It may be interesting to note how the Canaanite word for “Egypt” appears
in the Amarna Letters, in Akkadian-style cuneiform. Here is Amarna Letter
EA 289: 34, from IR-Heba, the Hurrian princeling ruler of Jerusalem:
KUR mi-ic-ri.KI
[Notes: (i) KUR is “land”; c = ssade; KI is “place”.]
The three key consonants are MCR. The Hebrew rendering, of course, is
MCRYM [for example at Genesis 12: 10].
Jim Stinehart
Evanston, Illinois
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