*rpu [#m5440197] n. m.~ +"divine ancestral hero", ancestor of the Ugaritic dynasty, singly and as a group. +'''Rpu''', eponymous deity of this group. +in the expression '''mt rpi''' rpu</r-p-?/ -Hebrew '''rp?''', '''rp?ym''', HALOT 1274f. -Phoenician, Punic '''rp?m''', '''Dictionary of the North-WestSemitic Inscriptions''', 1995, 1081f. -Phoenician, Punic '''rp?m''', '''Dictionary of the North-West Semitic Inscriptions''', 1995, 1081f. -Amorite /raapi?um/, Huffmon '''Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts: A Structural and Lexical Study''', 1965, 263f. -Gelb '''Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite''', 1985, 30. -Cf. Del Olmo MLC 411ff.~ De Moor '''Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentlische Wissenschaft''' 88 1976 323ff.~ Caquot Syria 53 1976 295ff.~ Dietrich - Loretz - Sanmartin UF 8 1976 45ff.~ Pope '''Essays on the Ancient Near East in Memory of Jacob Joel Finkelstein''', 1977, 163ff.~ L'Heureux HTR 67 1974 265ff. ¶ syll. Ug.: cf. the element /raapi?(u)/ in PNN~ Sivan '''Grammatical Analysis and Glossary of the Northwest Semitic Vocables in Akkadian Texts of the 15th-13th C.B.C. from Canaan and Syria''', 1984, 264.~ ¶ par.: '''ilny''', '''mhr''', '''mlk(I)''', '''qbTs'''(+ '''ddn''').~ ¶ Forms: sg. abs./cstr./ '''rpu''', '''rpi''' pl. '''rpum''', '''rpim''', cstr. '''rpi'''. DUL, pp. 742-43.