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The Phoenician Name KPR: "Young Lion" or "He Forgives"? A Rejoinder.

In a recent note, T. K. Sanders proposes that the Phoenician personal name k p ; attested on two Phoenician seals, may best be analyzed as a Dstem verbal hypocoristicon /kippir/, meaning "He forgives."' Until now, scholars have concurred in interpreting the Phoenician kpr as "young lion.lQ Sanders' study provides an opportunity to review the methodology employed for determining the meaning of personal names in general and to reconsider the meaning of Phoenician kpr in particular. The basic difficulty in the interpretation of personal and geographical names is that, as proper nouns, these are linguistic isolates whose meaning cannot be divined from their surrounding contexts? With personal names, this difficulty is palliated to the extent that often the most common and transparent lexical items are used in their construction. For example, among the Northwest Semitic languages, a personal name such as *ntn'l can only be interpreted as "God/El has given." Theophoric personal names, no doubt constituting the largest class, generally expressed sentiments,