Personal name · Semitic
JA-RA
Moon (personal name, after the moon god); rival yarē 'he instructs'
- Reading
- Yaraḫ
- Type
- Personal name Speculative
- Language
- Semitic Speculative
- Sites
- Knossos
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- JA-RA
Commentary
Reading from the lexicon (di Mino). Amorite JARAḪ-T-UM, IA-RA-AḪ-TUM (Gelb 1980, no. 3419).
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry JA-RA.
- Ugariticyariḫuyrḫ /yariḫu/ ‘moon, month’, byrḫ ‘in the month’ (Huehnergard 2012, 42, 87)
- AmoriteJaraḫ, divine name (Gelb 1980, glossary); JARAḪ-T-UM, IA-RA-AḪ-TUM (no. 3419)
- Hebrewיָרֵחַyārēaḥyārēaḥ (יָרֵחַ) ‘moon’, wə-yārēaḥ ʿāmād ‘and the moon stayed’ (Josh 10:13); yeraḥ (יֶרַח) ‘month’, bə-yeraḥ zīw ‘in the month Ziv’ (1 Kgs 6:37)