From nfrw(“beauty”) + sbk(“Sobek”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘the beauty of Sobek’. The written form demonstrates honorific transposition. Some authors instead read the name without transposition as sbk-nfrw(“Sobek is perfect”), following the later Greek form Σκεμίοφρις(Skemíophris), but others consider this order of elements a later development.
