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== Name == Nehebkau's name – also spelled Neheb-Kau<ref name=wilkinson>{{cite book |last=Wilkinson |first=Richard H. |author-link=Richard H. Wilkinson |title=The complete gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt |publication-place=New York |date=2003 |isbn=0-500-05120-8 |oclc=51668000}}</ref> and Nhb-K3w<ref name=nageh>{{Cite journal|last=Omar Ali|first=Nageh|date=1 January 2012|title=The God Nehebkau in Heliopolis (المعبود نحب-كاو في هليوبوليس)|journal=Abgadiyat|volume=7|issue=1|pages=32–38|doi=10.1163/22138609-00701003|issn=1687-8280}}</ref> – has been translated in many ways by Egyptologists. These translations include: "that which gives Ka";<ref name=nageh/> "he who harnesses the spirits";<ref name=wilkinson/> the "overturner of doubles";<ref name=bates>{{Cite journal|last=Bates|first=Oric|author-link=Oric Bates|date=October 1919|title=The Mythology of all Races. (Louis Herbert Gray, Editor; George Foote Moore, Consulting Editor.) Vol. XII, Egyptian: W. Max Müller, Ph.D.; Indo-Chinese: SirJ. G. Scott, K.C.I.E. Marshall Jones Co.1918. Pp. xiv, 540.|journal=Harvard Theological Review|volume=12|issue=4|pages=464–469|doi=10.1017/s0017816000010956|s2cid=162234979 |issn=0017-8160|url=https://zenodo.org/record/2031530}}</ref> "collector of souls";<ref name=nageh/> "provider of goods and foods"<ref name=nageh/> and "bestower of dignities".<ref name=shorter>{{Cite journal|last=Shorter|first=Alan W.|date=September 1935|title=The God Neḥebkau|journal=The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology|volume=21|issue=1|pages=41–48 |doi=10.1177/030751333502100105|s2cid=192409512|issn=0307-5133}}</ref>
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