# TU-\*21F-RI-NA (ṭuhārīna)

> the pure ones (adjective, masculine plural -īna), a grain and oil recipient

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

- Reading: ṭuhārīna
- Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Root: [\*ṭahar-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2660/index.md>) 'to be clean, pure'
- Kind: Ritual
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: TU (tu) · \*21F · RI (ri) · NA (na)
- Rank: #29 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *ṭohŏrâ* — ṭohŏrâ 'cleanness, purification', dəmê ṭohŏrâ 'blood of purification', Lev 12:4 (HALOT 370); ṭōhar 'purity' (HALOT 370)
- Ugaritic: 𐎉𐎅𐎗 *ṭhr* — ṭhr 'pure, sparkling' (DULAT 875)
- Phoenician: 𐤈𐤄𐤓 *ṭhr* — ṭhr 'pure' (Krahmalkov 201)
- Arabic: *ṭahura* — ṭahura 'he became pure'; ṭuhr 'pureness' (Lane 1886–1887)

## Attestations

- [HT 129](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT129/index.md>): TU-\*21F-RI-NA GRA 40 ¹⁄₂ — the pure ones (adjective, masculine plural -īna), a grain and oil recipient

## Commentary

HT 129: KI-RE-TA₂ Kret receives grain, fat and figs; TU-*21F-RI-NA, in the same slot, grain 40½ and three oils (OLE+DI 1, OLE+KI 6, OLE[). ṭuhārīna 'the pure ones', the plural of the adjective √ṭ-h-r 'pure': Ug. ṭhr /ṭuhūru/ < *ṭahūru (DULAT 875; Huehnergard 2012, 42), plural in bht ṭhrm iqnim 'a palace of the purest lapis' (KTU 1.4 V 19; DULAT 90–91); Heb. ṭāhôr (HALOT 369); Ar. al-mutaṭahhirīna 'those who purify themselves' (Q 2:222). TU writes ṭu, the u of Ug. /ṭuhūru/. -NA is the plural *-īna, which the external endings carried first on adjectives (Huehnergard 2019, 59), as on the grain recipient DI-RI-NA. Akkadian counts pure men, 7 LÚ.MEŠ KÙ.MEŠ (CAD E 104). Rival: ṭuhārī-nā 'our purification', Heb. ṭōhar 'purifying' (Lv 12:4, 6; HALOT 370), with the flour and oil of Lev 14:10, 21. Weak point: one attestation. See OLE+TU.

## Same root

- [OLE+TU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/OLE~2BTU/index.md>)

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- 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
- Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven)
- Huehnergard, John (2019), Proto-Semitic. In Huehnergard, John; Pat-El, Na‘ama (eds.), The Semitic Languages,Routledge,49–79
- 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
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- CAD E: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1958), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 4, E. The Oriental Institute, Chicago

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