| ⲇⲓⲁⲑⲏⲕⲏ | -- | - covenant, compact, agreement
- covenant, compact (between God and humans, neither Old nor New Covenant)
- (the Old) Covenant (the Old Covenant, between God and Israel)
- (the New) Covenant (the New Covenant, between God and His chosen ones)
- covenant, compact (inverted attributive; nominal referent)
- covenant, compact, testament (in the form of a book or text)
- testament, will (substantive)
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| ⲇⲓⲁⲕⲟⲛⲉⲓ | -- | - to serve (object: none)
- to serve, minister to s.o.
- to serve s.th.
- to serve, supply by/with s.th.
- to serve, supply s.o. by/with s.th.
- to serve, supply s.th. by/with s.th.
- to serve, minister at s.th. (ob2: sanctuary, altar)
- to attend to, to look after s.o.
- to attend to, to look after s.th.
- to give assistance, supply the means for s.th.
- to do one's business (perform domestic or charitable service) (object: none)
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| ⲇⲓⲁⲕⲟⲛⲓⲁ | -- | - service, aid, support
- service, office, ministry
- Diakonia (re: department responsible for the goods and finances of a monastery, which may have different divisions each with its own Diakonia, including, but not limited to the dispensation of welfare; may also refer pars pro toto to the monastic community)
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| ⲇⲓⲁⲕⲟⲛⲟⲥ | -- | - servant, assistant
- deacon
- deacon (inverted attributive, nominal referent)
- assistant, servant, deacon (benevolent celestial being)
- Deacon (St. Philip the Deacon, one of the seven Deacons of Acts 6)
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| ⲇⲓⲁⲥⲧⲁⲗⲉ | ⲇⲓⲁⲥⲧⲉⲓⲗⲉ, ... | - to specify s.th./s.o. exactly
- to circumscribe (the exact location/boundaries of) s.th. to s.o. (object1: plot/house/estate; object2: person)
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| ⲇⲓⲁⲥⲧⲁⲗⲙⲟⲥ | -- | exact circumscription (of the boundaries of a house or plot) |
| ⲇⲓⲁⲧⲟⲭⲟⲥ | -- | - successor
- vicar (representative of the Miaphysite patriarch of Alexandria)
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| ⲇⲓⲇⲓⲡⲗⲁ | -- | didipla, double-double mark (measure for wine, twice the amount of dipla) |
| ⲇⲓⲕⲁⲓⲟⲛ | -- | - legal claim
- appeal
- right, just one or thing; justice
- justice (substantive)
- just, righteous (attributive)
- just, righteous (inverted attributive, attributive referent)
- legal claim
- appeal
- legal department (substantive; re: body representing a monastery in economic dealings, in turn represented by the abbot who also acts as manager)
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| ⲇⲓⲕⲁⲓⲟⲥ | -- | - righteous, lawful, just one (substantive)
- righteous, lawful, just (attributive)
- righteous, lawful, just (inverted attributive, attributive referent)
- "the Just (one)" (epithet for the disciple James) (substantive)
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| ⲇⲓⲕⲁⲓⲟⲥⲩⲛⲏ | -- | - righteousness, justice (substantive)
- righteousness, justice (attributive)
- righteousness (semi-benign force in Jewish history, under the control of Sabaoth)
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| ⲇⲓⲟⲓⲕⲏⲥⲓⲥ | -- | - administration, organization, management (designates the management of a monastery's economic activities as opposed to its λειτουργία = religious activities in the broadest sense)
- administration, organization (of the cosmos)
- tax-payment
- supplying, task of procuring
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| ⲇⲓⲟⲓⲕⲏⲧⲏⲥ | ⲇⲓⲉⲓⲕⲉⲧⲏⲥ, ... | (village) administrator (highest village official, representative of the pagarch) |
| ⲇⲓⲣⲕⲏ | -- | woman who suffers the fate of Dirke in Greek tragedy |
| ⲇⲣⲁⲕⲱⲛ | -- | - serpent (substantive)
- serpent (attributive)
- dragon
- dragon (inverted attributive, nominal referent)
- dragon (epithet of the devil)
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| ⲇⲩⲙⲟⲥⲓⲟⲩ | -- | - to make s.th. public, announce s.th. (object: none)
- to write s.th. down for the public record
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| ⲇⲩⲛⲁⲙⲓⲥ | -- | - power (general, or precise sense unclear)
- power (general, or precise sense unclear; inverted attributive, nominal referent)
- might, force, power
- might, force, power (inverted attributive, nominal referent)
- power (creative or demiurgic)
- power (creative or demiurgic; inverted attributive, nominal referent)
- power (first principles; metaphysical principles)
- power (first principles; metaphysical principles; inverted attributive, nominal referent)
- act, deed (of power)
- force, authority, validity (of a document or obligation)
- Power (benevolent celestial being)
- power (benevolent celestial being; an aeon)
- Power (inverted attributive, nominal referent; referent: benevolent celestial being)
- Power (malevolent celestial being)
- Power (attributive; malevolent celestial being)
- Power (superhuman being; disposition unclear)
- Power (a celestial place)
- Power (a celestial place, inverted attributive, nominal referent)
- (drawing of the) Power (a superhuman being to be drawn on an amulet)
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| ⲉⲃⲟⲗ ⲥⲁ- | -- | from the side, from |
| ⲉⲃⲟⲗ ϩⲓⲧⲟⲟⲧ⸗ | -- | by the hand of, through, by, from |
| ⲉⲃⲣⲁⲥⲱϣⲉ | -- | seed-corn ('seed of the field') |
| ⲉⲅⲕⲉⲫⲁⲗⲟⲥ | ⲁⲛⲅⲉⲫⲁⲣⲟⲥ, ... | contents of the head (brain) |
| ⲉⲅⲕⲣⲁⲧⲏⲥ | -- | - abstaining, self-controlled (designation of ascetics in the Church) (substantive)
- abstainer (Manichaean ascetic) (substantive)
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| ⲉⲑⲏ | -- | to the front, forwards |
| ⲉⲑⲏⲣ | ⲁⲓⲑⲏⲣ | aither, ether (referent: firey gas in the upper atmosphere; "upper air") |
| ⲉⲓ (ⲉⲧⲛ-) | -- | come into the hand of (power of) |
| ⲉⲓⲇⲟⲥ | ⲉⲓⲇⲉⲁ, ... | - thing, item, property, wares
- thing, item, property, wares (inverted attributive; nominal referent)
- form, shape, image
- form, shape, image (of intelligible realities)
- form, kind, type
- species, kind, type (one of the logical differentiae)
- element
- vessel
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| ⲉⲓⲉⲃⲧ | -- | the east |
| ⲉⲓⲉⲡⲟⲩⲟⲉⲓⲉ | -- | product of the land |
| ⲉⲓⲣⲉⲱⲥ | ⲉⲓⲉⲣⲉⲟⲥ | the purple Iris (Iris germanica) |
| ⲉⲓⲱⲣⲙ (ⲉ-) | -- | follow (with the eyes), look intently |
| ⲉⲕⲇⲓⲕⲟⲥ | -- | - defender (of the church, lat. defensor ecclesiae)
- prosecutor, avenger (of God)
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| ⲉⲕⲕⲗⲏⲥⲓⲁ | -- | - church, assembly (general, or specific sense unclear)
- congregation, assembly (on earth)
- congregation, assembly (on earth; inverted attributive, nominal referent)
- Church (abstract, universal community of worshippers; "The Church" with a capital "C")
- Church (Denomination) (often plural, but need not be)
- Church (abstract, universal community of Manichaeans)
- church (a particular community of worshippers)
- church (a particular community of Manichaean worshippers)
- church (physical building, "house of God")
- church (specific physical building and its congregation)
- congregation, assembly, Church (celestial, pre-existent)
- church (celestial, pre-existent; of the first-born)
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| ⲉⲕⲕⲗⲏⲥⲓⲁⲥⲧⲏⲥ | -- | - convenor of an assembly (used as a name)
- (the book of) Ecclesiastes
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| ⲉⲕⲕⲗⲏⲥⲓⲁⲥⲧⲓⲕⲟⲛ | -- | - ecclesiastical, pertaining to the (universal) church (attributive)
- cleric (?) (substantive)
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| ⲉⲕⲗⲉⲕⲧⲏ | -- | elect, saved (in the Manichaean Church) (substantive) |
| ⲉⲕⲗⲉⲕⲧⲟⲥ | -- | elect, saved (in the Manichaean Church) (substantive) |
| ⲉⲕⲟⲇⲟⲙⲏ | ⲉⲕⲟⲓⲇⲟⲙⲏ | - construction (the act of building)
- building, edifice
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| ⲉⲕⲧⲏⲥ | ⲉⲕⲧⲏ | - sixth (year of the indiction cycle) (substantive)
- sixth (year of the indiction cycle) (attributive)
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| ⲉⲗⲁⲭⲓⲥⲧⲟⲥ | ⲁⲗⲁⲭⲓⲥⲧⲟⲥ, ... | - least, humble, lowly, pathetic, pitiful one (substantive)
- least, smallest thing (substantive)
- least, humble, lowly, pathetic, pitiful (inverted attributive, attributive referent)
- humblest, unworthiest, least one (self-deprecating expression used by clerics, monks, and anchorites) (substantive)
- humblest, unworthiest, least one (unusual usage referring to the addressee, and not the sender of a letter) (substantive)
- humblest, unworthiest, least (self-deprecating expression used by clerics, monks, and anchorites) (attributive)
- humblest, unworthiest, least one (unusual usage referring to a third person rather than the speaker) (inverted attributive; attributive referent)
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| ⲉⲙⲛⲧ | -- | (the) west |
| ⲉⲛⲁⲅⲉ | ⲁⲓⲛⲉⲅⲉ, ... | - to sue (object: none)
- to sue/proceed against/take s.o. to court
- to sue for s.th.
- to sue/proceed against s.o. for s.th. (object 2: object of dispute)
- to sue/proceed against s.o. before s.o. (object 2: governmental authority)
- to sue/proceed against s.o. for s.th. before s.o. (object 3: governmental authority)
- to sue/proceed against s.o. by the use of s.th.
- to sue/proceed against on behalf of s.o.
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| ⲉⲛⲇⲩⲙⲁ | ⲉⲛⲇⲏⲙⲁ, ... | - cloth, fabric
- garment, clothing
- garment, clothing (i.e., the body)
- garment (i.e., an astral body)
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| ⲉⲛⲛⲁⲧⲏ | ⲉⲛⲛⲁⲉⲧⲏⲥ, ... | - ninth (year of the indiction cycle) (substantive)
- ninth (year of the indiction cycle) (attributive)
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| ⲉⲛⲛⲟⲓⲁ | ⲉⲛⲟⲓⲁ | - mind, faculty of thinking, consciousness
- insight, conception, thought
- idea, form (in the "Platonic" sense - a celestial archetype)
- thought, concept (synonymous with "world")
- conception, reflection (benevolent celestial hypostasis; an aeon)
- plan, design
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| ⲉⲟⲩⲛⲁⲙ | -- | on the right, to the right |
| ⲉⲡⲉⲓⲇⲏ | -- | - since, because (introduces subordinate explanatory clause)
- for, because, you see, so (functions like narratival δέ; introduces explanatory main clause)
- Regarding:, As you know: (general or specific construction unclear) (introduces account of facts known to both sender and adressee, sometimes only to the sender and news to the addressee)
- when, after (introduces temporal clause)
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| ⲉⲡⲉⲓⲧⲛ | -- | to the ground, downwards |
| ⲉⲡⲉⲥⲏⲧ | -- | to the ground, downward |
| ⲉⲡⲉϥⲣⲁⲥⲧⲉ | -- | on the morrow, to-morrow |
| ⲉⲡⲓⲕⲁⲗⲉⲓ | -- | - to invoke, call upon to s.o.
- to invoke, call upon s.th.
- invoke, call upon, summon s.o. (object: a superhuman entity or force)
- to invoke, call upon s.o. to do s.th. (object2: ⲉ + Inf.)
- to invoke, call upon s.o. to do s.th. (object2: imperative)
- invoke, call upon, summon s.o. by s.th. (object1: a superhuman entity or force; object2: means of summoning)
- to invoke, call upon s.th.
- to invoke, call upon s.th. to do s.th (object2: ϫⲉⲕⲁⲥ + Fut. 3)
- to utter an incantation, to pray (object: none)
- to utter an incantation, gave an invocation over s.th.
- to utter an incantation, gave an invocation by the means of s.th.
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| ⲉⲡⲓⲥⲧⲏⲙⲏ | -- | - comprehension, knowledge
- knowledge, learning, education (the object/goal of study)
- (scientific) knowledge
- (rules of) discipline / hierarchy
- comprehension, knowledge (of God)
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| ⲉⲡⲓⲥⲧⲟⲗⲏ | -- | - letter
- letter (attributive)
- letter (inverted attributive, nominal referent)
- document
- Epistle (title of literary works)
- Letters (title of canonical work by Mani)
- letter (work by Shenoute, i.e., the sermons of a canon)
- letter (inverted attributive; nominal referent)
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| ⲉⲡⲓⲧⲣⲉⲡⲉ | ϯⲡⲓⲧⲣⲉⲡⲉ, ... | - to turn over, entrust to s.th.
- to commission (object: none)
- to commission s.o.
- to commission s.o. to do s.th. (object2: result clause)
- to commission s.o. concerning s.th. (object2: land to be tilled by the commissioned lessee)
- to encourage that (object: result clause)
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| ⲉⲡⲓⲧⲣⲟⲡⲟⲥ | -- | - foreman, manager, steward
- (heavenly) steward, manager (epithet of the archangel Michael)
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| ⲉⲡⲟⲓⲕⲓⲟⲛ | ⲉⲡⲉⲅⲉ, ... | - farmstead (re: a small rural settlement owned and controlled by a landowner, as opposed to a 'regular' village supervised by the pagarch; may however be synonymous with the latter in some instances)
- farmstead (inverted attribuitive, nominal referent)
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| ⲉⲡⲧⲉ | -- | at the right time |
| ⲉⲡϩⲁⲉ | -- | at the end |
| ⲉⲣⲁⲥⲧⲉ | -- | on the morrow, to-morrow |
| ⲉⲣⲉ- | ⲉ⸗ | if [verbal prefix of the conditional] |
| ⲉⲣⲏⲙⲟⲥ | -- | - barren, empty (substantive)
- barren, empty (attributive)
- solitary one (substantive)
- desert, wilderness (substantive)
- desert, wilderness (attributive)
- desert(ed), ruined state (often literally in the desert) (substantive)
- desert, solitude
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| ⲉⲣⲟⲩⲱⲓⲛⲓ | -- | play the harp |
| ⲉⲥⲟⲩⲏⲣⲉ | -- | Isis the Great, |
| ⲉⲧⲓ | -- | - still (indicating the continuity of a state)
- still (referring to future events)
- also, moreover, besides
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| ⲉⲩⲁⲅⲅⲉⲗⲓⲍⲉ | -- | - to proclaim, explain, tell (object: none; content: the good news; not necessarily regarding Jesus's resurrection)
- to proclaim, explain, tell to s.o. (content: the good news; not necessarily regarding Jesus's resurrection)
- to proclaim, explain, tell (context deleted; content: the good news of Jesus's resurrection)
- to proclaim, explain, tell (object: none; content: the good news of Jesus's resurrection)
- to proclaim, explain, tell to s.o. (content: the good news of Jesus's resurrection)
- to proclaim, explain, tell s.o. (content: the good news of Jesus's resurrection)
- to proclaim, explain, tell s.th. (content: the good news of Jesus's resurrection)
- to proclaim, explain, tell s.th. to s.o. (content: the good news of Jesus's resurrection)
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| ⲉⲩⲁⲅⲅⲉⲗⲓⲥⲧⲏⲥ | -- | - evangelist, bringer of the Good News (not only the four canonical ones)
- evangelist, bringer of Good News, Gospel author (four canonical ones only)
- evangelist, bringer of Good News, Gospel author (attributive; four canonical ones only)
- evangelist, bringer of Good News, Gospel author (inverted attributive, nominal referent; four canonical ones only)
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| ⲉⲩⲅⲉⲛⲏⲥ | -- | - noble (belonging to the class of noblemen) (substantive)
- noble (attributive)
- nobly/well-born (attributive)
- nobly-born, noble (self-designation for the Gnostic elect) (substantive)
- nobly-born, noble (self-designation for the Gnostic elect) (attributive)
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| ⲉⲩⲇⲟⲕⲉⲓ | ⲉⲩⲇⲟⲕⲓ | - to consent, be pleased with (the emanation of aeons) (object: none)
- to consent, be pleased with s.o. (emanating aeons) (object: the emanator)
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| ⲉⲩⲗⲟⲅⲱⲥ | -- | Quite rightly, justly, reasonably (introduces and legitimizes demands/the need for a legal document to be drawn up or presented as evidence) |
| ⲉⲩⲭⲁⲣⲓⲥⲧⲉⲓ | -- | - to thank, give thanks (object: none)
- to thank s.o., give thanks to s.o.
- to give thanks for s.th
- to thank s.o. for s.th.
- to thank s.o. that (object2: clause)
- to celebrate the eucharist over s.th.
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| ⲉⲱⲛ | ⲁⲓⲟⲛ, ... | - age, aeon (general, or specific sense unclear)
- age, aeon (inverted attributive, nominal referent; general, or specific sense unclear)
- aeon, generation (of human beings)
- (this) age, world, life (before death)
- (this) age, world, life (before death) (plural usage)
- (the next) age, world, life (after death) (referent: the afterlife)
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| ⲍⲉⲩⲥ | ⲍⲉⲟⲥ | Zeus (the Greek god) |
| ⲍⲱⲇⲓⲟⲛ | ⲥⲱϯⲟⲩⲛ | (animal) sign (of the zodiac) |
| ⲍⲱⲏ | -- | - life (general, or more specific sense unclear)
- Adam's wife Zoe, 'Life' (name of (part of) Eve; genetrix of humanity)
- the aeon Zoe, 'Life' (name of (part of) Eve; hypostasis of "life")
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| ⲍⲱⲟⲛ | -- | - animal, living being, creature
- animal, creature (attributive)
- animal, living being, creature (inverted attributive, nominal referent)
- (heavenly) creature (i.e., the Four Creatures of Ezek 1)
- (heavenly) creature (inverted attributive; nominal referent; i.e., the Four Creatures of Ezek 1)
- (heavenly) creature, beast (i.e., an angel)
- (heavenly) creature, living being (celestial, Platonic form of living beings)
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| ⲏⲅⲟⲩⲛ | -- | - that is to say, i.e.
- that means: (introduces the explanation/translation of a word by a synonym)
- or rather/alternatively
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| ⲏⲥⲉ | -- | the goddess Isis |
| ⲑⲁⲗⲁⲥⲥⲁ | -- | - sea, lake
- (direction of the) sea, (West or South)
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| ⲑⲁⲫⲏ | -- | junction, point of contact in the body |
| ⲑⲉⲓⲟⲛ | -- | - the divine (abstract) (substantive)
- divine (attributive)
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| ⲑⲉⲟⲇⲟⲕⲟⲥ | -- | the God-Bearing (epithet of Virgin Mary) |
| ⲑⲉⲟⲗⲟⲅⲟⲥ | ⲑⲉⲟⲗⲟⲕⲟⲥ | theologian (epithet of John the Evangelist and Gregory of Nazianzus) |
| ⲑⲉⲥⲃⲓⲧⲏⲥ | -- | Thesbite, of Thesba (?) (epithet of Elijah the prophet) |
| ⲑⲏⲣⲓⲟⲛ | -- | - feral land animal, beast
- feral land animal, beast (attributive)
- feral land animal, beast (inverted attributive; nominal referent)
- domesticated animal, farm animal
- beast, monster (terrible primordial being)
- beast (i.e., the Serpent in the Garden of Eden)
- the Beast (in the book of Revelation)
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| ⲑⲛⲏⲧⲟⲛ | ⲑⲛⲏⲧⲟⲥ | - mortal being (substantive)
- mortal (attributive)
- mortality (substantive)
- the mortal realm (substantive)
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| *ⲑⲟⲩⲏⲣⲓ | -- | the Great one (Thoeris), |
| ⲑⲟⲩⲑⲟⲩ | -- | to have the skin disease lentigo |
| ⲑⲣⲟⲛⲟⲥ | -- | - throne, seat
- throne (of (arch)bishops)
- seat (base, place, dwelling-place for archbishops)
- throne (of God)
- throne (chariot) (of God - the Merkavah)
- throne (chariot) (inverted attributive; of God - the Merkavah)
- throne (in or from heaven, for celestial beings)
- throne (in heaven, for earthly saints)
- throne (of Jesus in heaven)
- seat (of s.th.) (object: abstract quality)
- reign, dominion, power, majesty
- Throne (heavenly being, benevolent)
- Throne (heavenly being, malevolent)
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| ⲑⲩⲥⲓⲁⲥⲧⲏⲣⲓⲟⲛ | -- | - altar (of sacrifice, incl. jewish temple)
- altar (in church)
- sanctuary (the church-building itself, or part of it)
- altar (in heaven)
- altar (room) (area around the altar)
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| ⲑⲱⲟⲩϯ ⲙⲡⲓϣⲉ | -- | ring, sound the gong |
| ⲓⲥⲕⲁⲣⲓⲱⲧⲏⲥ | -- | Iskariot (surname of the Apostle Judas and his father) |
| ⲓⲥⲟⲧⲩⲡⲟⲛ | ϩⲓⲥⲟⲧⲩⲡⲟⲛ | identical, duplicate (of two copies of the same document) (attributive) |
| ⲓⲥⲧⲟⲣⲓⲁ | ϣⲓⲥⲧⲟⲣⲓⲁ, ... | - account, story, explanation
- history (the historical books of the Old Testament)
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| ⲓⲭⲛⲟⲥ | ⲉⲓⲭⲛⲟⲥ | - (foot)print
- hint, suggestion
- hint, trace (of the transcendent)
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| ⲓⲱⲧⲁ | -- | iota (9th letter of the Greek alphabet) |
| ⲕⲁⲑⲉⲅⲟⲩⲙⲉⲛⲟⲥ | -- | - catechumen
- catechumen (in the Manichaean church)
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| ⲕⲁⲑⲉⲇⲣⲁ | -- | - chair, seat
- seat (of a bishop)
- pulpit
- chair, seat (God's throne-chariot, the Merkavah)
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| ⲕⲁⲑⲏⲕⲟⲩⲙⲉⲛⲟⲥ | ⲕⲁⲑⲏⲅⲟⲩⲙⲉⲛⲟⲥ, ... | - catechumen (substantive)
- catechumen, hearer (in the Manichaean Church) (substantive)
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| ⲕⲁⲑⲟⲗⲓⲕⲏ | -- | - universal, all-encompassing (attributive)
- general, basic (attributive)
- universal, "catholic" (attributive)
- universal, "catholic" (substantive)
- principal (church, i.e., the main local church in an Egyptian village) (substantive)
- principal (church, i.e., the main local church in an Egyptian village) (inverted attributive; nominal referent)
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| ⲕⲁⲑⲟⲗⲓⲕⲟⲛ | ⲕⲁⲑⲗⲟⲗⲓⲕⲟⲛ | - universal, all-encompassing (attributive)
- universal, whole (as opposed to partial, particular) (substantive)
- universal, whole (as opposed to partial, particular) (attributive)
- Catholic, universal (attributive; of the Egyptian Church)
- The Catholic epistles (substantive)
- universal (inverted attributive; attributive referent)
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| ⲕⲁⲕⲟⲛ | -- | - evil (substantive)
- the bad, evil (abstract) (substantive)
- act/instance of evil (substantive)
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