צפנת פענח

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Hebrew

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Etymology

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Uncertain, ostensibly Egyptian in origin. Egyptologists have interpreted the final element of the name as containing the Egyptian word ꜥnḫ "life"; in 1889 Georg Steindorff offered a tentative full reconstruction of *ḏd-pꜣ-nṯr-jw.f-ꜥnḫ, “the god speaks [and] he lives”.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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צָפְנַת פַּעְנֵחַ (tsofnat pa'neakh)

  1. Zaphnath-Paaneah, an epithet of Joseph.