Proto-Semitic root
*rVpVʾ-
‘heal’
di Mino’s gloss: to heal, make whole; healer; ancestral shades
Record K0355 ↗ · Basis: kaphtor
In Linear A3 entries
Notes
Healing and the shades of the dead (Rephaim) share the root; Ugaritic rpum are divine ancestors who attend feasts.
Reflexes16 languages
East Semitic1
- Akkadianrapāʾum (HALOT 1272)
Northwest Semitic8
- Hebrewrapaʾrǝpāʾîm (HALOT 1274)rpwy (DNWSI 1082)gloss withheldAnderson–Moser 2024 root rpʾ
- Punicrpʾrpʾ (Krahmalkov 446)rpʔm (DNWSI 1081)gloss withheldAnderson–Moser 2024 root rpʾ
- Ugariticrpʾrpʾum (HALOT 1274; DULAT 731)gloss withheldAnderson–Moser 2024 root rpʾ
- Phoenicianrpʾm (KAI 13:7-8; HALOT 1274)rpʾ (HALOT 1272)gloss withheld
- CanaaniteEA ripûtu (HALOT 1274)gloss withheld
- Syrian Aramaicrəpā (LGz. 463)
- Amoriterpʾ: jirpaʾ, jarpaʾ, rapaʾ, rapaʾ(ān)um (Gelb AS 21, 30)rāpiʾu, ripʾu, rapaʾ, yarpaʾ/yirpaʾ (Buck 2019, 331)r-p-ʾ: ia-ar-pa-ᵈIMriʾp: pí-ri-ip-i-im, ri-ip-a-DINGIR, ri-ip-a-ma-likrapūʾ: ra-pu-ú-um, ra-pu-a-tum (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 168–169)gloss withheld
- Aramaicrpʔh (DNWSI 1082)gloss withheld
Arabic2
- Arabicrafaʾa (HALOT 1272)
- Pre-Islamic North ArabianSafaitic rfʾ (Al-Jallad 2026, 121)gloss withheld
Epigraphic South Arabian1
- Epigraphic South ArabianSab rfʾ (Biella 492; Sabaweb lemma 4885)rfʾ (SD 115; Sabaweb lemma 4885)gloss withheld
Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian4
- Geezrafʾa (HALOT 1272)
- Tigrerāfʾa (HALOT 1272)
- Soqotritérof (HALOT 1272)
- Tigrinyaräfʾe (LGz. 463)gloss withheld
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.