ḫfꜣj

== Egyptian == === Pronunciation === (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /xɛfɑi/ Conventional anglicization: khefai === Verb === (transitive) to illuminate (something), to brighten, to fill with light c. 1290–1279 BCE (reign of Seti I), Temple of Karnak, Great Hypostyle Hall, B 327: east wall, north wing, fourth register, seventh scene from the north (KIU 889), lines 1–3: c. 51–30 BCE (reign of Cleopatra VII), Temple of Hathor at Dendera, roof kiosk (chamber W'), east gate, inner side, right (south) door post, D 8, 17.7: ==== Inflection ==== ==== Alternative forms ==== === References === “ḫfꜣi̯ (lemma ID 116590)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎[1], Corpus issue 20, Web app version 2.5.0, ed. by Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning […] and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils […], 2004–23 April 2026 Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1929), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎[2], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 271.9 Meeks, Dimitri (1977) Année Lexicographique Égypte Ancienne vol. I, 77.3061 Meeks, Dimitri (1978) Année Lexicographique Égypte Ancienne vol. II, 78.2999 Brand, Peter J., Feleg, Rosa Erika, and Murnane, William J. (2018) The Great Hypostyle Hall in the Temple of Amun at Karnak, volume 1, part 2: Translation and Commentary, pages 299–300: According to Nelson, ḫfꜢ.t seems to mean “to fill (with light).” See JNES 8 (1949), pp. 339–40 and n. 166 with references cited therein. Although it does not appear in the Berlin Dictionary, ḫfꜢ.t might simply be a fuller writing of ḫf “illuminate”; Wb. III, p. 271.