neter

The Goddess herself was made the spouse of Joseph, whose Egyptian name meant "he who was brought o life by the word of the Goddess neter."

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Nectanebo I (Nakhtnebef, 380–362) from Tjeb-neter (Sebennytus) drove off a Persian invasion (371) and built and restored many monuments throughout Egypt.

f. The Late Dynastic Period (25th-31st Dynasties) 2001

Will you neter outgrow that adolescent sense of humor?

Dread Brass Shadows Cook, Glen 1990

Hieroglyphics (styled by the Egyptians _skhai en neter tur_ -- writing of sacred words) are composed of signs representing objects of the physical world, as animals, plants, stars, man and his different members, and various objects.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

The late Dr.H. Brugsch partly accepted this view, for he defined _neter_ as being "the active power which produces and creates things in regular recurrence; which bestows new life upon them, and gives back to them their youthful vigour."

Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life 1895

French Egyptologist, E. de Rougé, connected the name of God, _neter_, with the other word _neter_, "renewal" or "renovation," and it would, according to his view, seem as if the fundamental idea of God was that of the Being who had the power to renew himself perpetually -- or in other words, "self-existence."

Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life 1895

It may be, of course, that _neter_ had another meaning which is now lost, but it seems that the great difference between God and his messengers and created things is that he is the Being who is self-existent and immortal, whilst they are not self-existent and are mortal.

Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life 1895

We must now, however, see how the word for God, _neter_, is employed in religious texts and in works which contain moral precepts.

Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life 1895

However this may have been, it is certain that the fleet weighed anchor, and sailed down the Red Sea, borne by favourable winds, which were ascribed to the gracious majesty of Ammon, and reached their destination, the Ta-neter, or "Holy Land" -- the "abode of Athor," and perhaps the original home of Ammon himself -- without accident or serious difficulty.

Ancient Egypt George Rawlinson 1857

A bowl or basin represents the sound of _neb_, a hatchet that of _neter_, a guitar that of _nefer_, a crescent that of _aah_, and so on.

Ancient Egypt George Rawlinson 1857