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  • From: JimStinehart AT aol.com
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  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Micrayim vs Misr and Syria
  • Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 11:48:26 -0400 (EDT)

It may be interesting to note how the Canaanite word for “Egypt” appears in the Amarna Letters, in Akkadian-style cuneiform.  Here is Amarna Letter EA 289: 34, from IR-Heba, the Hurrian princeling ruler of Jerusalem:

 

KUR mi-ic-ri.KI

 

[Notes:  (i) KUR is “land”;  c = ssade;  KI is “place”.]

 

The three key consonants are MCR.  The Hebrew rendering, of course, is MCRYM [for example at Genesis 12: 10].

 

Jim Stinehart

Evanston, Illinois




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