Meneptah

American  

[me-nep-tah] / ˈmɛ nɛpˌtɑ /

noun

1. Merneptah.

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Example Sentences

Enna lived under Meneptah, the probable Pharaoh of the Exodus, and his work was thus contemporaneous with the events which brought about the release of the Israelites from their “house of bondage.”

From Project Gutenberg

Thus a monument found at Abydos tells us of a Canaanite from Bashan called Ben-Azan, who received in Egypt the new name of Yu-pa-â and was the father of a vizier of Meneptah, the Pharaoh of the Exodus.

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Between Bubastis and Heliopolis stood Pa-Bailos, and of this town Meneptah ii. says at Thebes that “the country around was not cultivated, but left as pasture for cattle because of the strangers, having been abandoned since the times of old.”

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The sceptre of Seti ii., who followed Meneptah, seems to have dropped into the hands of a usurper, Amon-messu by name: the history of the period is, however, involved in obscurity, and all that is certain is that the empire of Ramses ii. was lost, and that Egypt itself fell into a state of decadence.

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The same hordes which had threatened her in the reign of Meneptah now again attacked her with increased numbers and greater chances of success.

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