sḫm-jr.f

sḫm (“power, powerful”) +‎ jr (“do, act”) +‎ .f (third-person masculine singular suffix pronoun); the exact interpretation is not altogether clear. Taking sḫm as a noun and jr.f as a modifier, a meaning such as ‘acting power’ is sometimes suggested;[1] this, however, fails to explain the suffix pronoun, which rather suggests an interpretation of jr as a relative form instead of a participle, in which case the sense would be something like ‘the power that he makes’. Alternatively, some have taken sḫm as a participle and jr as a writing of the noun jrw (“visible form”) for an overall sense of ‘powerful of visible form’.[2]

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛxɛm irʔɛf/
  • Conventional anglicization: sekhem-ir.ef

 m

1. potentate, very powerful person or ruler, especially one of the feudal lords of the Middle Kingdom [Pyramid Texts to 18th Dynasty]

Commonly found in parallel with nswt (“king”).

• sḫm-jr.f-mjtt-rꜥ

• “sḫm-jri̯⸗f (lemma ID 142320)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 250.1–250.4