Hyksos
pronunciation
How to pronounce Hyksos in British English:
UK [ˈhiksɔs]
How to pronounce Hyksos in American English:
US [ˈhɪksos, -sɑs]
Word Origin
- Hyksos
- c. 1600, 15th dynasty of Egyptian kings (1650-1558 B.C.E.), called "Shepherd Kings," from Greek Hyksos, from Egyptian, either hiq shasu "ruler of nomads," or heqa khoswe "chief of foreign lands."
Example
- 1. They had now acquired the war-horse and the war-chariot , which the hyksos had brought to them .
- 2. Egypt , which had not been closely consolidated before the hyksos invasion , was now a united country ;
- 3. This took place in the time of the hyksos , a semitic race which now held the egyptians in bondage .
- 4. For example , if the exodus occurred during the end of the hyksos era in egypt ( 16th century bc ) , as some scholars believe , then any hyksos records of moses would have been deliberately destroyed by victorious egyptians as they drove the hyksos out of egypt .