Personal name · Semitic

A-WA-PI

personal name, 'he shone forth' (causative of w-p-ʿ 'be brilliant')

Reading
ʾAwpiʿ
Type
Personal name Speculative
Language
Semitic Speculative
Sites
Knossos
Attestations
1
Lexicon
A-WA-PI

Commentary

KN Zf 31, a silver pin, among the man’s names in the first line. A verb as a name, as Amorite Ya-a-pa-aḫ (*wpʿ ‘be brilliant’, Huffmon 1965, 212) and Ugaritic ypʿ (DULAT 958).

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry A-WA-PI.

  • Hebrewהוֹפִיעַhôpîaʿהוֹפִיעַ hôpîaʿ "shone forth" (hiphil; Deut 33:2, Ps 50:2; HALOT 424)
  • Amorite*wpʿ*wpʿ ‘be brilliant’, apart from *ypʿ ‘raise up’: Ya-a-pa-aḫ-ᵈIM, Ya-pí-iḫ-ᵈIM (Huffmon 1965, 212); yapiʕ ‘radiant’ in names (GlOS 2, 375)
  • Ugariticy-p-ʿ/y-p-ʿ/ "to go up, rise"; PN ypʿ, syll. ia-pa-ú; ypʿbʿl, ypʿmlk (DULAT 958–959)
  • Egyptiangroup writing y-w-pꜢ-ʕ, a name with the w-glide (GlOS 2, 374, after Schneider, APÄQ 53)
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