Biblical Hebrew Forum

[JimStinehart AT aol.com]

Yitzhak Sapir and Everyone Else:
 
My sincerest apologies.  The first letter in Joseph’s Egyptian name is a 
tsade, not a zayin.
 
That does not change the analysis, however.  A tsade can be an S sound.
 
Joseph’s Egyptian name is:
 
tsade-peh-nun-tav peh-ayin-nun-het
 
I view the tsade (not a zayin) as being “sa”, the peh as being “pa”, and 
the nun-tav as implying “nTr”.
 
In Egyptian, “sa” means “son”, but can be extended to mean “king” or “the 
appointed one”, especially in the super-famous Egyptian phrase “Sa-Ra”.  “Pa”
 means “the”.  “nTr” means “god”.
 
That’s my proposed analysis.  The key is whether the mid-14th century BCE 
Egyptian phrase “pa-nTr” appears in Joseph’s Egyptian name.
 
Once again, my sincerest apologies for setting forth the wrong Hebrew letter 
as the first letter in Joseph’s Egyptian name.  (I honestly do not know how I 
managed to make that mistake, since a tsade looks nothing like a zayin.)
 
Jim Stinehart
Evanston, Illinois




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