Title · Semitic

I-KI-RA

farmer, tenant farmer (occupational title)

Reading
ikkara
Type
Title Speculative
Language
Semitic Speculative
Sites
Haghia Triada
Attestations
1
Lexicon
I-KI-RA

Commentary

HT 25a, a personnel list: Akkadian ikkaru ‘plowman, farmer’ (CAD I/J 49), Hebrew ʾikkār. The same word as I-KA. See the lexicon entry.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry I-KI-RA.

  • Akkadianikkaruikkaru ‘plowman, farmer, farm bailiff’ (CAD I/J 49)
  • Hebrewʾikkārʾikkār ‘farmer, agricultural worker’, bōšû ʾikkārîm ‘the farmers were ashamed’ (Jer 14:4; HALOT 47)
  • Syriacʾakkārāʾakkārā ‘farmer’ (HALOT 47)
Linear A Lexicon