James Hoch explains meaning of Egyptian idiom "by the hand of."
- Type
- Book
- Source
- James Hoch Non-LDS
- Hearsay
- DirectSecondary
- Reference
James Hoch, Middle Egyptian Grammar (Mississauga: Benben Publications, 1997), §81
- Scribe/Publisher
- Benben Publications
- People
- James Hoch
- Audience
- Reading Public
- Transcription
Egyptian compound prepositions are by and large bound constructions consisting of preposition + noun, e.g. ḥr-tp "on top of." . . . A number of these use parts of the human body as the second element:
ḫft-ḥr "before the face of," "in front of"
m-Ꜥ "in the hand," "in the possession of," "by the hand of," "with" (a person," "because of," "from the hand of" (i.e. a letter).
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