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Egyptian
Etymology
From ḥr (“upon”) + jb (“heart, mind”).
Pronunciation
Preposition
- in the midst of
- in the opinion of
c. 1859 BCE – 1800 BCE,
The Eloquent Peasant, version B2 (pAmherst 2 and pBerlin 3025) lines 131–132:
- wn.jn nfr st ḥr jb r ḫ nbt ntt m tꜣ pn r ḏr.f
- Then it was more pleasing in his opinion than anything that is in this entire land.
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥr jb
References
- “ḥr-jb (lemma ID 852976)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, 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, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 59.12
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 137.1–137.14
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 174
- Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 96