ḫbs

See also: HBs and ḥbs

Egyptian

3-lit.

This verb is almost exclusively found in religious texts.

Conjugation of ḫbs (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: ḫbs, geminated stem: ḫbss

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
ḫbs	ḫbsw, ḫbs	ḫbst	ḫbs	ḫbs

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	ḫbs.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	ḫbs	active + .tj¹, .tw²	ḫbs	ḫbs, ḫbsw⁵, ḫbsy⁵
imperfective	ḫbs, ḫbsy, ḫbsw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	ḫbs, ḫbsj⁶, ḫbsy⁶	ḫbs, ḫbsw⁵
prospective	ḫbs, ḫbstj⁷	—	ḫbstj⁴, ḫbst⁴
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 ḫbs

ḫbs

3-lit.

(transitive, of hippopotamus hunters) to plough through (water) [Greco-Roman Period]

Conjugation of ḫbs (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: ḫbs, geminated stem: ḫbss

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
ḫbs	ḫbsw, ḫbs	ḫbst	ḫbs	ḫbs

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	ḫbs.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	ḫbs	active + .tj¹, .tw²	ḫbs	ḫbs, ḫbsw⁵, ḫbsy⁵
imperfective	ḫbs, ḫbsy, ḫbsw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	ḫbs, ḫbsj⁶, ḫbsy⁶	ḫbs, ḫbsw⁵
prospective	ḫbs, ḫbstj⁷	—	ḫbstj⁴, ḫbst⁴
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 ḫbs

ḫbs

m

Declension of ḫbs (masculine)

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḫbs

ḫbsw

in the plural

m

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 256.1–256.10, 256.13–256.16
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 187–188