šzp

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ʃɛzɛp/
  • Conventional anglicization: shezep

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to grasp, to physically take up without force (+ n: to, for (oneself); + m: with, into (one’s hand); + m-ꜥ: from (someone))
   • c. 2323 BCE – 2291 BCE, Pyramid Texts of Teti — west wall of the antechamber, line 51–52, spell 373.1–373.4:^[1]

     
     

     ḏd-mdw jhj jhj ṯz ṯw ttj pw šzp n.k tp.k jnq n.k qsw.k sꜣq n.k [ꜥ]w[t].k wḫꜣ n.k tꜣ jr j(w)f.k

     Recitation: Oho, oho! Pick yourself up, O Teti: take to you your head, draw together to you your bones, gather to you your [limb]s, shake out the earth from your flesh.

   • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 3–5:

     šzp ḫrpw ḥw mjnt ḥꜣtt rḏj.t(j) ḥr tꜣ

     The mallet has been taken, the mooring post has been struck, and the prow rope is set on land.

2. (ambitransitive) to accept, to receive, to take into one’s possession without force (objects, payments, bribes, land, a crown, etc.) (+ n: to, for (oneself); + m-ꜥ: from (someone))
3. (transitive) to receive, to be given (something abstract: favor, life, truth, pleasure, time, etc.)
   • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) lines 18–19:

     pr.n.f mḏḥ.w m wḏ n(j) gbb šzp.n.f ḥqꜣt jdbwj wrrt mn.tj m tp.f

     He came forth wreathed at the command of Geb, having received the rulership of the Two Riverbanks (Egypt), the White Crown fixed upon his head.

4. (intransitive with m or transitive, chiefly Late Egyptian) to accept, to admit (a delivery) (+ m: from (a place); + m-dj: from (someone))
5. (transitive) to accept, to receive (offerings)
6. (transitive) to partake of (food or drink), to take to eat or drink
   • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.9–1.10:

     (j)m ꜣtw r jwf r gs skn šzp dj.f n.k

     Don’t raven after meat next to a voracious man; partake when he gives to you.

7. (transitive, medicine, of the vessels of the body) to absorb (medicine, disease, poison, etc.)
8. (transitive) to catch (fish)
9. (transitive) to assume, to take (a seat or place)
10. (transitive) to accept, to assume, to take on (an office or title)
11. (transitive, of people, buildings, or arms) to welcome, to admit, to cordially receive (someone; also, the dead into the afterworld)
12. (transitive) to take in, to harbor (exiles) [19th Dynasty]
13. (transitive) to listen to (words, speech, praises, etc.)
14. (transitive) to breathe, to take in (air, breath, etc.)
15. (ambitransitive, of women or female animals) to receive sexually, to have sex (with)
16. (transitive) to become characterized by (an emotion or abstract quality: happiness, old age, dignity, etc.)
17. (transitive, of the heart/mind) to be pleased by, to find agreeable or dear
18. (transitive) to take on (an opponent) in battle
19. (transitive) to move into (a building or temple chamber) [Greco-Roman Period]
20. (transitive) to set out on, to commence (a fight, a path, a new year, etc.)

• Demotic: šp
  • Coptic: ϣⲱⲡ (šōp)

 m

1. palm, a measure of length equivalent to 4 ḏbꜥw (“digits”) or ¹⁄₇ of a mḥ (“cubit”) (about 7.5 centimetres) [since the Old Kingdom]
2. palm of the hand [New Kingdom]
3. grip, grasp [18th Dynasty]

• Demotic: šp
  • Bohairic Coptic: ϣⲟⲡ (šop)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ϣⲟⲡ (šop)

Unknown.

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ʃɛzɛp/
  • Conventional anglicization: shezep

 m

1. statue as a religious image [since the Middle Kingdom]
2. sphinx [since the Middle Kingdom]
3. image, portrayal, representation (+ n(j): of (a god)) [since the 18th Dynasty]
4. relief, image in relief [Greco-Roman Period]

• “šzp (lemma ID 157200)”, “šzp (lemma ID 157160)”, and “šzp (lemma ID 157210)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 530.1–534.2, 535.3–535.9, 536.1–536.11
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 271–272
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 105, 118, 181, 184, 233–234, 275.