bšṯ

See also: BST

Egyptian[edit]

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /bɛʃɛt͡ʃ/
- Conventional anglicization: beshetj

3-lit.

(intransitive) to rebel or be rebellious (+ ḥr: against) [since the Old Kingdom]
(intransitive) (of water) to be agitated [Middle Kingdom]

Since the end of the New Kingdom this word becomes conflated with bdš (“to be dull”), having undergone metathesis.

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
bšṯ	bšṯw, bšṯ	bšṯt	bšṯ	bšṯ

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
aspect / mood	active	active	passive
perfect	bšṯ.n	—	—
perfective	bšṯ	bšṯ	bšṯ, bšṯw⁵, bšṯy⁵
imperfective	bšṯ, bšṯy, bšṯw⁵	bšṯ, bšṯj⁶, bšṯy⁶	bšṯ, bšṯw⁵
prospective	bšṯ, bšṯtj⁷	bšṯtj⁴, bšṯt⁴
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 bšṯ

bšt

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 281.
Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 479.1–479.5