Yakubher

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Yakubher (Other spellings: Yaqubhar) was a pharaoh of Egypt around 1600 BCE. As a ruler during Egypt's fragmented Second Intermediate Period Yakubher is difficult to place precisely chronologically though he is usually described as a member of the 15th dynasty as a successor to its founder Sheshi. Yakubher is a member of the Hyksos (a Greek corruption of the Egyptian for 'foreign rulers') elite, who later Egyptians regarded as having conquered the country. The truth may have been a somewhat more benign and gradual process of integration.

The section of the Turin Papyrus dealing with this complex period of Egyptian history is particularly badly damaged and it is unclear whether Yakubher reigned for eight or eighteen years.

Given his probable Semitic origins it might give weight to the suggested (but controversial) link between the Hyksos rulers as Biblical Israelites rather than their usually suggested Canaanite or Phoenician links.

Yakubher's throne name was Mer-user-Re, 'strong is the love of Re'.