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Pharaoh using force to restrain leaders of Hebrew exodus (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

cheops

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'pharaoh' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'force to restrain leaders of hebrew exodus' is the wordplay.
'force' becomes 'cops' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'to restrain' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'leaders of' says to take the initial letters.
The first letters of 'hebrew exodus' is 'he'.
'cops' going around 'he' is 'CHEOPS'.

'using' is the link.

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(Other definitions for cheops that I've seen before include "Monumental builder" , "one buried in a huge monument" , "Pharaoh" .)

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