Φαραώ
ὅπλον μέγιστόν ἐστιν ἡ ἀρετή βροτοῖς → man's greatest weapon is virtue, virtue is the greatest weapon for mortals
English (Strong)
of foreign origin (פַּרְעֹה); Pharao (i.e. Pharoh), an Egyptian king: Pharaoh.
English (Thayer)
(פַּרְעֹה; in Josephus, Antiquities 2,13,14 Φαραωθης (also Φαραων, Φαρωνος, 8,6, 2, etc.)), ὁ (indeclinable, Buttmann, 15 (14)), Pharaoh, the common title of the ancient kings of Egypt (ὁ φαραων κατ' Αἰγυπτίους βασιλέα σημαίνει, Josephus, Antiquities 8,6, 2 (according to Ebers (in Riehm, under the word Pharao) the name is only the Hebrew form of the Egyptian per-aa denoting (as even Horapollo 1,62testifies) great house, a current title of kings akin to the Turkish sublime porte; others besides; see BB. DD., under the word)): Φαραώ, with βασιλεύς Αἰγύπτου added in apposition (as if Φαραώ were a proper name, as sometimes in the O. T.: מִצְרַיִם מֶלֶך פַּרעֹה, Herzog xi., p. 490ff; (Ebers in Riehm as above).
