God or goddess · Semitic
KA-NI-JA-MI
Creator of the Sea (El epithet)
- Reading
- qāniy-yammi
- Type
- God or goddess Speculative
- Language
- Semitic Speculative
- Sites
- Crete
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- KA-NI-JA-MI
Commentary
CR Zf 1. See the lexicon entry. One witness.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry KA-NI-JA-MI.
- Ugariticqnyt ʾilmqnyt ʾilm ‘Creatress of the Gods’ (KTU 1.4 III 26)—standard epithet of Athirat/Asherah
- Hebrewקֹנֵה שָׁמַיִם וָאָרֶץ qōnēh šāmayim wāʾāreṣ (Gen 14:19)—epithet of El ʿElyon; also קֹנֵה qōnēh alone as divine title
- Phoenicianʾl qn ʾrṣ ‘El Creator of the Earth’ (KAI 26 III 18, Karatepe bilingual)
- AmarnaEA 266:16—Canaanite vassal invokes qny in theophoric context
- Amoriteqanij(ān)umqanij(ān)um ‘to create’ (QNJ; Gelb 1980, glossary p. 29); names KA-NI-IA-NU qaniyānu (no. 3980), fem. QA-NI-A-TUM (no. 5196); jammum ‘sea’ in IA-AM-MU-U₂ (no. 2946)