• (modern Egyptological)IPA^(key): /xɛfɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization:khefet

1. across from,opposite,facing,before (in front of)
2. (with an inanimate object) inaccordance with,according to
   • c. 1550BCE – 1295BCE,Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 25:

     wḏ.n n.k jt.k gbb jr.n.twḫft ḏdt.n.f

     Your father Geb has decreed in your favor, and it has been doneaccording to his word(literally,“what he said”).

3. (with an infinitive as object)when,while
   • c. 1900BCE,The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) line 2.2:

     nj rḫ.n.tw ḫprt jrrt nṯrḫft ḫsf.f

     One cannot know what might come to be or what the god might dowhen he punishes.

Despite the apparent glyph order, this word is read asḫft and not**ḫtf, as its alternative writings demonstrate.

Adverbial forms ofḫft  

ḫftw	ḫft	ḫft jrj

Alternative hieroglyphic writings ofḫft  

ḫft

1. Abbreviated form ofḫftw(“accordingly”).

• James P[eter] Allen (2010),Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,→ISBN,page88.
• Hoch, James (1997),Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications,→ISBN,page70

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