ug. srn ‘prince’ (DULAT 759) and Heb. sərānîm, the governors of the five Philistine cities (HALOT 770); śaʿru ‘barley’ (Woudhuizen 2016, 226; Heb. śəʿōrâ, Ug. šʿrm, Old Aramaic šʿrh), ʿ unwritten, a grain kind beside QE-RA₂-U ‘parched grain’, which fits the four grain lists but not the olive and roster entries. See SA-RA.