Editing Pi-HaHiroth

{{short description|Fourth station of the Exodus}}
'''Pi-HaHiroth''' ({{Lang|hbo|פִּי הַחִירֹת|rtl=yes|italic=no}} ''Pī haḤīrōṯ''),  is the fourth [[Stations of the Exodus|station of the Exodus]] mentioned in {{Bibleverse|Exodus|14:2|ESV}}. The fifth and sixth stations [[Marah (Bible)|Marah]] and [[Elim (Bible)|Elim]] are located on the [[Red Sea]]. The biblical books [[Book of Exodus|Exodus]] and [[Book of Numbers|Numbers]] refer to Pi-HaHiroth as the place where the [[Israelite]]s encamped between [[Migdol]] and the sea, opposite [[Baal Zephon]], while awaiting an attack by the [[Pharaohs_in_the_Bible#In_the_Book_of_Exodus|Pharaoh]], prior to [[crossing the Red Sea]].<ref>{{bibleverse|Exodus|14:2|KJV}} and {{bibleverse|Numbers|33:7|KJV}}</ref>

==Etymology==
Some [[Egyptology|Egyptologists]] think the name reflects the Egyptian ''pr-ḥwt-ḥrt'', a place mentioned in ''Papyrus Anastasis III''.<ref name="Falk">{{Cite book |title=Behind the Scenes of the Old Testament: Cultural, Social, and Historical Contexts |last=Falk |first=David A. |publisher=Baker Academic |year=2018 |isbn=9781493415540 |pages=197-199 |editor-last=Greer |editor-first=Jonathan S. |chapter=The Egyptian Sojourn and the Exodus |editor-last2=Hilber |editor-first2=John W. |editor-last3=Walton |editor-first3=John H. |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VwxYDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT329}}</ref> In fact, part of the mystery can be resolved by understanding the initial syllable ′Pi,′ which corresponds to the Egyptian word ''Pr'' or ''Pi'', as ''House of'' such as in ′''[[Pithom]]''′ or ′''[[Pi-Ramesses]]''′. The next literary fragment ′Ha′ (''ḥwt'') would indicate the ′temple′, representing an Egyptian convention beginning with the hieroglyphic ''pr-ḥwt'', “estate of the temple”, while the fact that the name ends with the goddess determinative indicates that the final element, ''ḥrt'', is [[Theophoric name|theophoric]].<ref name="Falk" />{{rp|199}}

The [[Revised Version]] of the [[Bible]] at the first use of the name Pi-HaHiroth has a link to a footnote that says "Or, where the desert tracks begin".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Clements |first=R. E. (Ronald Ernest) |url=http://archive.org/details/exodus00ntar |title=Exodus |date=1972 |publisher=Cambridge [Eng.] Cambridge University Press |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-521-08218-1 |language=English}}</ref>

==Identification==
The Egyptologist David A. Falk suggests that Pi-HaHiroth was located somewhere on the way from the [[Sea of Reeds]] (''pȜ ṯwfy'') towards [[Pi-Ramesses]], based on the description of the site's location in ''Papyrus Anastasis III''.<ref>Falk, D. A. (2018). [https://www.thetorah.com/article/what-we-know-about-the-egyptian-places-mentioned-in-exodus "What We Know about the Egyptian Places Mentioned in Exodus"]. ''TheTorah.com''.</ref> ''[[Strong's Concordance]]'' simply locates Pi-HaHiroth as 'a place on the eastern border of Egypt'.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://biblehub.com/hebrew/6367.htm|title = Strong's Hebrew: 6367. פִּי (Pi Hachiroth) -- a place on the e. Border of Egypt}}</ref>

==References==
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{{Stations of the Exodus}}

[[Category:Egypt in the Hebrew Bible]]
[[Category:Crossing the Red Sea]]
[[Category:Book of Numbers]]