TE-JA-RE
personal name, 'Merciful (god)'; rival tayyār 'trader'
- Reading
- Teyar
- Confidence
- Candidate
- Root
- *tVwVr- ‘turn’ 1, ‘go about, travel through’
- Kind
- Personal name
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
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Compared forms
- Akkadiantajjārutajjāru ‘merciful; turning back’, from târu, in names: aA Aššur-tayyār, aB Ilum-, Marduk-, Sîn-tayyār, Tayyār-ilu, hypocoristic Tayyarītum (CAD T 60; AHw 1303–1304)
- Ugaritti-ya-ru₃ Tiyaru, a man’s name (RS 14.0016 r 3, ORACC aemw/ugarit)
- Hebrewhattārîmhattārîm ‘traders’, beside rōkəlîm (1 Kgs 10:15 = 2 Chr 9:14; HALOT 1708)
- Ugaritict-rt-r ‘scour, travel through’ (DULAT 862f.; GlOS 2, 304)
Attestations1 cited
Commentary
HT 117a (Haghia Triada, Casa Room 9, LM IB): one of ten entries counted 1 each, KU-RO 10, under the heading MA-KA-RI-TE ‘merchants’, alongside KU-RA-MU Kurmu ‘Vineyard’, KU-PA₃-NU Kubānu and NA-DA-RE Nadr ‘Vow’. Ugarit has the man’s name Tiyaru, ti-ya-ru₃ (RS 14.0016 r 3); Linear B has the man’s name te-ja-ro (KN V 479). Akkadian names give the sense: tajjāru ‘merciful (god)’, from târu ‘turn, relent’, in Aššur-tayyār, Sîn-tayyār and Tayyār-ilu (AHw 1304; CAD T 60), of which Teyar is the short form; tajārtu is the god’s ‘forgiveness’, lit. ‘return’ (CAD T 59). Rival: tayyār ‘trader’, √t-w-r ‘travel about’: Heb. hattārîm ‘traders’ (1 Kgs 10:15; HALOT 1708), Ug. /t-r/ ‘to scour, travel through’ (DULAT 862–863), on the qattāl pattern of Heb. ṣayyād ‘hunter’ (√ṣ-w-d). One attestation.