# SI-KI-RA (Śikira)

> personal name, 'Hired' (√ś-k-r 'to hire'); rival šēkār 'strong drink'

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

- Reading: Śikira
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*śVkVr-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0481/index.md>) 'hire'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: SI (si) · KI (ki) · RA (ra)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: *š-k-r* — /š-k-r/ (I) 'to hire out' (DULAT 804)
- Hebrew: *śākîr* — śākîr 'hired labourer' (HALOT 1327); śākār 'wages, reward' (HALOT 1331); šēkār 'intoxicating drink, beer' (HALOT 1501), the rival
- Amorite: Sa-ki-rum, Mari (Huffmon 1965, 54), under škr 'hire, reward, favor' (Huffmon 1965, 245)

## Attestations

- [HT 8a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT8a/index.md>): SI-KI-RA ¹⁄₄ — personal name, 'Hired' (√ś-k-r); recipient of KI-oil ¼; rival šēkār 'strong drink'

## Commentary

HT 8a: JE-DI · OLE+KI 10, then PA₃-KA-RA-TI 1½, PA 3½, TE-*301 2, QA-*310-I ¾, SI-KI-RA ¼, KI-RE-TA-NA ½; a recipient of KI-oil beside Tēnā 'Fig', the smith and the Cretan. √ś-k-r 'to hire' (Ug. /š-k-r/ I, DULAT 804; Heb. śākār 'wages', HALOT 1330): at Mari Sa-ki-rum and the woman's name Sa-ki-ra, under *škr 'hire, reward, favor' (Huffmon, APNM 245–46), Sa-ki-rum compared to Hebrew śākîr 'hired; hireling' (APNM 145); Gelb, AS 21, no. 5400 ŠAKIR-U (SA-KI-RU). Rival: Hebrew שֵׁכָר šēkār 'strong drink' (HALOT 1501; Lev 10:9), √š-k-r 'to become intoxicated' (Ug. /š-k-r/ II, DULAT 804). A-SI-KI-RA (KH 20) stands in the entry slot before CYP+E, parallel to ]DU-RE-ZA. One witness.

## Same root

- [A-SI-KI-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-SI-KI-RA/index.md>) (ha-Śikira)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- APNM: Huffmon, Herbert B. (1965), Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts: A Structural and Lexical Study. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore
- 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
- 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

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