[NYer]

The biblical Jospeph, in the old testement had Epyptian Sons. Perhaps these are the decendents of that tribe of Isreal.

Actually, I think it is more about this ....

Coptic Orthodox Church

[Kolokotronis]

The Church has long taught that the passage from Hosea is a prefiguring of the return of the Hoyl Family from their exile in Egypt when informed by an angel that Herod had died.