ḫꜣtb

Egyptian[edit]

4-lit.

(intransitive, always negated) to have mercy, to take pity (+ jm: to have mercy on, to spare) [Pyramid Texts and Book of the Dead]
- c. 2289 BCE – 2255 BCE, Pyramid Texts of Pepi I — south wall of the vestibule, spell 542.4:^[1]
  
  ḏḥwtj m ḫꜣtb.k j.msḏw nb [j]t(.j)
  Thoth, show no mercy to anyone who hates my father.

Conjugation of ḫꜣtb (quadriliteral / 4-lit. / 4rad.) — base stem: ḫꜣtb

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
ḫꜣtb	ḫꜣtbw, ḫꜣtb	ḫꜣtbt	ḫꜣtb	ḫꜣtb

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
aspect / mood	active	active	passive
perfect	ḫꜣtb.n	—	—
perfective	ḫꜣtb	ḫꜣtb	ḫꜣtb, ḫꜣtbw⁵, ḫꜣtby⁵
imperfective	ḫꜣtb, ḫꜣtby, ḫꜣtbw⁵	ḫꜣtb, ḫꜣtbj⁶, ḫꜣtby⁶	ḫꜣtb, ḫꜣtbw⁵
prospective	ḫꜣtb, ḫꜣtbtj⁷	ḫꜣtbwtj^{1 4}, ḫꜣtbtj⁴, ḫꜣtbt⁴
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 ḫꜣtb

ḫꜣtb

[Old Kingdom]

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926–1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN

^ Allen, James (2013) A New Concordance of the Pyramid Texts, volume V, Providence: Brown University, PT 542.4 (Pyr. 1335a), P