Personal name · Semitic

JA-WA-PI

Yawpiʿ 'He has shone forth' (personal name)

Reading
Yawpiʿ
Type
Personal name Speculative
Language
Semitic Speculative
Sites
Petras
Attestations
1
Lexicon
JA-WA-PI

Commentary

First word on the PE Zb 7 vessel, closed by a divider before a broken word JA[ (RILA-S1 p. 112). No quantity follows. Amorite *wpʿ ‘be brilliant’ (Huffmon, APNM 212), MU-WPIʿ-I (Gelb 1980, no. 4729); Hebrew PN Yāpîaʿ (Josh 10:3). See the lexicon entry.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry JA-WA-PI.

  • Amorite*wpʿ*wpʿ ‘be brilliant’, kept apart from *ypʿ (Huffmon, APNM 212); MU-WPIʿ-I muwpiʿi, written mu-bi-ḫi, the causative participle (Gelb 1980, no. 4729)
  • Hebrewhôpîaʿhôpîaʿ ‘he shone forth’ (Deut 33:2); PN Yāpîaʿ (Josh 10:3; 2 Sam 5:15)
  • UgariticPN ypʿ, Yapaʿu (Kinlaw 1967, 131)
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