Personal name · Semitic
I-TA-JA
personal name, 'with me (is God)', hypocoristic in -aya (cf. Hebrew ʾIttay)
- Reading
- ʾIttaya
- Type
- Personal name Speculative
- Language
- Semitic Speculative
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- I-TA-JA
Commentary
Heb. ʾIttay (2 Sam 15:19); NA {m}i-ta-a-a (Schøyen 52).
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry I-TA-JA.
- HebrewʾIttay (אִתַּי), Ittai the Gittite (2 Sam 15:19; HALOT 102); Ittai son of Ribai (2 Sam 23:29)
- Old Babylonianit-ta-ia Ittāya, a woman at Kiš (de Boer 2014, 402)
- Neo-Assyrian{m}i-ta-a-a (Schøyen 52, Assur)
- Linear Bi-ta-ja, a woman (KN Ap 769.2); o-pi i-ta-ja[ (KN Od 537.3)