U-JU

burnt offering

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Reading
ʿūlū
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*ʕōl-at- ‘burnt offering, holocaust’
Kind
Ritual
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Hebrewעוֹלָהʿōlâʿōlâ (עוֹלָה) ‘burnt offering’ (Lev 1)
  • Akkadianelûelû ‘to go up’
  • Ugaritic𐎓𐎍𐎊ʿlyʿly ‘to go up’
  • PhoenicianNeo-Punic ʿltNeo-Punic ʿlt ‘whole burnt offering’ (KAI 159.7/8; Krahmalkov 374)

Attestations1 cited

  1. ZA 7aU-JU 5burnt offering

Commentary

ZA 7a, a tablet: U-JU 5 · A-RA-TU 4 · A-RE-TU-MI[, a counted list. Heb. ʿōlâ ‘burnt offering’ (Lev 1:3), from √ʿ-l-h ‘go up’ (PS *ʕōl-at-); Neo-Punic ʿlt ‘whole burnt offering’ (KAI 159.7/8; Krahmalkov 2000, 374); the -t unwritten, as in *21F-*118 ḥiṭṭa. DU-JU[ (ZA 22, a tablet, beside OVISf) is a candidate from the same root.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon