Personal name · Semitic

TE-JA-RE

personal name, 'Merciful (god)'; rival tayyār 'trader'

Reading
Teyar
Type
Personal name Candidate
Language
Semitic Candidate
Sites
Haghia Triada
Attestations
1
Lexicon
TE-JA-RE

Commentary

HT 117a, one of ten entries counted 1 each under MA-KA-RI-TE (KU-RO 10), before NA-DA-RE: Ugarit has the man’s name Tiyaru, ti-ya-ru₃ (RS 14.0016 r 3); Akkadian tajjāru ‘merciful (god)’ in Sîn-tayyār, Tayyār-ilu (AHw 1304). Rival: tayyār ‘trader’ (√t-w-r). See the lexicon entry. One witness.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry TE-JA-RE.

  • Akkadiantajjārutajjāru ‘merciful; turning back’, from târu, in names: aA Aššur-tayyār, aB Ilum-, Marduk-, Sîn-tayyār, Tayyār-ilu, hypocoristic Tayyarītum (CAD T 60; AHw 1303–1304)
  • Ugaritti-ya-ru₃ Tiyaru, a man’s name (RS 14.0016 r 3, ORACC aemw/ugarit)
  • Hebrewhattārîmhattārîm ‘traders’, beside rōkəlîm (1 Kgs 10:15 = 2 Chr 9:14; HALOT 1708)
  • Ugaritict-rt-r ‘scour, travel through’ (DULAT 862f.; GlOS 2, 304)
Linear A Lexicon