Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Peter Kirk"<peter_kirk AT sil.org>]

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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