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Strong's #6547 - פַּרְעֹה
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- Pharaoh = "great house"
- the common title of the king of Egypt
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פַּרְעֹה Φαράω, Pharaoh, a common title of the ancient kings of Egypt, until the Persian invasion. It is commonly put nakedly, like a pr.n. (Genesis 12:15, 37:36 40:2, seqq.; 41:1, seqq., and so throughout the Pentateuch); more rarely with the addition of the words מֶלֶךְ מִעְרַיִם 1 Kings 3:1; 2 Kings 17:7, 18:21 sometimes with the addition of a particular name, as פַּרְעֹה נְכוֹ מֶלֶךְ מִצְרַיִם 2 Kings 23:29 פַּרְעֹה תָפְרַע מ׳ מ׳ Jeremiah 44:30.-רִכְבֵי פַרְעֹה the chariots of Pharaoh, Song of Solomon 1:9 either as received from Pharaoh, or made like Pharaoh’s. This word properly signifies king in the Egyptian language, as was long ago observed by Josephus (Antiqu. viii. 6, § 2 ), and in Coptic it is written pouro, from ouro ruling, king, with the sign prefixed of the m. gen., whence touro, queen, metouro, dominion (see Jablonskii Opuscc. ed. te Water, i. 374. Scholz, Gram. Ægypt., p. 12, 14; and the remarks on the orthography of this name in the enchorial inscriptions in Kosegarten, De Prisca Ægyptiorum Literatura, p. 17); it was, however, so inflected by the Hebrews that it might seem to be a Phœnicio-Shemitic word, i.q. פֶּרַע prince (from the root פָּרַע), with the addition of the termination הֹ = וֹן.