Personal name · Semitic

A-SI-KI-RA

personal name, 'the Hired' (article ha- + SI-KI-RA); rival haśkira 'he rewarded'

Reading
ha-Śikira
Type
Personal name Speculative
Language
Semitic Speculative
Sites
Khania
Attestations
1
Lexicon
A-SI-KI-RA

Commentary

KH 20 .1 A-SI-KI-RA · CYP+E ⅓, parallel to ]DU-RE-ZA (GORILA III 51). ha-Śikira ‘the Hired’: the article ha- + SI-KI-RA (HT 8a), √ś-k-r ‘to hire’. Rival: haśkira ‘he rewarded’, and the Amorite DN ʾAškur (Gelb nos. 947, 950). One witness.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry A-SI-KI-RA.

  • Ugariticš-k-r/š-k-r/ I ‘to hire’ (DULAT 804)
  • HebrewŚākār, PN (1 Chr 11:35); names with the article, haq-Qôṣ (1 Chr 24:10), hal-Lôḥēš (Neh 3:12)
  • AmoriteʾAškur, DN, AŠ-KU-RA-AN, AŠ-KUR-ᵈIM (Gelb 1980 nos. 947, 950), ‘of uncertain origin’ (Huffmon, APNM 172), rival
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