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Why blame me? The consensus is that the name is "P'di-Pre", going by the
Petepres of the Septuagint.
HH: Right, but the Septuagint was translated from the Hebrew over a thousand years after the original Hebrew was written, and was translated by Jews living in Egypt. If they were not familiar with the language used over a thousand years earlier, they may not have transcribed the Hebrew reflection of two ancient Egyptian names correctly into Greek.
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