Definitions for Hyksos

Hyksos Hyk·sos

Spelling: [hik-sohs, -sos]
IPA: /ˈhɪk soʊs, -sɒs/

Hyksos is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in Hyksos (hkossy).

Definitions for Hyksos

noun

  1. a nomadic people who conquered and ruled ancient Egypt between the 13th and 18th dynasties, c1700–1580 b.c.: believed to have been a Semitic people that originally migrated into Egypt from Asia.

Origin of Hyksos

1595-1605; Greek Hyksṓs, perhaps Egyptian ḥg(ʾ) ruler + h̬ʾst foreign land

Examples for Hyksos

The earth-tillers and the Hyksos, I say, worthiness, are like an ox and a bull.

It was the main seat of the Hyksos, who embellished it in every possible way.

A settlement of Hittites there in the Hyksos days would account for this.

At the outset all Egypt was compelled to submit to the Hyksos domination.

The cowroids, with a rope border on the back, are of the Hyksos period.

Moreover, statues and sphinxes of the Hyksos period are also found here.

It was while the Hyksos kings were reigning that Abraham visited the Delta.

The duration of the Hyksos rule is thus left in some uncertainty.

Of the Hyksos, the so-called 'Shepherd Kings', little is known.

It was the favorite residence of the Shepherd Kings or Hyksos.

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