# \*rVpVʾ- 'heal'

A Proto-Semitic root the Linear A Lexicon's readings rest on.

- Author's gloss: to heal, make whole; healer; ancestral shades
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/r/K0355_heal.md

## In Linear A

- [A-RE-PI-RE-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-RE-PI-RE-NA/index.md>) (ʾa-repiʾ-rennā): Healer of Jubilation (Eshmun epithet)
- [A-RI-PA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-RI-PA/index.md>) (ʾaripāʾ): healer, of the Rephaim (√r-p-ʾ); rival ʿarpa 'clouds' (√ʿ-r-p)
- [RU-PI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/RU-PI/index.md>) (rōpiʾ): healer (active participle of √r-p-ʾ), a counted entry

## Notes

Healing and the shades of the dead (Rephaim) share the root; Ugaritic rpum are divine ancestors who attend feasts.

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: rapāʾum (HALOT 1272)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Hebrew: rapaʾ; rǝpāʾîm (HALOT 1274); rpwy (DNWSI 1082) (gloss withheld) [Anderson–Moser 2024 root rpʾ]
- Punic: rpʾ; rpʾ (Krahmalkov 446); rpʔm (DNWSI 1081) (gloss withheld) [Anderson–Moser 2024 root rpʾ]
- Ugaritic: rpʾ; rpʾum (HALOT 1274; DULAT 731) (gloss withheld) [Anderson–Moser 2024 root rpʾ]
- Phoenician: rpʾm (KAI 13:7-8; HALOT 1274); rpʾ (HALOT 1272) (gloss withheld)
- Canaanite: EA ripûtu (HALOT 1274) (gloss withheld)
- Syrian Aramaic: rəpā (LGz. 463)
- Amorite: rpʾ: jirpaʾ, jarpaʾ, rapaʾ, rapaʾ(ān)um (Gelb AS 21, 30); rāpiʾu, ripʾu, rapaʾ, yarpaʾ/yirpaʾ (Buck 2019, 331); r-p-ʾ: ia-ar-pa-ᵈIM; riʾp: pí-ri-ip-i-im, ri-ip-a-DINGIR, ri-ip-a-ma-lik; rapūʾ: ra-pu-ú-um, ra-pu-a-tum (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 168–169) (gloss withheld)
- Aramaic: rpʔh (DNWSI 1082) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: rafaʾa (HALOT 1272)
- Pre-Islamic North Arabian: Safaitic rfʾ (Al-Jallad 2026, 121) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: Sab rfʾ (Biella 492; Sabaweb lemma 4885); rfʾ (SD 115; Sabaweb lemma 4885) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Geez: rafʾa (HALOT 1272)
- Tigre: rāfʾa (HALOT 1272)
- Soqotri: térof (HALOT 1272)
- Tigrinya: räfʾe (LGz. 463) (gloss withheld)

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Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit 50525edd.