theophoric name
Semantic name class
- Superordinate types:
- Subordinate type:
- divine epithet used as personal name
- god appears, rises, comes, is being born
- god benefits, helps name-bearer
- god benefits, helps speaker
- god exists
- god is appeased, joyous, kindly disposed
- god is beloved by speaker
- god is fair, beautiful
- god is great, strong, powerful
- god is healthy
- god is in holiday
- god is living, enduring, awake
- god is prominent, foremost
- god is speaker’s companion
- god is third person’s companion
- god manifested in name-bearer
- name with Ꜣst
- name with Jꜥḥ
- name with Jwn-mwt⸗f
- name with Jp
- name with Jpj
- name with Jpw
- name with Jmn
- name with Jn
- name with Jn-ḥrt
- name with Jnpw
- name with Jst-jrt
- name with Jq
- name with Jgꜣj
- name with Ꜥnqt
- name with Ꜥrjjt
- name with Wꜣḏjjt
- name with Wp-wꜣwt
- name with Wn
- name with Wrt
- name with Wḫ
- name with Wsrt
- name with Bꜣstt
- name with Bꜥꜣr
- name with Pꜣḫ.t
- name with Ptḥ
- name with Mꜣj
- name with Mꜣj-ḥsꜣ
- name with Mꜣꜥt
- name with Mwt
- name with Mn-ḫpr-rꜥ
- name with Mn-ḫprw-rꜥ
- name with Mnw
- name with Mnḥtt
- name with Mnḫt
- name with Mnṯw
- name with Mḥjjt
- name with msḥ
- name with Msḫnt
- name with Mkt
- name with Mṯnw
- name with Nb-Kmwj
- name with (nb-)sšnw
- name with Nbw
- name with Nbt-ḥwt
- name with nb(t)(⸗j)
- name with Nfr-tm
- name with Nfrt
- name with Nmtj
- name with Nmtjwj
- name with Nn-nsw
- name with Nht
- name with Nḫbt
- name with Nšmt
- name with Nt
- name with nṯr(⸗j)
- name with nṯrw
- name with nṯrwj
- name with Rꜥ
- name with Rwtj
- name with Rnw
- name with Rnnwtt
- name with Rrwt
- name with Knmtj
- name with Ht
- name with Ḥj
- name with Ḥꜥpj
- name with Ḥw
- name with Ḥwt-Ḥr
- name with Ḥp
- name with Ḥmn
- name with Ḥr
- name with Ḥr-wr
- name with Ḥrj-š⸗f
- name with Ḥqt
- name with Ḥḏ-ḥtp
- name with Ḫnsw
- name with Ḫntj-ẖtjj
- name with Ḫntt-bꜣw
- name with H̱nmw
- name with H̱rtj
- name with Sbk
- name with Spdw
- name with Sn-mrj
- name with Sḫmt
- name with Sḫt
- name with Skr
- name with Stẖ
- name with Sṯjt
- name with Šꜣbt
- name with Šsmw
- name with Qjs
- name with kꜣ (bull)
- name with kꜣ-Jwnw
- name with Gbw
- name with Tp-jḥw
- name with Tfnt
- name with Tm
- name with Tḫj
- name with Ṯnj
- name with Ṯnn
- name with Ḏḥwtj
- name-bearer as god’s child
- name-bearer as god’s gift
- name-bearer belongs to god, god is name-bearer’s lord (lady)
- name-bearer is made alive, awake, enduring by god
- name-bearer loved, praised by god
- name-bearer loved, praised by king
- name-bearer protected, saved by god
- speaker is made alive, awake, enduring by god
- speaker is made fair by god
- speaker protected, saved by god
- Attestations:
- Display all people with names belonging to this type and its sub-types (attestation count: 17345)
- Usage period:
- 12th - 18th Dyn. before Amenhotep IV
- Bibliography:
- Vernus 1986c, 122-123
nfr-jmn
both
5
I, 195.1
nfr-ꜥb.wj
m
2
beautiful of both horns
nfr-ꜥnq.t
f
1
II, 298.13
nfr-wr.t
f
6
mid 12th Dynasty - Thutmose III
I, 195.26
the Pre-Eminent one (fem.) is fair
nfr-psḏ.t
m
1
nfr-ptḥ
m
1
I, 196.10
Ptah is fair
nfr-mꜣꜥ.t
both
3
I, 196.17
Maat is fair
nfr-mw.t
both
2
I, 196.20
Mut is fair
nfr-mnḫ.t
f
1
I, 196.23
Menekhet is fair
nfr-mnṯ.w
m
1
Montu is fair
nfr-mḥ.jj.t
f
5
late 12th Dynasty - Thutmose III
SUE
I, 164.7
Mehyt is fair
nfr-nb⸗f
m
1
I, 197.6
nfr-nšm.t
m
1
I, 197.15
the neshmet-bark is fair
nfr-rnw
m
1
Renu is fair
nfr-ḥw.t-ḥr
f
1
I, 198.22
Hathor is fair
nfr-ḥp.w.t-ḥw.t-ḥr
f
1
I, 198.5
nfr-ḥq.t
f
2
I, 255.28
Heqet is fair
nfr-ḥtp-ꜥnq.t
f
1
I, 198.16
the mercy of Anuket is fair
nfr-ḫꜥ
f
2
I, 199.2; I, 199.4
nfr-ḫꜥ.w
both
13
before Amenhotep II
I, 199.5
nfr-ẖnm.w
m
4
I, 199.15
Khnum is fair
nfr-sbk
f
1
I, 199.19
Sobek is fair
nfr-sḫ.t
f
1
I, 200.1
Sekhet is fair
nfr-tm
m
21
FIP - Neferhotep I
I, 200.24
Nefertum
nfr-tm-m-ḥs.t
f
1
Nefertum is in praise
nfr-tm-m-sꜣ-f
m
2
I, 200.27
Nefertum is his protection
nfr-tm-ḥtp
m
1
I, 201.1
Nefertum is satisfied
nfr-tḫ.j
f
2
I, 201.3
Drunkenness is fair
nfr.w-jꜥḥ
f
1
II, 299.20
nfrw of Iah
nfr.w-jmn
f
3
I, 203.21
nfrw of Amun
nfr.w-ꜥnq.t
f
2
I, 203.22
nfrw of Anuket
nfr.w-wn
f
1
I, 203.23
nfrw of Un (?)
nfr.w-ptḥ
f
24
late 12th - 18th Dynasty before Amenhotep IV
I, 203.24
nfrw of Ptah
nfr.w-mnṯ.w
f
1
nfrw of Montu
nfr.w-nbw
f
4
II, 299.21
nfrw of the Gold
nfr.w-nḫb.t
f
1
nfrw of Nekhbet
nfr.w-rꜥ
both
33
early 18th Dynasty before Amenhotep II
I, 204.1
nfrw of Re
nfr.w-ḥr
f
2
nfrw of Horus
nfr.w-ḫns.w
f
2
nfrw of Khonsu
nfr.w-sbk
f
15
late 12th Dynasty - Thutmose III
I, 204.3
nfrw of Sobek
nfr.w-skr
f
1
nfrw of Sokar
nfr.t-ꜥnq.t
f
2
I, 201.20
nfr.t-wbn
f
15
Sobekhotep IV - 17th Dyn.
I, 201.21; I, 201.22; I, 202.25
the Fair One comes out
nfr.t-wbn-ꜥnq.t
f
4
nfr.t-wbn⸗s
f
7
Second Intermediate Period
SUE
I, 201.23; I, 202.3
the Fair One, she comes out
nfr.t-mḥ.jj.t
f
1
nfr.t-r-ḥꜣ.t
f
1
I, 202.16
the Fair One is to be in front
nmt.j
both
30
FIP - Neferhotep I
I, 204.13; I, 204.14; I, 69.16
Nemti
nmt.j-jw
I, 69.17
Nemti has come
nmt.j-ꜥnḫ
f
2
Nemti is alive