Personal name · Semitic
RI-TA-MA
personal name, 'broom (bush)'
- Reading
- Ritmā
- Type
- Personal name Speculative
- Language
- Semitic Speculative
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- RI-TA-MA
Commentary
HT 115a .1–2 RỊ-TẠ-MẠ · NU-WI 2, all three signs underdotted (GORILA I 189). Ritmā, √r-t-m ‘broom’: Hebrew Ritmâ, a wilderness encampment (Num 33:18); Arabian PN rtm (Harding 1971, 269). See the lexicon entry.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry RI-TA-MA.
- Hebrewrōtemrōtem ‘broom’ (1 Kgs 19:4); Ritmâ, a wilderness encampment (Num 33:18)
- ArabianPN rtm, ‘ratam, broom (plant)’ (Harding 1971, 269)