jp-jb
Appearance
Egyptian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ip ib/
- Conventional anglicization: ip-ib
Adjective
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Inflection
[edit]Declension of jp-jb
Proper noun
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m
- epithet for the god Thoth, and occasionally other gods [Greco-Roman Period]
Alternative forms
[edit]Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jp-jb
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as an epithet for Thoth |
References
[edit]- “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