Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

I am just recalling that my shrewd friend Gillie raised in school in  
Bible class the possibility that the name CAPNAT comes from the  
Hebrew CAPON, 'north'. Joseph had to remind the Egyptians so often  
that he is from the north, accounting for his blond hair, blue eyes,  
and his otherwise exceptionally good looks, that they nicknamed him  
"the Nordic", or in his own words CAPNAT.
Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Feb 27, 2008, at 1:22 PM, JimStinehart AT aol.com wrote:

> 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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