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pharaon (s.xii1)

The form faraon is a cross reference to the following entry:

pharaon (s.xii1)

faraon,  faraun;  pharan,  pharaon,  pharaoun,  pharaum,  pharaun;  pharao;  pharon  (pharaam  Anc Test 965 (var.) phraon  Resur (P) 29)  
  FEW:  pharaon 8,366a Gdf: GdfC: TL: DEAF:  faraon F129 DMF:  pharaon  TLF:  pharaon  OED:  Pharaoh n.  MED:  Pharaoh n.  DMLBS:  pharao(h) 2262b

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Bibl.hist.statustheol.namepharaoh, supreme ruler of ancient Egypt (often treated as a personal name)
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  II enveiad signes e merveilles en miliu de tei, o Egipte, en Faraun e en tuz ses serfs  Camb Ps 241.CXXXIV.9
( s.xii3/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Del servise rei Pharaum Guaresis le poeple Isreal  S Gile1 3596
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  Moyses est tut suls el regne Pharaun, N'i puet mie trover de sun frere Aarun  Becket1 1234
( c.1200; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Il menat femme, jo ne sai pas son non, La fille al rei d'Egipte, Faraon (var. (E: s.xiiim) Pharaun)  Anc Test (B) 12420
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiim )  (God) Salvement e sec pié a delivre les (=the Israelites) fist passer iloec u Pharao e tut cil ki par mal les siwirent neerent en mer  Joshua Sermons i 13
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  li pople de Israel fu en Egypte desuz la mein pharaon  Ancren2 132.8
( 1403 )  accordé est [...] que touz hosyers [...] ovesquez les uphaldres quels vendount drape de leyne desore enavaunt averont la charge del pagyne de Moyses et Pharao etc., en la jue de Corpore Christi  YMB i 251

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