Personal name · Semitic

SA-RE-JU

personal name, 'El is king'; rival Hurrian Šar-elli

Reading: Šarr-ēlu
Type: Personal name Speculative
Language: Semitic Speculative
Sites: Haghia Triada
Attestations: 1
Lexicon: SA-RE-JU

Commentary

HT 20 .4 SA-RE-JU ⅛, in the list under PA-RO-SU beside KU-MA-JU and QE-KU-RE (GORILA I 36–37). Šarr-ēlu ‘El is king’: ŚARR-A+ʾIL, ŠAR-RA-DINGIR, Alalakh IV (Gelb no. 5846). Rival: Hurrian Šar-elli, syll. šar-e-li (DULAT s.v. ṯryl). One witness.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry SA-RE-JU.

AmoriteŚARR-A+ʾIL, ŠAR-RA-DINGIR, Alalakh IV (Gelb 1980 no. 5846)
Ugaritic𐎌𐎗šršr (III) ‘Prince, Sovereign’, divine title: [š]lm ỉl šr (KTU 1.123:3; DULAT 829)
HebrewMalkîʾēl, the same sentence with mlk (Gen 46:17)
HurrianŠar-elli, the queen ṯryl, syll. šar-e-li (DULAT s.v. ṯryl; Laroche GLH 78), rival