From: Antonio Garcia <garcia.secretariagh.antonio1 AT gmail.com>
To: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
Cc: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] "keleb" in Deut.23:18
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:26:32 +0100
Dear James:
This word is related in hierogliphics with a complete ayin (a semicircle engraved) and a beetle, for example in a cartouche of tutankhamon.
Their transliteration (ayin báyit), who guards de house, means kaleb, due to the use of dogs in ancients, but in a positive sense, the pharoah is a men who guards the entire house of Egypt, and their culture. The concept of servant, includes the Pharaoh himself in the service of the temple, he is the first servant.