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The [[Egyptian language|Egyptian]] name for Thebes was ''wꜣs.t'', "City of the [[was-sceptre|''wꜣs'']]", the [[sceptre]] of the [[pharaoh]]s, a long staff with an animal's head and a forked base. From the end of the [[New Kingdom of Egypt|New Kingdom]], Thebes was known in Egyptian as {{nowrap|''njw.t-jmn''}}, the "City of [[Amun]]", the chief of the [[Theban Triad]] of deities whose other members were [[Mut]] and [[Khonsu]]. This name of Thebes appears in the [[Tanakh]] as the {{nowrap|"Nōʼ ʼĀmôn"}} ({{lang|he|נא אמון}}) in the [[Book of Nahum]]<ref>[[Nahum 3:8]].</ref> and also as "No" ({{lang|he|נא}}) mentioned in the [[Book of Ezekiel]]<ref>Ezekiel 30:14–16.</ref> and [[Book of Jeremiah|Jeremiah]].<ref>Jeremiah 46:25.</ref><ref>Huddlestun, John R. “Nahum, Nineveh, and the Nile: The Description of Thebes in Nahum 3:8–9.” Journal of Near Eastern Studies, vol. 62, no. 2, 2003, pp. 97–98.</ref>
"Thebes" is sometimes claimed to be the [[latinisation of names|Latinised]] form of {{langx|grc|Θῆβαι}}, the [[Hellenization|hellenized]] form of [[Demotic (Egyptian)|Demotic Egyptian]] ''tꜣ jpt'' ("the temple"), referring to ''jpt-swt''
In the {{Lang|la|[[interpretatio graeca]]}}, Amun was rendered as [[Zeus Ammon]]. The name was therefore translated into Greek as Diospolis, "City of Zeus". To distinguish it from the numerous other cities by this name, it was known as the {{nowrap|"Great Diospolis"}} ({{lang|grc|Διόσπολις Μεγάλη}}, ''Diospolis Megálē''; {{langx|la|Diospolis Magna}}). The Greek names came into wider use after the conquest of Egypt by [[Alexander the Great]], when the country came to be ruled by the [[Ancient Macedonia|Macedonian]] [[Ptolemaic dynasty]].
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