mḏd

The proper noun is derived from the participle of the verb, thus perhaps meaning ‘the one who hits the mark’, ‘the true-striking’.

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛd͡ʒɛd/
  • Conventional anglicization: medjed

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to physically strike (someone or something) with an arrow or spear
2. (transitive) to physically strike with (an arrow or spear)
3. (intransitive, in fixed expressions) to hit the target when shooting arrows
4. (transitive, of fire) to meet (someone)
5. (transitive) to drive in (a stake or pale)
6. (transitive) to symbolically drive an implement, originally one’s little finger, into (the mouth) of the deceased in the Opening of the Mouth ritual
7. (transitive) to press hard on, as if to drive in
8. (transitive) to obey, to follow (an order)
9. (transitive) to practise (a virtue)
10. (transitive) to follow, to stay true to (a path)
11. (transitive) to distribute, to share out to the proper target
12. (transitive) to impose (something) as a duty in the form of corvee labor or taxes

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mḏd  

mḏd	mḏd	mḏd	mḏd	mḏd	mḏ
abbreviation	abbreviation		in hieratic

 m

1. dues or obligations in the form of corvee labor or taxes

 m

1. Medjed, a minor god mentioned in the Book of the Dead
   • c. 1478 BCE – 1397 BCE, Book of the Dead of Nu (pLondon British Museum EA 10477) chapter 17, lines 76–79:^[1]

     
     
     
     

     nn hꜣy.j r ktwt.sn ḥr ntt {t}wj rḫ.kw st rḫ.kw mḏd pwy jmj.sn n(j) pr-wsjr stt m jrt.f nj mꜣ.n.tw.f pẖr.n pt m ns(rt) n(j) rꜣ.f smj ḥꜥpj nj mꜣ.n.tw.f

     I will not fall into their cauldron, for I know it, and I know of that Medjed among them of the House of Osiris who shoots from his eye without being able to be seen, with the flame of whose mouth the sky is encircled, whom Hapi announces without his being able to be seen.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mḏd  

mḏd	mḏd	mḏd

• → English: Medjed
  • → Japanese: メジェド (Mejedo)

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• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 191.14–192.9, 192.14
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 124
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• Baud, Michel (1998) “Une épithète de Rêdjedef et la prétendue tyrannie de Chéops. Étude sur la statuaire de Rêdjedef, II.” in Le Bulletin de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale, volume 98, pages 15–30