Word Summary
Pharaō: Pharaoh, an Eg. king
Original Word: ΦαραώTransliteration: Pharaō
Phonetic Spelling: (far-ah-o')
Part of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable
Short Definition: Pharaoh, an Eg. king
Meaning: Pharaoh -- an Egyptian king
Strong's Concordance
Pharaoh.
Of foreign origin (Par'oh); Pharao (i.e. Pharoh), an Egyptian king -- Pharaoh.
see HEBREW Par'oh
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5328: ΦαραώΦαραώ (
פַּרְעֹה; in
Josephus, Antiquities 2, 13 and 14
Φαραωθης (also
Φαραων,
Φαρωνος, 8, 6, 2, etc.)),
ὁ (indeclinable,
Buttmann, 15 (14)),
Pharaoh, the common title of the ancient kings of Egypt (
ὁ φαραων κατ' Αἰγυπτίους βασιλέα σημαίνει,
Josephus, Antiquities 8, 6, 2 (according to Ebers (in
Riehm, under the word Pharao) the name is only the Hebrew form of the Egyptian per-aa denoting (as even
Horapollo 1, 62 testifies)
great house, a current title of kings akin to the Turkish
sublime porte; others besides; see
BB. DD., under the word)):
Acts 7:13, 21;
Romans 9:17;
Hebrews 11:24;
Φαραώ, with
βασιλεύς Αἰγύπτου added in apposition (as if
Φαραώ were a proper name, as sometimes in the O. T.:
מִצְרַיִם מֶלֶך פַּרעֹה,
1 Kings 3:1;
1 Kings 9:16;
; Isaiah 36:6, etc.; 1 Esdr. 1:23), Acts 7:10. Cf. Vaihinger in Herzog xi., p. 490ff; (Ebers in Riehm as above).