b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Biblical Hebrew Forum

List archive

Re: [b-hebrew] Mis(.)rayim

From: Harold Holmyard <hholmyard3 AT earthlink.net>
To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Mis(.)rayim
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:42:39 -0500

Isaac Fried wrote:

OK, but what is then this Misr- part of Misrayim (as you prefer to spell it)? Is it Hebrew? Is it meaningful? Is it ancient Egyptian? Does it mean mistress?

HAL also mentions an Old Persian cognate: "Mudraœya, Musra"

Yours,
Harold Holmyard

Re: [b-hebrew] Mis(.)rayim, Isaac Fried, 03/22/2007
- Re: [b-hebrew] Mis(.)rayim, Yigal Levin, 03/22/2007
  - Message not available
    - Re: [b-hebrew] Mis(.)rayim, Yigal Levin, 03/22/2007
  - Message not available
    - Re: [b-hebrew] Mis(.)rayim, Harold Holmyard, 03/22/2007
  - Message not available
    - Re: [b-hebrew] Mis(.)rayim, Harold Holmyard, 03/22/2007
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [b-hebrew] Mis(.)rayim, Awohili, 03/22/2007
- Re: [b-hebrew] Mis(.)rayim, Lewis Reich, 03/22/2007
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Mis(.)rayim, Harold Holmyard, 03/22/2007
  - Message not available
    - Re: [b-hebrew] Mis(.)rayim, Isaac Fried, 03/22/2007
      - Re: [b-hebrew] Mis(.)rayim, Yitzhak Sapir, 03/23/2007
- Re: [b-hebrew] Mis(.)rayim, Lewis Reich, 03/22/2007