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Lexicon :: Strong's H4714 - miṣrayim

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מִצְרַיִם
Transliteration
miṣrayim
Pronunciation
mits-rah'-yim
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Part of Speech
adjective, proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1235

Strong’s Definitions

מִצְרַיִם Mitsrayim, mits-rah'-yim; dual of H4693; Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt:—Egypt, Egyptians, Mizraim.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 681x

The KJV translates Strong's H4714 in the following manner: Egypt (586x), Egyptian (90x), Mizraim (4x), Egyptians (with H1121) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 681x
The KJV translates Strong's H4714 in the following manner: Egypt (586x), Egyptian (90x), Mizraim (4x), Egyptians (with H1121) (1x).
proper locative noun

  1. Egypt = "land of the Copts"

    1. a country at the northeastern section of Africa, adjacent to Palestine, and through which the Nile flows

      adjective

  2. Egyptians = "double straits"

    1. the inhabitants or natives of Egypt

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מִצְרַיִם Mitsrayim, mits-rah'-yim; dual of H4693; Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt:—Egypt, Egyptians, Mizraim.
STRONGS H4714: Abbreviations
מִצְרַ֫יִם 681 proper name, of a territory and people, feminineExodus 10:7, masculineExodus 12:33, masculine pluralGenesis 41:55 etc. (see below 2), Egypt, Egyptians (Phoenician מצרם; Assyrian Mǔṣŭr(u), Muṣru, Miṣir, DlPar 308 SchrCOT Glossary KGF 246 ff., Tel Amarna Mišrî, WklTA 39 * BezBM 152, and Mašrî Wkll. c.; Arabic bdb059503 Cairo, Egypt (Spiro): Minean Miṣru HomA and A. (1892), 125; see EbÄgM 71 ff.; Greek Version of the LXX Αιγυπτος; — derivatives and form dubious; יִַ֯ם usually regarded as dual term. (Upper and Lower Egypt? compare DiGenesis 10:6), but as locative ending EMeyGeschichte. I, § 42 BaNB p. 319 R. 5; JenZA iv (1889), 268 ff. thinks מִצְרַיִם absolute formed by analogy of מַיִם, שָׁמַיִם from Miṣrî (compare Tel Amarna); see further Wklinfra, near the end); — מ׳ Genesis 13:1 +; מִצְרָ֑יִם Genesis 37:36 +; מִצְרַיְמָה Genesis 12:10 + 12 times, מִצְרָ֑יְמָה Genesis 12:11 + 14 times; —
1.
a. of land, Egypt Genesis 13:1 + 500 times, +, in all periods, including אֶרֶץ מ׳ Genesis 13:10 + approximately + 220 times (of course feminine, Genesis 47:6, 13); אַדְמַת מ׳ the soil of Egypt † Genesis 47:20, 26; מֵימֵי מ׳ † Exodus 7:19; Exodus 8:2; נְהַר מ׳ † Genesis 15:18; יְאֹר מ׳ † Amos 8:8; Amos 9:5; יְאֹרֵי מ׳ † Isaiah 7:18 (compare מָצוֺר); שִׁיחוֺר מ׳ † 1 Chronicles 13:5; לְשׁוֺן יָםמֿ׳ † Isaiah 11:15; נַחַל מ׳ Joshua 15:4 + 6 times (see these various words); land as productive Genesis 45:20; Genesis 49:23, compare שֵׁשׁ בְּרִקְמָה מִמּ׳ Ezekiel 27:7, אֵטוּן מ׳ Proverbs 7:16; often || בּוּשׁ, especially in prophets and poetry Isaiah 20:3, 4, 5; Isaiah 45:14; Ezekiel 30:4, 9 +; || אַשּׁוּר Hosea 11:11; Hosea 12:1; Isaiah 7:18; Jeremiah 2:18 +; including Upper Egypt (פַּתְרוֹם), as well as Lower, Jeremiah 44:1, compare Ezekiel 29:10; Ezekiel 30:6; apparently distinguished from Upper Egypt Isaiah 11:11, and possibly also Jeremiah 44:15 (compare Gf Gie Buhl SS CheHpt Isaiah); but פתרוס etc. in these verses somewhat dubious (compare B. Du Gie).
b. combinations are:
(1) מ׳ as limit of motion: מצרימ(ה)יָרַד Genesis 43:15; Joshua 24:4 + with + 12 times; מ׳ בּוֹא + with + 26 times, בְמ׳ בוא † Isaiah 19:23, לְמ׳ בוא † Jeremiah 44:218; מ׳ מ׳שׁוּב Hoshea 8:3 + 9 times, אֶל־מ׳ שׁוּב † Hoshea 11:5, שׁוּב מ׳ לְאַרְצוֹ † Jeremiah 37:7; מ׳ בָּרַח † 1 Kings 11:40; מ׳ שָׁלַח † Jeremiah 26:22; so (+אֶל־) Jeremiah 26:22. In Jeremiah 42:16b read בְּמ׳ with Gie.
(2) מ׳ as point of departure (הֶעֱלָה) מ׳ מִן־(אִרץ) עָלָה Genesis 13:1 + with + 43 times; יָצָא (הוֹצִיא) מ׳ מִן־(ארץ) Exodus 12:39 + with + 96 times; מִמּ׳ פָּדָה † 2 Samuel 7:23 (but de. Gei Urschr. 288 We Dr Kit Bu) = 1 Chronicles 17:21; מִמּ׳ בּוֹא † 2 Chronicles 12:3; 2 Chronicles 20:10; מִמּ׳ שׁוּב † Jeremiah 44:28; 2 Chronicles 10:2; מִמּ׳ אָתָה † Psalm 68:32; מִמּ׳ † קָרָא † Hoshea 11:1.
2. of people:
a. in table of nations, personified as second son of Ham † Genesis 10:6 = 1 Chronicles 1:8, compare Genesis 10:13 = 1 Chronicles 1:11.
b. = Egypt (as a people), Egyptians Genesis 41:56 + approximately + 134 times, including use = Egyptian Kingdom, empire, i.e. land and people as political power; so with verb feminine singular אָֽבְדָה מ׳ Exodus 10:7, compare Hosea 9:6; Joel 4:19 and (pronoun feminine singular) Ezekiel 30:18; with verb masculine singular Exodus 12:33; Exodus 14:25; Isaiah 19:16, 23, 25; Jeremiah 46:8; often with verb masculine plural Genesis 41:55; Isaiah 19:21, 23 + 22 times; בִּנֵי מ׳ Ezekiel 16:26; בְּתוּלַת בַּת מ׳ Jeremiah 46:11, compare Jeremiah 46:19; Jeremiah 46:24. — In 1 Kings 10:28 2 Chronicles 1:16, 17; 2 Kings 7:6 WklAlttest. Unters. 171 f. thinks of Assyrian Muṣri in North Syria. (On מִצְרַיִם as often = Muṣri in North Arabia see WklAltor. Unters. i. 24 ff., ii. 195, iii. 289; iv. 337 f; MVG 1898, 1.4).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

10:6; 10:6; 10:13; 12:10; 12:11; 13:1; 13:1; 13:1; 13:10; 15:18; 37:36; 41:55; 41:55; 41:56; 43:15; 45:20; 47:6; 47:13; 47:20; 47:26; 49:23

Exodus

7:19; 8:2; 10:7; 10:7; 12:33; 12:33; 12:39; 14:25

Joshua

15:4; 24:4

2 Samuel

7:23

1 Kings

10:28; 11:40

2 Kings

7:6

1 Chronicles

1:8; 1:11; 13:5; 17:21

2 Chronicles

1:16; 1:17; 10:2; 12:3; 20:10

Psalms

68:32

Proverbs

7:16

Isaiah

7:18; 7:18; 11:11; 11:15; 19:16; 19:21; 19:23; 19:23; 19:23; 19:25; 20:3; 20:4; 20:5; 45:14

Jeremiah

2:18; 26:22; 26:22; 37:7; 42:16; 44:1; 44:15; 44:28; 46:8; 46:11; 46:19; 46:24

Ezekiel

16:26; 27:7; 29:10; 30:4; 30:6; 30:9; 30:18

Hosea

9:6; 11:11; 12:1

Amos

8:8; 9:5

H4714

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Strong's Number H4714 matches the Hebrew מִצְרַיִם (miṣrayim),
which occurs 639 times in 573 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 12 (Gen 46:3–Exo 5:12)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:3 - And He said, “I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt H4714, for I will make you a great nation there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:4 - “I Myself will go down with you to Egypt H4714, and I Myself will also bring you up again; and Joseph will [fn]close your eyes with his hand.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:6 - And they took their livestock and their possessions, which they had accumulated in the land of Canaan, and they came to Egypt H4714, Jacob and all his seed with him:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:7 - his sons and his grandsons with him, his daughters and his granddaughters, and all his seed he brought with him to Egypt H4714.

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Now these are the names of the sons of Israel—of Jacob and his sons—who were coming to Egypt H4714: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:20 - Now to Joseph in the land of Egypt H4714 were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:26 - All the persons belonging to Jacob, who came to Egypt H4714, who came out of his loins, excluding the wives of Jacob’s sons, were sixty-six persons in all,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:27 - and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt H4714 were [fn]two; all the persons of the house of Jacob, who came to Egypt H4714, were seventy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:6 - “The land of Egypt H4714 is [fn]at your disposal; have your father and your brothers settle in the best of the land, let them settle in the land of Goshen; and if you know any excellent men among them, then [fn]put them in charge of my livestock.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:11 - So Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt H4714, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

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Now there was no [fn]food in all the land because the famine was very heavy, so that the land of Egypt H4714 and the land of Canaan languished because of the famine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:14 - And Joseph gathered all the money that was found in the land of Egypt H4714 and in the land of Canaan for the grain which they bought, and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:15 - Then the money came to an end in the land of Egypt H4714 and in the land of Canaan. So all the Egyptians H4714 came to Joseph [fn]and said, “Give us [fn]food, for why should we die in your presence? For our money [fn]is gone.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:20 -

So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt H4714 for Pharaoh, for [fn]every Egyptian H4714 sold his field because the famine was severe upon them. Thus the land became Pharaoh’s.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:21 - As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of Egypt’s H4714 border to the other end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:26 - And Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt H4714 valid to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; only the land of the priests [fn]did not become Pharaoh’s.

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Now Israel [fn]lived in the land of Egypt H4714, [fn]in Goshen, and they took possession of property in it and were fruitful and became very numerous.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:28 - And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt H4714 seventeen years; so the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were 147 years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:29 -

Then the days for Israel to die drew near, and he called his son Joseph and said to him, “Please, if I have found favor in your sight, place now your hand under my thigh and deal with me in lovingkindness and truth. Please do not bury me in Egypt H4714.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:30 - “But I will lie down with my fathers, and you will carry me out of Egypt H4714 and bury me in their burial place.” And he said, “I will do as you have said.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:5 - “So now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt H4714 before I came to you in Egypt H4714, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:7 -

So Joseph went up to bury his father, and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt H4714,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:14 - After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt H4714, he and his brothers, and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.

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Now Joseph stayed in Egypt H4714, he and his father’s household, and Joseph lived 110 years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:26 - So Joseph died at the age of 110 years; and they embalmed him, and he was placed in a coffin in Egypt H4714.

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Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt H4714 with Jacob; they came each one [fn]with his household:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:5 - And all the [fn]persons who came from the loins of Jacob were seventy [fn]in number, but Joseph was already in Egypt H4714.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:8 -

And a new king arose over Egypt H4714, who did not know Joseph.

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Then the king of Egypt H4714 spoke to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom [fn]was named Shiphrah and the other [fn]was named Puah;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:17 - But the midwives [fn]feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt H4714 had spoken to them, but let the boys live.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:18 - So the king of Egypt H4714 called for the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this thing, and let the boys live?”

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Now it happened in the course of those many days that the king of Egypt H4714 died. And the sons of Israel sighed because of the slavery, and they cried out; and their cry for help because of their slavery rose up to God.

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And Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt H4714, and I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sufferings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:8 - “So I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians H4714 and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:9 - “So now, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me; and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians H4714 are oppressing them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:10 - “So now, come and I will send you to Pharaoh, and so you shall bring My people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt H4714.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:11 - But Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt H4714?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:12 - And He said, “Certainly I will be with you, and this shall be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt H4714, you shall [fn]serve God at this mountain.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:16 - “Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “[fn]I indeed care about you and what has been done to you in Egypt H4714.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:17 - “So I said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt H4714 to the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:18 - “And they will listen to your voice; and you with the elders of Israel will come to the king of Egypt H4714, and you all will say to him, ‘Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So now, please, let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:19 - “But I know that the king of Egypt H4714 will not give you permission to go, except by a strong hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:20 - “So I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt H4714 with all My wondrous deeds which I shall do in the midst of it; and after that he will let you go.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:22 - “But every woman shall ask of her neighbor and of the woman who lives in her house, for articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing; and you will put them on your sons and daughters. Thus you will plunder the Egyptians H4714.”

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Then Moses went and returned to [fn]Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Please, let me go, that I may return to my brothers who are in Egypt H4714 and see if they are still alive.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:19 - And Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, “Go, return to Egypt H4714, for all the men who were seeking your life are dead.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:20 - So Moses took his wife and his sons and mounted them on a donkey and returned to the land of Egypt H4714. Moses also took the staff of God in his hand.

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And Yahweh said to Moses, “When you go to return to Egypt H4714, see to it that all the miraculous wonders which I have put in your hand, that you do them before Pharaoh; but as for Me, I will [fn]harden his heart with strength so that he will not let the people go.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:4 - But the king of Egypt H4714 said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you [fn]draw the people away from their [fn]work? Get back to your [fn]hard labors!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:12 - So the people scattered through all the land of Egypt H4714 to gather stubble for straw.

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