Personal name · Semitic

KA-TI

personal name Qāti 'Hand'; rivals Gattī 'the man of the press, the Gittite', Qəhātî 'Kohathite', Kittî 'Kittian'

Reading
Qāti
Type
Personal name Speculative
Language
Semitic Speculative
Sites
Haghia Triada
Attestations
1
Lexicon
KA-TI

Commentary

HT 63, under the personnel logogram *305: the name Qāti ‘Hand’, as Ebla ga-ti (Pagan 1998, row 1975). Rivals: Gattī ‘the Gittite’ (DULAT 307; 2 Sam 6:10), Qəhātî ‘Kohathite’ (Num 3:27), Kittî ‘Kittian’. See the lexicon entry.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry KA-TI.

  • Eblaiteqātiga-ti /qāti/ ‘hand’, personal name (Pagan 1998, row 1975), in 6 texts (EbDA; ARET 1 15 v. 6, 2)
  • Ugaritic (rival)gittugt /gittu/ ‘wine or olive press; farmstead, estate’ (DULAT 307)
  • Hebrew (rival)gatgat ‘winepress’; gentilic hag-Gittî ‘the Gittite’ (2 Sam 6:10; 15:18 hag-Gittîm)
Linear A Lexicon