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I still remember my fifth grade  rebbe, Rabbi A. Y. Berman, asking the one-hundred-dollar question: Why does the Torah sometimes refer to the Egyptian monarch as  Melech Mitzrayim (“the King of Egypt”) and sometimes as  Pharaoh (“the Pharaoh”)? The term  Melech Mitzrayim appears in the Bible close to fifty times, while the word  Pharaoh appears a whopping 274 times! In six cases, both names are used together:  Pharaoh Melech Mitzrayim (Ex. 6:11; 6:13; 6:29; 14:8, I Kgs. 3:1, ...