sḫpr

Egyptian

s- (causative prefix) +‎ ḫpr (“to come into being, to become”).

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛxɛpɛr/
- Conventional anglicization: sekheper

caus. 3-lit.

(transitive) to bring about
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 54–56:
  
  šdt.j ḏꜣ sḫpr.n.j ḫt jr.n.j z(b)j-n-sḏt n nṯrw
  I took a fire-stick, I made a fire, and I made a burnt offering to the gods.

Conjugation of sḫpr (causative triliteral / caus. 3-lit. / caus. 3rad.) — base stem: sḫpr

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
sḫpr	sḫprw, sḫpr	sḫprt	sḫpr	sḫpr

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	sḫpr.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	sḫpr	active + .tj¹, .tw²	sḫpr	sḫpr, sḫprw⁵, sḫpry⁵
imperfective	sḫpr, sḫpry, sḫprw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	sḫpr, sḫprj⁶, sḫpry⁶	sḫpr, sḫprw⁵
prospective	sḫpr, sḫprtj⁷	—	sḫprwtj^{1 4}, sḫprtj⁴, sḫprt⁴
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, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular. Only in the masculine. Only in the feminine.

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 174.