sqbḥ

Egyptian

Etymology

s- (causative prefix) +‎ qbḥ (“to libate, to purify, to be cool”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛkɛbɛh/
  • Conventional anglicization: seqebeh

Verb

 caus. 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to refresh (the heart or the dead) (+ m: with (water or offerings)) [Pyramid Texts and Middle Kingdom]
2. (intransitive) to give ease (+ n: to)

Inflection

Conjugation of sqbḥ (causative triliteral / caus. 3-lit. / caus. 3rad.) — base stem: sqbḥ

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
sqbḥ	sqbḥw, sqbḥ	sqbḥt	sqbḥ	sqbḥ

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
sqbḥ	ḥr sqbḥ	m sqbḥ	r sqbḥ

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	sqbḥ.n	sqbḥw, sqbḥ	consecutive	sqbḥ.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	sqbḥt
perfective3	sqbḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	sqbḥ.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	sqbḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	sqbḥw, sqbḥ, sqbḥy	sqbḥw, sqbḥ, sqbḥy	potentialis1	sqbḥ.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	sqbḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	sqbḥ.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	sqbḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2	sqbḥ	sqbḥ, sqbḥw5, sqbḥy5
imperfective	sqbḥ, sqbḥy, sqbḥw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	sqbḥ, sqbḥj6, sqbḥy6	sqbḥ, sqbḥw5
prospective	sqbḥ, sqbḥtj7	—	sqbḥwtj1 4, sqbḥtj4, sqbḥt4
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.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sqbḥ  

sqbḥ	sqbḥ	sqbḥ
[Pyramid Texts]	[Pyramid Texts]	[Middle Kingdom]

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 305.14–305.15
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 250