Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Instances of the Name Malkiyahu in the Arad Ostracon (cf. Jeremiah 38:6)

  

Arad Ostracon 40 (end of the 8th century BC):

 

1 בנכם כמר[יהו] ונח

2 מיהו שלח[ו לשלם]

3 מלכיהו ברכת[ך ליהו]ה

. . .

(Peter Bekins, Inscriptions from the World of the Bible: A Reader and Introduction to Old Northwest Semitic [Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Academic, 2020], 103)

 

מלכיהו > malkyahū (PN) ‘Yahweh-ks-king’ < malk (N → מלך) + yahū (DN). See BH מַלְכִּיָּהוּ (Jer 36:8). Note that the BH form malkīyↄhū includes an epenthetic I at the morpheme boundary, which is frequent in biblical names and should be not be interpreted as a bound 1CS pronoun. (Ibid., 104)

 

Translation

 

1 Your son Gemar[yahu], and Nehemyhau, 2 send [concerning the welfare of] 3 Malkiyahu. I bless [you by Yahw]eh. (Ibid., 106)

 

 

Arad Ostracon 24 (early 6th century BC):

 

12 מערד 50 ומקינ[ה   ]

13 ה ושלחתם אתם רמת נג[ב בי]

14 ד מלכיהו בן קרבאור והב (Peter Bekins, Inscriptions from the World of the Bible: A Reader and Introduction to Old Northwest Semitic [Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Academic, 2020], 116)

 

Translation

 

. . .

 

12 (take) from Arad 50 (men) from Qina[h   ]

13 And send them to Ramath-negev in the charge 14 of Malkiyahu son of Qarabor. (Ibid., 118)

 

  

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