jp-jb

Egyptian

Etymology

From jp (“counting, assessing, shrewd, judicious”, perfective active participle of jp (“to count, to assess, to assign, to be(come) judicious”)) +‎ jb (“heart, mind”) in a direct genitive construction, thus “shrewd of mind”. The divine epithet can alternatively be understood with jb as the object of jp, thus “(one who is) assessing the heart/mind”, “assessor of the heart/mind”.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ip ib/
  • Conventional anglicization: ip-ib

Adjective

1. shrewd, judicious, discerning, circumspect

Inflection

Declension of jp-jb

	masculine	feminine
singular	jp-jb	jpt-jb
dual	jpwj-jb	jptj-jb
plural	jpw-jb	jpwt-jb1, jpt-jb2

¹ Archaic in Middle Egyptian when modifying a noun.
² From Middle Egyptian, this feminine singular form was generally used for the plural.
In Late Egyptian, the masculine singular form was used with all nouns.

Proper noun

 m

1. epithet for the god Thoth, and occasionally other gods [Greco-Roman Period]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jp-jb  

jpj-jb

as an epithet for Thoth

References

• “jp (jb) (lemma ID 24200)” and “jp-jb (lemma ID 24210)”, 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 66.16, 66.18–66.19