# SE-\*305 (ṣēdā)

> provisions (section heading); same word as SI-DA-TE ṣēdat

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

- Reading: ṣēdā
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ṣyd ~ \*zwd](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3505/index.md>) 'provisions for a journey; to provision'
- Kind: Administrative
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: SE (se) · \*305

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *ṣēdâ* — ṣēdâ 'provisions': lātēt lāhem ṣēdâ laddārek 'to give them provisions for the way' (Gen 42:25); lāqaḥat ṣēdâ lāʿām 'to fetch provisions for the people' (Judg 20:10)
- Ugaritic: *ṣēdu* — ṣd /ṣēdu/ 'provisions, sustenance': bn dgn b-m ṣdk 'son of Dagan, with your provisions' (KTU 1.14 II 25–26; Huehnergard 2012, 130)

## Attestations

- [KH 7a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH7a/index.md>): SE-\*305 — provisions (section heading)

## Commentary

KH 7a .4 SE-*305 ·, whole, heading the third section, KU-[·]-KO-E VIR+*313b [ ]18 / CYP+D 1, in the slot of E-NA-SI ʾenāš and I-JA-PA-ME · TA-TA (GORILA III 29). ṣē-dā, √ṣ-y-d 'provisions': Heb. ṣêdâ 'provisions for a journey' (HALOT 1021), Ug. ṣd /ṣēdu/ 'provisions, sustenance' (Huehnergard 2012, 156). The heading word of SI-DA-TE ṣēdat (ARKH 2) and MA-SI-DU maṣīdu (HT 43). Rival: the name of the section's leader. One witness.

## Same root

- [MA-SI-DU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/MA-SI-DU/index.md>) (maṣīdu)
- [SE-DE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SE-DE/index.md>) (ṣēd)
- [SI-DA-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SI-DA-TE/index.md>) (ṣēdat)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Huehnergard 2012
- 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
- Huehnergard, John (2012), An Introduction to Ugaritic. Hendrickson
- 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
- GORILA III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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