Editing Pi-HaHiroth (section)

==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>