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
Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. 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. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular Only in the masculine. Only in the feminine. 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