Title · Semitic
QE-SU-PU
sorcerer, diviner (occupational title or PN)
- Reading
- qaššāpu
- Type
- Title Candidate
- Language
- Semitic Candidate
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- QE-SU-PU
Commentary
HT 87, a register of cult personnel, in the name slot with 1: Akkadian kaššāpu/qaššāpu ‘sorcerer’, Hebrew məkaššēp (Deut 18:10). See the lexicon entry.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry QE-SU-PU.
- Akkadiankaššāpu/qaššāpukaššāpu/qaššāpu ‘sorcerer, practitioner of witchcraft’ (Maqlû passim); kašāpu ‘to bewitch’ (CAD K 282)
- Hebrewmǝkaššēpmǝkaššēp ‘sorcerer’ (Exod 22:17, 7:11); mǝkaššēfīm = palace cult specialists (Exod 7:11); qōšēp (Deut 18:10)
- Ugaritic𐎋𐎌𐎔kšpkšp ‘sorcery’ (KTU 1.96)
- AmarnaNot attested as Canaanite gloss; but cf. EA 35:26 kaššāpu in Akkadian matrix
- Hurriankaššaptekaššapte ‘magie’, a transcription of Akkadian kaššaptu (Laroche 1980, 138)