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Khem

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Proper Noun

1
Letopolis
"The city of Khem, or Kherti. which the Greeks called Letopolis, was situated close to the fork of the Delta."
2
the Egyptian god Min dated
"Khem was a god by whom the productiveness of nature was emblematized."
3
Egypt dated, poetic
"The name of Ham is, in fact, the same as that of Egypt, Khem, or Cham; and Moses may have pointed out the eastern origin of the Egyptians by introducing him as a son of Noah."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Egyptian ḫm (“Letopolis”).

Etymology 2

From a 19th-century misreading of Egyptian mnw (“Min”) as ḫm; the confusion arose because the hieroglyph R22 can function as both a logogram for mnw (“Min”) and a phonogram for ḫm.

Etymology 3

From Ancient Greek Χημίᾱ (Khēmíā) or Bohairic Coptic ⲭⲏⲙⲓ (khēmi, “Egypt”), both ultimately from Egyptian kmt (“Egypt”). The final vowels were apparently dropped to form a closer match to the Biblical Ham. First attested in 1837.

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