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  • From: "Peter Kirk"<peter_kirk AT sil.org>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re[2]: Moses, Ahmoses, Khamudy
  • Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 15:13:11 -0500


Surely a much more probable hypothesis is that the Hebrew Moshe is an
abbreviation of the common Egyptian <god's-name>-mose e.g. Ahmose,
Thutmose, Rameses. -mose means "born of", "son of". No doubt at some
stage the Israelites dropped the pagan Egyptian god's name and
abbreviated to Moshe.

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Re: Moses, Ahmoses, Khamudy
Author: <gathas AT mail.usyd.edu.au> at Internet
Date: 09/02/2000 08:59


> I note that the last reigning Hyksos king is called Khamudy. What is the
> chance that Moses is a transformation of Khamudy ? Could Kha- be a lost
> gutteral like Gai (LXX) and Ai (MT) or Ghumri (Assyrian, rendered with a
> curved diacritical under the H) and Omri (MT) ? Could Egyptian d be
> transliterated into a Semitic z whence an s arose later, thus,
> (Kha-) muzy, -musy, Hebrew Moshe (Greek Moses) ? Let's hear it from the
> linguists, plausible or implausible, and why ?

If the initial consonant had been a gayin, it would still be preserved as an
ayi
n in
Hebrew, as in the name for Gomorrah (Heb: `amorrah) or Gaza (Heb: `azzah).
Then
you have
the large linguistic stretch of identifying zayin/dh/d with a shin in Hebrew.
It
never
happens. It just doesn't work.

Best regards,
George Athas
Dept of Semitic Studies,
University of Sydney
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