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or Allah (Ilah) was lost due to a word taboo much like YHWH. During this time the ancient Semitic term for a ruler or lord, n-g-s (from Proto-Semitic ?ngl 'to push, press for work'), began to mean "king." Along with that term, in the early Ethiopian state of D'mt the South Semitic term Mukarrib (priest-king), mostly associated with the Kingdom of Sheba,

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