ḥtp

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛtɛp/, /hotɛp/
  • Conventional anglicization: hetep, hotep

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) content or satisfied (+ ḥr or m or (rarely, Late Period) r or (rarely, Greco-Roman Period) n: with)
   • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.8–1.9:

     jr swrj.k ḥnꜥ tḫw šzp.k jw jb.f ḥtp.w

     If you drink with a drunkard, you should partake when his heart is satisfied.

2. (transitive, rare) to be(come) content or satisifed with
3. (intransitive) to be(come) propitious, gracious, favorable, not hostile (+ n: to)
4. (intransitive) to be(come) peaceful
   1. (intransitive) to be(come) peaceable, pacified, propitiated, not hostile (+ n: to)
   2. (intransitive) to reconcile with each other, to come to terms, to make peace
   3. (intransitive, of a besieged city) to surrender (+ n: to)
   4. (intransitive, of natural phenomena) to be(come) peaceful, calm, not stormy or raging
   5. (intransitive, of years) to be(come) peaceful, not characterized by war
5. (intransitive) to (come to) rest, to settle, to (stop and) rest (+ m: in, at (a place); ḥr: upon)
6. (intransitive, with r) to come to, to get to (a place)
7. (transitive) to assume, to take (a seat or place)
8. (transitive) to settle at, in, or on; to rest at (a place)
9. (intransitive, of celestial bodies) to set (+ m: on (the horizon), in (the west), etc.)

   Antonym: wbn

10. (transitive, rare) to satisfy, to make content
11. (transitive, rare) to reconcile (hostile parties) with each other

Inflection

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥtp  

ḥtp	ḥtp	ḥtp	ḥtp	ḥpt
	uncommon	in hieratic	especially in hieratic	occasionally

Derived terms

Descendants

• Demotic: ḥtp
  • Coptic: ϩⲱⲧⲡ̄ (hōtp̄), ϩⲱⲡⲧ̄ (hōpt̄)
• → English: hotep

Noun

 m

1. peace, lack of war or hostility
   • 12th Dynasty, Stela of Amenemhat, British Museum, Egyptian Antiquities, E567:

     ḏd.t(w) n.f jjw m ḥtp jn wrw nw ꜣbḏw

     May "welcome in peace" be said to him by the great of Abydos.

2. contentment, satisfaction
3. graciousness, favorableness, mercy

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥtp  

ḥtp	ḥtp	ḥtp	ḥtpw	ḥtp
especially in the sense ‘graciousness’	in the sense ‘graciousness’

Derived terms

Noun

 m

1. offering table, altar

Inflection

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥtp  

ḥtp	ḥtp	ḥtp	ḥtp	ḥtp	ḥtp

Noun

 m

1. offering, sacrifice, especially of food
   • 12th Dynasty, Coffin of Nakht (PM 5999):

     ḥtp ḏj nswt wsjr nb-ḏdw nṯr-ꜥꜣ nb-ꜣbḏw

     An offering given by the king and Osiris, the Lord of Djedu, the Elder God, the Lord of Abydos

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥtp  

ḥtp	ḥtp	ḥtp	ḥtp	ḥtp	ḥtpw	ḥtp	ḥtp
							in compounds

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥtp  

ḥtp	ḥtp	ḥtp	ḥpt	ḥtp	ḥtp	ḥtp	ḥtpw
			occasionally

Derived terms

Proper noun

 m

1. a male given name, Hetep or Hotep

References

• “ḥtp (lemma ID 111230)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
• “ḥtp.w (lemma ID 111260)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
• “ḥtp (lemma ID 111250)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
• “ḥtp (lemma ID 111210)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
• “ḥtp (lemma ID 854532)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
• “ḥtp (lemma ID 400024)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 183.4–183.7, 184.6–185.4, 185.21–192.10, 192.17–194.4, 194.7–194.9
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 179–180
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 274.