ḥbs-bꜣg

Egyptian

Etymology

From ḥbs (“(one that) clothes, covers, hides”) +‎ bꜣg (“the weary”), thus ‘veiler of the weary’, with ‘the weary’ a euphemism for the dead.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛbɛs bɑɡ/
  • Conventional anglicization: hebes-bag

Proper noun

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1. a gate in the afterworld
2. the porter of this gate, a minor god
3. a cavern in the afterworld

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥbs-bꜣg  

ḥbs-bgt

[Late Period]

References

• “ḥbs-bꜣg (lemma ID 851665)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 65.12–65.14