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Lexicon :: Strong's G125 - aigyptos

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Αἴγυπτος
Transliteration
aigyptos (Key)
Pronunciation
ah'-ee-goop-tos
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of uncertain derivation
Strong’s Definitions

Αἴγυπτος Aígyptos, ah'-ee-goop-tos; of uncertain derivation; Ægyptus, the land of the Nile:—Egypt.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 24x

The KJV translates Strong's G125 in the following manner: Egypt (24x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 24x
The KJV translates Strong's G125 in the following manner: Egypt (24x).

  1. Egypt = "double straits"

    1. a country occupying the northeast angle of Africa

    2. metaph. Jerusalem, for the Jews persecuting the Christ and his followers, and so to be likened to the Egyptians treating the Jews

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
Αἴγυπτος Aígyptos, ah'-ee-goop-tos; of uncertain derivation; Ægyptus, the land of the Nile:—Egypt.
STRONGS G125:
Αἴγυπτος, -ου, ἡ, [always without the article, Buttmann, 87 (76); Winers Grammar, § 18, 5 a.], the proper name of a well-known country, Egypt: Matthew 2:13; Acts 2:10; Hebrews 3:16, etc.; more fully γῆ Αἴγυπτος, Acts 7:36 [not L WH Tr text], Acts 7:40; Acts 13:17; Hebrews 8:9; Jude 1:5 (Exodus 5:12; Exodus 6:26, etc.; 1 Macc. 1:19; Baruch 1:19f, etc.); ἡ γῆ Αἴγυπτος, Acts 7:11; ἐν Αἰγύπτου namely, γῆ, Hebrews 11:26 Lachmann, but cf. Bleek at the passage; Buttmann, 171 (149); [Winer's Grammar, 384 (359)]. In Revelation 11:8 Αἴγυπτος is figuratively used for Jerusalem, i. e. for the Jewish nation viewed as persecuting Christ and his followers, and so to be likened to the Egyptians in their ancient hostility to the true God and their endeavors to crush his people.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Exodus
5:12; 6:26
Matthew
2:13
Acts
2:10; 7:11; 7:36; 7:40; 13:17
Hebrews
3:16; 8:9; 11:26
Jude
1:5
Revelation
11:8

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G125 matches the Greek Αἴγυπτος (aigyptos),
which occurs 568 times in 522 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 11 (Gen 12:10–Gen 46:7)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:10 - Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:11 - As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “I know what a beautiful woman you are.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:14 - When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was a very beautiful woman.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:1 - So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:10 - Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:18 - On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi[fn] of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates—

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:21 - While he was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:18 - His descendants settled in the area from Havilah to Shur, near the eastern border of Egypt, as you go toward Ashur. And they lived in hostility toward[fn] all the tribes related to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:2 - The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:25 - As they sat down to eat their meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were loaded with spices, balm and myrrh, and they were on their way to take them down to Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:28 - So when the Midianite merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and sold him for twenty shekels[fn] of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:36 - Meanwhile, the Midianites[fn] sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:1 - Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. Potiphar, an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:1 - Some time later, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt offended their master, the king of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:5 - each of the two men—the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were being held in prison—had a dream the same night, and each dream had a meaning of its own.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:8 - In the morning his mind was troubled, so he sent for all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:19 - After them, seven other cows came up—scrawny and very ugly and lean. I had never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:29 - Seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:30 - but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will ravage the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:33 - “And now let Pharaoh look for a discerning and wise man and put him in charge of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:34 - Let Pharaoh appoint commissioners over the land to take a fifth of the harvest of Egypt during the seven years of abundance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:36 - This food should be held in reserve for the country, to be used during the seven years of famine that will come upon Egypt, so that the country may not be ruined by the famine.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:41

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:41 - So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I hereby put you in charge of the whole land of Egypt.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:43

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:43 - He had him ride in a chariot as his second-in-command,[fn] and people shouted before him, “Make way[fn]!” Thus he put him in charge of the whole land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:44

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:44 - Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, but without your word no one will lift hand or foot in all Egypt.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:46

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:46 - Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from Pharaoh’s presence and traveled throughout Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:48

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:48 - Joseph collected all the food produced in those seven years of abundance in Egypt and stored it in the cities. In each city he put the food grown in the fields surrounding it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:53

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:53 - The seven years of abundance in Egypt came to an end,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:54

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:54 - and the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all the other lands, but in the whole land of Egypt there was food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:55

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:55 - When all Egypt began to feel the famine, the people cried to Pharaoh for food. Then Pharaoh told all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph and do what he tells you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:57

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:57 - And all the world came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was severe everywhere.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:1 - When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why do you just keep looking at each other?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:2 - He continued, “I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:3 - Then ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:2 - So when they had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us a little more food.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:15 - So the men took the gifts and double the amount of silver, and Benjamin also. They hurried down to Egypt and presented themselves to Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:4 - Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Come close to me.” When they had done so, he said, “I am your brother Joseph, the one you sold into Egypt!

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:8 - “So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God. He made me father to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household and ruler of all Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:9 - Now hurry back to my father and say to him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; don’t delay.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:13 - Tell my father about all the honor accorded me in Egypt and about everything you have seen. And bring my father down here quickly.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:18 - and bring your father and your families back to me. I will give you the best of the land of Egypt and you can enjoy the fat of the land.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:19 - “You are also directed to tell them, ‘Do this: Take some carts from Egypt for your children and your wives, and get your father and come.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:20 - Never mind about your belongings, because the best of all Egypt will be yours.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:23 - And this is what he sent to his father: ten donkeys loaded with the best things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and other provisions for his journey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:25 - So they went up out of Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:26 - They told him, “Joseph is still alive! In fact, he is ruler of all Egypt.” Jacob was stunned; he did not believe them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:3 - “I am God, the God of your father,” he said. “Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:4 - I will go down to Egypt with you, and I will surely bring you back again. And Joseph’s own hand will close your eyes.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:6 - So Jacob and all his offspring went to Egypt, taking with them their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:7 - Jacob brought with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons and his daughters and granddaughters—all his offspring.

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