nj zp jwt ḫt nb jm

Egyptian

Etymology

nj zp (“never”) +‎ jwt (subjunctive of jwj (“to come”)) +‎ ḫt (“thing”) +‎ nb (“any”) +‎ jm (“in, from”) +‎ (.j) (first-person singular suffix pronoun), thus literally ‘never did any thing come from me’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ni zɛp iuːt xɛt nɛb im/
  • Conventional anglicization: ni zep iut khet neb im

Phrase

1. a common formulaic protestation of goodness in tomb autobiographies: nothing bad ever happened because of me, no fault was ever found with me

Alternative forms

Some variants omit nb from this phrase:

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nj zp jwt ḫt nb jm  

nj zp jwt ḫt jm

References

• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 12
• Grapow, Hermann, et al. (1897–1939) Das digitalisierte Zettelarchiv des “Wörterbuches der ägyptischen Sprache” (DZA)‎^[1], Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, published 1999, DZA 20.417.880 to 20.417.940