Personal name · Semitic
SI-KI-RA
personal name, 'Hired' (√ś-k-r 'to hire'); rival šēkār 'strong drink'
- Reading
- Śikira
- Type
- Personal name Speculative
- Language
- Semitic Speculative
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- SI-KI-RA
Commentary
HT 8a, a recipient of KI-oil ¼ between QA-*310-I and KI-RE-TA-NA, in the list with TE-*301 Tēnā ‘Fig’. Mari Sa-ki-rum and the woman’s name Sa-ki-ra, under *škr ‘hire, reward, favor’ (Huffmon, APNM 245–46). Rival: šēkār ‘strong drink’. A-SI-KI-RA (KH 20) is the same name with the article ha-. One witness.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry SI-KI-RA.
- Ugariticš-k-r/š-k-r/ (I) ‘to hire out’ (DULAT 804)
- Hebrewśākîrśākîr ‘hired labourer’ (HALOT 1327); śākār ‘wages, reward’ (HALOT 1331); šēkār ‘intoxicating drink, beer’ (HALOT 1501), the rival
- AmoriteSa-ki-rum, Mari (Huffmon 1965, 54), under škr ‘hire, reward, favor’ (Huffmon 1965, 245)