Personal name · Semitic

SI-MI-TA

personal name (f.), on √ś-y-m 'to place, fix'; rival Šimʿat

Reading: Śīmat
Type: Personal name Speculative
Language: Semitic Speculative
Sites: Haghia Triada
Attestations: 1
Lexicon: SI-MI-TA

Commentary

HT 96a .2 SI-MI-TA GRA 5, the first recipient (GORILA I 156). Śīmat, the women’s name of Amorite ŚIJM-AT-UM, ŠI-MA-TUM (Gelb no. 5893). Rival: Hebrew Šimʿat (2 Kgs 12:22). One witness.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry SI-MI-TA.

AmoriteŚIJM-AT-UM, ŠI-MA-TUM, fem.; ŚIJM-AT+DAGAN, ŠI-MA-AT-D-DA-GAN, fem. (Gelb 1980 nos. 5893, 5888)
Eblaitesi-mi-dum, śīm(a)t ‘destiny’ (GlOS 2, 282)
MariŠīmatum, ši-ma-tim, daughter of Zimri-Lim (FM IV, 283; FM V, 285)
HebrewŠimʿat, PN (2 Kgs 12:22), rival