Middle Egyptian Grammar Exercises and Answers Lesson X

Egyptian Lexicography and understanding Moses

by koot van wyk Seoul South Korea 12 January 2009

That Moses spent many years in the court together with the illigitimate street child Thutmosis III (younger than himself) and with their stephmother Hatshepsut, is very likely in the light of the very accurate chronology of the Masoretic tradition. Even Gottwald made the claim that if one has to look for the Biblical Pharoah during the time of the Exodus, one has to look at Thutmosis III.

After Moses killed the Egyptian he fled to Midian. It was during his sojourn in Midian that he wrote Genesis and Job. Job is Moses' masterpiece being a historic epic about the suffering of a person in patriarchal times, probably during the days of Abraham or Izaak, 2160-2000 BCE.

Job is actually a psychologically unwinding of his own problems, he lost his parents, friends and relatives in Egypt. He lost his fame, power, and all the luxuries of the palace of Egypt.

Schools in a number of languages, Moses was fluent in Egyptian. Expressions in Genesis to Deuteronomy and Job is filled with Egyptian ways of expressing things.

Genesis 2:7 "and in his nose, He blew life and the man became unto a soul, living"

Compare in Gardiner Egyptian Grammar, similar ideas.

t3w in Egyptian means "breath" or "wind" and the hieroglyphics actually shows a sail of a boat and a bird together.

The Egyptian word for nose is fnd and the Hebrew word is apyw.

The jump from /p/ to /f/ or vice versa is not that great.

Genesis 2:6 there is a word that appears only two times in the whole Old Testament. w'k. This word also appear in Job 36:27, both books from the hand of Moses.

Actually the word is a hapax legomena and an Middle Age Arabic Lexicon cannot do justice to a word that is nearly 2000 or more years before that.

Middle Egyptian is the answer and Gardiner's Middle Egyptian is a must.

w'k in the beginning of the verse is related to the Middle Egyptian word, i3dty meaning "need" or "lack". A better translation is here in Genesis that "And a need went up from the earth ...."

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