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The finding of Moses, by Edwin Long
Moses' name
• According to the Hebrew Bible, the name Moses comes from the Hebrew word meaning
"to pull out of water". Moses also led the Israelites across the Red Sea, which would also
show deliverance out of water.
• Some medieval Jewish scholars had suggested that Moses' actual name was the Egyptian
translation of "to draw out", and that it was translated into Hebrew, either by the Bible, or
by Moses himself later in his lifetime.
• Some modern scholars had suggested that the daughter of the pharaoh might have derived
his name from the Egyptian word moses, which means "son" or "formed of" or "has
provided"; for example, "Thutmose" means "son of Thoth", and Rameses means "Ra has
provided (a son)".
• A growing number of critical scholars believe that Moses actually had a full Egyptian
name, consisting of the root word moses and the name of a god (similar to Rameses), but
the name of the god was later dropped, either when he assimilated into Hebrew culture or
by later scribes who were dismayed that their greatest prophet had such an Egyptian name.
• In ancient Egyptian language, the word "Mo" meant "water" while the word "Sa" meant
"son". His complete name "Mosa" would mean "the son of water" as he was found in a
basket in water. If this were the etymology, however, it would likely have been transcribed
as Samo.
• A more likely justification from the Egyptian language is the preposition "m" means from
or with. The Egyptian word "sh" means lake or pool, thus "Moshe," the biblical name
would be translated as "from the lake or pool." It is important when using this justification
to understand that Ancient Egyptian, like modern Hebrew had no vowels in the written
form, so the consonant cluster m-sh,which could be understood as "from the pool" could
very well have been spoken as "Moshe" in Moses' time.
• Amongst the Aramaeans and Neo-Hittites of the northern Sam'al Yaudi state there is
mention of an ancestral culture hero Moschos, linked to the Greek hero Mopsus (whose
name means "calf"), who has certain similarities to parts of the Moses [14] these similarities
are only being in a similar location and having a similar name.
Shepherd in Midian
Moses with the Tablets, 1659, by Rembrandt