bḥnj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /bɛhɛni/
  • Conventional anglicization: beheni

Verb

 4ae inf.

1. (transitive) to cut apart, to dismember (evil ones) (+ m: with (a knife))
2. (transitive) to cut off, to sever (limbs, heads, ears, etc.) [Book of the Dead and Late Period]
3. (transitive) to punish (evil ones) generally [since the Pyramid Texts]
4. (transitive) to drive off or otherwise subdue (enemies) [since the Pyramid Texts]
5. (transitive) to remove, to dispose of (a quarrel) [Pyramid Texts and Book of the Dead]
6. (transitive) to eliminate (lies) [Greco-Roman Period]
7. (transitive) to render (poison) harmless [Late Period]

Inflection

Conjugation of bḥnj (fourth weak / 4ae inf. / IV. inf.) — base stem: bḥn, geminated stem: bḥnn

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural bḥn bḥnw, bḥnyw, bḥn bḥnt, bḥnwt, bḥnyt bḥn bḥn, bḥny ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 bḥn8 ḥr bḥn m bḥn r bḥn suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect bḥn.n bḥnw, bḥn, bḥny consecutive bḥn.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative bḥnt perfective3 bḥn active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 bḥn.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective bḥn, bḥny active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 bḥnw, bḥn, bḥny bḥnn potentialis1 bḥn.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive bḥn, bḥny active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect bḥn.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective bḥnw1, bḥny, bḥn active + .tj1, .tw2 bḥn bḥny, bḥn imperfective bḥnn, bḥnny, bḥnnw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 bḥnn, bḥnnj6, bḥnny6 bḥnn, bḥnnw5 prospective bḥnw1, bḥny, bḥn, bḥntj7 — bḥnwtj1 4, bḥntj4, bḥnt4 1 Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. 2 Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. 3 Archaic or greatly restricted in usage by Middle Egyptian. The perfect has mostly taken over the functions of the perfective, and the subjunctive and periphrastic prospective have mostly replaced the prospective. 4 Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. 5 Only in the masculine singular. 6 Only in the masculine. 7 Only in the feminine. 8 Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of bḥnj  

bḥnj	bḥnj	bḥnj	bḥnj	bḥnj	bḥnj	bḥnwj
[Pyramid Texts]	[since the Pyramid Texts]	[New Kingdom]	[Book of the Dead]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]

Derived terms

• bḥn
• bḥnt

References

• “bḥni̯ (lemma ID 56830)”, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 468.9–468.17
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 83