Personal name · Semitic
DA-NA-SI
He of Naśiʾ (personal name heading HT 126a)
- Reading
- Ḏā-Naśiʾ
- Type
- Personal name Speculative
- Language
- Semitic Speculative
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
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- Lexicon
- DA-NA-SI
Commentary
HT 126a .1 DA-NA-SI · *318 ·, heading the tablet (GORILA I 217). ḏā ‘the one of’ + Naśiʾ, the Amorite god written NA-SI, as in Niqmi-la-Naśiʾ NI-IQ-MI-LA-NA-SI (Gelb no. 5051) and Yadur-Naśiʾ IA-DU-UR-NA-SI (no. 3218); the ‘he of DN’ type of Amorite Zu-dIš-ḫa-ra (no. 6598) and DA-MI-NU. NA-SI also closes U-MI-NA-SI, the heading of HT 117a. Rival: ḏā-Nasr, the god Nasr (Q 71:23).
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry DA-NA-SI.
- AmoriteNaśiʾ DN, written NA-SI: Niqmi-la-Naśiʾ NI-IQ-MI-LA-NA-SI (Gelb no. 5051), Yadur-Naśiʾ IA-DU-UR-NA-SI (no. 3218); ḏu ‘he/she of’, written ZU (Gelb 1980, 18)
- Hebrewנָשִׂיאnāśîʾnāśîʾ נָשִׂיא ‘leader, prince’ (HALOT 727): nəśîʾ ʾĕlōhîm נְשִׂיא אֱלֹהִים ‘a prince of God’ (Gen 23:6), wə-nāśîʾ bə-ʿammǝkā lōʾ tāʾōr וְנָשִׂיא בְעַמְּךָ לֹא תָאֹר (Exod 22:27), nəśîʾê maṭṭôt נְשִׂיאֵי מַטּוֹת (Num 1:16)