What's the Ancient Egyptian word for "benedict"?

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In Middle Egyptian, the word for "exalted" or "raised on high" would be qAi or "qAi". Hopefully that is close enough for what you require.

You may find this PDF Dictionary of Middle Egyptian a useful reference.

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The 10th edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary, which is not infallible but does have the prestige and authority of Britain's second best University behind it, does not list 'benedict' as a word, although it does have 'benediction'.

However, if relevant, the phrase 'maat hrw' (maat meaning truth or justice, hrw meaning voice) was often used to refer to deceased people whose souls were presumed after their deaths to have been pronounced worthy by a court of gods to enter the Ancient Egyptian equivalent of heaven.

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