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May 18, 2024, 12:01 am UTC    
December 03, 2009 11:26AM
Using the English-letter/Hieroglyph/Hebrew letter is going to create some problems for you, since not all of them are the same sound (as is implied by that table.)

we see this same kind of transition occur with other names that were translated into Greek (King's list is one area where this problem arises.) It's a struggle to correlate the Greek versions with the Egyptian ones, and no one's sure how the names got changed over the centuries.

However, we do know that people from different cultures pronounce syllables and consonants differently from each other (think of the "Peiking/Beijing/Peping/etc" for the capital of China). The Egyptians seldom included vowels in their words, so the real pronunciation for 'kwfw' could have varied quite a bit from the "khufu" we use.

Also... they may have mashed together two of his names (this is fairly common) or simply changed it because it was too hard for them to pronounce (as happened with many families emigrating to America who had their names changed by immigration officials.) After all, he'd been dead for thousands of years and wasn't around to object or correct.

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