Personal name · Semitic

RA-*314-RA

personal name, 'Ewe' (√r-ḥ-l), as Hebrew Rāḥēl; rival Egyptian Ḥr-Rꜥ 'Horus-Ra'

Reading
Raḥil
Type
Personal name Speculative
Language
Semitic Speculative
Sites
Haghia Triada
Attestations
1
Lexicon
RA-*314-RA

Commentary

raḥil ‘ewe’, Hebrew rāḥēl and the name Rachel, on a roundel without a logogram. Rival: Egyptian ḥr-rꜥ ‘Horus-Ra’ (PNM v6). See the lexicon entry.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry RA-*314-RA.

  • Hebrewrāḥēlrāḥēl ‘ewe’; Rāḥēl, PN, Gen 29:6 (HALOT 1216)
  • Akkadianlaḫrulaḫru ‘ewe, full-grown female sheep’, with metathesis (CAD L 42)
  • Arabicriḫl, raḫil ‘ewe-lamb’ (Lane 1059)
Linear A Lexicon