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 Pꜣḫ.t
- name with Ptḥ
- name with Mꜣ-ḥsꜣ
- name with Mꜣꜥt
- name with Mwt
- 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 Ḥwt-Ḥr
- 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 Sṯjjt
- 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 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: 12133)
- Usage period:
- Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period
- Bibliography:
- Vernus 1986c, 122-123
jw-nb⸗s
f
1
her lord comes
jw-n⸗j-ḏḥw.tj
1
II, 260.29
Thoth comes to me
jꜥḥ-ḥtp.tj
jꜥḥ-ḥtp
both
13
I, 13.8
Iah is satisfied
jꜥḥ-nḫt
m
1
Iah is strong
jꜥḥ-nfr
m
1
I, 13.6
Iah is fair
jꜥḥ-ms
both
57
Sobekhotep IV - 17th Dyn.
I, 12.19
Iah is born
jꜥḥ-m-ḥb
m
1
I, 12.17
Iah is in holiday
jꜥḥ-m-ḥꜣ.t
m
1
Iah is in front
jꜥḥ-wsr
m
2
Iah is powerful
jꜥḥ-ꜥꜣ
m
1
Iah is great
jꜥḥ
both
14
FIP - Neferhotep I
I, 12.13; I, 155.15
Iah
jj.wj-ptḥ
m
2
I, 8.21
Ptah is welcome
jj-n⸗j-stẖ
m
1
Seth comes to me
jj-n⸗j-sbk
m
3
I, 10.4
Sobek comes to me
jj-n⸗j-ḥw.t-ḥr
m
1
Hathor has come to me
jj-n⸗j-nbw
f
1
the Gold comes to me
jj-n⸗j-js.t-jr.t
m
1
I, 10.2
Osiris comes to me
jj-mnṯ.w
m
2
I, 153.21
Montu comes
jj-mnw
m
1
Min comes
jꜣ.w-ptḥ
m
1
I, 6.9
j-ḥr
II, 260.3
j-mr.jj-ptḥ
m
1
I, 5.14
j-ꜣs.t
II, 259.27
ꜣs.t-m-ḥꜣ.t
f
1
I, 4.4
Isis is in front
ꜣs.t-wr.tj
f
2
I, 4.1
Isis is pre-eminent
ꜣs.t
both
28
mid-12th Dynasty - Second Intermediate Period
I, 3.18
Isis
ꜣḫ-ḥw.t-ḥr
f
1
I, 3.3
Hathor is beneficial
ꜣḫ-n⸗j-mw.t
f
1
I, 3.6
Mut is beneficial for me
ꜣḫ-n⸗j-ptḥ
m
1
Ptah is beneficial for me
ꜣw.jj-ḥr.j
m
1
ꜣw-jb-ḥr
m
4
I, 414.1
Horus is joyous