sqbḥ

Egyptian[edit]

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

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

caus. 3-lit.

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

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	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	—	sqbḥwtj^{1 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 hieroglyphic writings of sqbḥ

sqbḥ

[Pyramid Texts]

[Middle Kingdom]

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