ḫft

See also: HFT

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /xɛfɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: khefet

Preposition

1. across from, opposite, facing, before (in front of)
2. (with an inanimate object) in accordance with, according to
   • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 25:

     wḏ.n n.k jt.k gbb jr.n.tw ḫft ḏdt.n.f

     Your father Geb has decreed in your favor, and it has been done according to his word (literally, “what he said”).

3. (with an infinitive as object) when, while
   • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) line 2.2:

     nj rḫ.n.tw ḫprt jrrt nṯr ḫft ḫsf.f

     One cannot know what might come to be or what the god might do when he punishes.

Usage notes

Despite the apparent glyph order, this word is read as ḫft and not **ḫtf, as its alternative writings demonstrate.

Inflection

Adverbial forms of ḫft  

ḫftw	ḫft	ḫft jrj

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḫft  

ḫft

Derived terms

• ḫftj
• ḫft jrj
• ḫft ntt
• ḫft ḥr
• ḫftt

 

Adverb

1. Abbreviated form of ḫftw (“accordingly”).

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 88.
• Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 70