A common misinterpretation portrays Pharaoh's daughter as independently merciful without recognizing God's sovereign hand guiding events to thwart Pharaoh's genocidal plan and prepare Moses; another error assumes Moses was completely Egyptianized from infancy, ignoring his Hebrew upbringing by his biological mother who nursed him, which preserved his identity and fueled his later compassion for his people, or treats the naming etymology superficially without connecting it to divine deliverance themes echoed throughout Scripture.
Exodus 2:10
King James Version (1769)
10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
This verse reveals God's providential preservation of Moses, as the child grows under his mother's nursing care before being presented to Pharaoh's daughter, who adopts him as her son and names him Moses, meaning 'drawn out,' because she drew him from the water, positioning him strategically in the Egyptian royal household for his future role as Israel's deliverer despite the threat of Pharaoh's decree to kill Hebrew boys.