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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural A Semitic people who invaded Egypt and ruled it during the 17th and 16th centuries BC. They introduced the horse and chariot into Egypt.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A dynasty of Egyptian kings, often called the
Shepherd kings , of foreign origin, who, according to the narrative of Manetho, ruled for about 500 years, forming the XVth and XVIth dynasties. It is now considered that the XVIth is merely a double of the XVth dynasty, and that the total period of the six Hyksos kings was little more than 100 years. It is supposed that they were Asiatic Semites.
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Examples
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Basing his accounts on unnamed “sacred books” and “popular tales and legends,” Manetho described a massive, brutal invasion of Egypt by foreigners from the east, whom he called Hyksos, an enigmatic Greek form of an Egyptian word that he translated as “shepherd kings” but that actually means “rulers of foreign lands.”
The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001
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Basing his accounts on unnamed “sacred books” and “popular tales and legends,” Manetho described a massive, brutal invasion of Egypt by foreigners from the east, whom he called Hyksos, an enigmatic Greek form of an Egyptian word that he translated as “shepherd kings” but that actually means “rulers of foreign lands.”
The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001
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Basing his accounts on unnamed “sacred books” and “popular tales and legends,” Manetho described a massive, brutal invasion of Egypt by foreigners from the east, whom he called Hyksos, an enigmatic Greek form of an Egyptian word that he translated as “shepherd kings” but that actually means “rulers of foreign lands.”
The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001
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Basing his accounts on unnamed “sacred books” and “popular tales and legends,” Manetho described a massive, brutal invasion of Egypt by foreigners from the east, whom he called Hyksos, an enigmatic Greek form of an Egyptian word that he translated as “shepherd kings” but that actually means “rulers of foreign lands.”
The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001
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The very term Hyksos is suggestive in this connection.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904
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A people known as the Hyksos later seized control of the northern Nile valley, but the New Kingdom arose in the middle of the second millennium B.C. and extended its power all the way to the Euphrates River.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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A people known as the Hyksos later seized control of the northern Nile valley, but the New Kingdom arose in the middle of the second millennium B.C. and extended its power all the way to the Euphrates River.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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A people known as the Hyksos later seized control of the northern Nile valley, but the New Kingdom arose in the middle of the second millennium B.C. and extended its power all the way to the Euphrates River.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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As a junior officer, he had quickly realized that the Hyksos were the new masters of Egypt and that their work must be facilitated as much as possible.
The War of the Crowns Christian Jacq 2002
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The Hyksos was a master of trickery and manipulation, and it would not be easy to lie to him.
The War of the Crowns Christian Jacq 2002
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