bḥnj

Egyptian

4ae inf.

(transitive) to cut apart, to dismember (evil ones) (+ m: with (a knife))
(transitive) to cut off, to sever (limbs, heads, ears, etc.) [Book of the Dead and Late Period]
(transitive) to punish (evil ones) generally [since the Pyramid Texts]
(transitive) to drive off or otherwise subdue (enemies) [since the Pyramid Texts]
(transitive) to remove, to dispose of (a quarrel) [Pyramid Texts and Book of the Dead]
(transitive) to eliminate (lies) [Greco-Roman Period]
(transitive) to render (poison) harmless [Late Period]

Conjugation of bḥnj (fourth weak / 4ae inf. / IV. inf.) — base stem: bḥn, geminated stem: bḥnn

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
bḥn	bḥnw, bḥnyw, bḥn	bḥnt, bḥnwt, bḥnyt	bḥn	bḥn, bḥny

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective²		periphrastic prospective²
bḥn⁸	ḥr bḥn	m bḥn	r bḥn

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	bḥn.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	bḥnw¹, bḥny, bḥn	active + .tj¹, .tw²	bḥn	bḥny, bḥn
imperfective	bḥnn, bḥnny, bḥnnw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	bḥnn, bḥnnj⁶, bḥnny⁶	bḥnn, bḥnnw⁵
prospective	bḥnw¹, bḥny, bḥn, bḥntj⁷	—	bḥnwtj^{1 4}, bḥntj⁴, bḥnt⁴
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. Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of bḥnj

bḥnj

bḥnwj

[Pyramid Texts]

[since the Pyramid Texts]

[New Kingdom]

[Book of the Dead]

[Greco-Roman Period]

“bḥni̯ (lemma ID 56830)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 468.9–468.17
Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 83

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