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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 EgyptGenesis 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׳ בואIsaiah 19:23, לְמ׳ בוא † Jeremiah 44:218; מ׳ מ׳שׁוּב Hoshea 8:3 + 9 times, אֶל־מ׳ שׁוּב † Hoshea 11:5, שׁוּב מ׳ לְאַרְצוֹJeremiah 37:7; מ׳ בָּרַח1 Kings 11:40; מ׳ שָׁלַחJeremiah 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׳ פָּדָה2 Samuel 7:23 (but de. Gei Urschr. 288 We Dr Kit Bu) = 1 Chronicles 17:21; מִמּ׳ בּוֹא2 Chronicles 12:3; 2 Chronicles 20:10; מִמּ׳ שׁוּבJeremiah 44:28; 2 Chronicles 10:2; מִמּ׳ אָתָהPsalm 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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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

Page 12 / 12 (Hos 11:1–Zec 14:19)

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:1 -

When Israel was a youth I loved him,

And out of Egypt H4714 I called My son.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:5 -

[fn]They will not return to the land of Egypt H4714;

But Assyria—he will be [fn]their king

Because they refused to return to Me.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:11 -

They will come trembling like birds from Egypt H4714,

And like doves from the land of Assyria;

And I will settle them in their houses, declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:1 -

[fn]Ephraim feeds on wind,

And pursues the east wind continually;

He multiplies lies and violence.

Moreover, [fn]he makes a covenant with Assyria,

And oil is brought to Egypt H4714.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:9 -

But I have been the LORD your God since the land of Egypt H4714;

I will make you live in tents again,

As in the days of the appointed festival.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:13 -

But by a prophet the LORD brought Israel up from Egypt H4714,

And by a prophet he was protected.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:4 -

Yet I have been the LORD your God

Since the land of Egypt H4714;

And you were not to know any god except Me,

For there is no savior besides Me.

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:19 -

Egypt H4714 will become a wasteland,

And Edom will become a desolate wilderness,

Because of the violence [fn]done to the sons of Judah,

In whose land they have shed innocent blood.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:10 -

“And it was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt H4714,

And led you in the wilderness for forty years

So that you might take possession of the land of the Amorite.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:1 -

Hear this word which the LORD has spoken against you, sons of Israel, against the entire [fn]family which [fn]He brought up from the land of Egypt H4714:

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:9 -

Proclaim on the citadels in Ashdod and on the citadels in the land of Egypt H4714 and say, “Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria and see the great panic within her and the oppressions in her midst.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:10 -

“I sent a plague among you [fn]as in Egypt H4714;

I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses,

And I made the stench of your camp rise up in your nostrils;

Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:8 -

“Because of this will the land not quake,

And everyone who lives in it mourn?

Indeed, all of it will rise up like the Nile,

And it will be tossed about

And subside like the Nile of Egypt H4714.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:5 -

The Lord [fn]GOD of armies,

The One who touches the land so that it quakes,

And all those who live in it mourn,

And all of it rises up like the Nile

And subsides like the Nile of Egypt H4714;

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:7 -

“Are you not as the sons of Ethiopia to Me,

You sons of Israel?” declares the LORD.

“Have I not brought up Israel from the land of Egypt H4714,

And the Philistines from Caphtor and the Arameans from Kir?

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:4 -

“Indeed, I brought you up from the land of Egypt H4714,

I redeemed you from the house of slavery,

And I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:15 -

“As in the days when you went out from the land of Egypt H4714,

I will show [fn]you miracles.”

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:9 -

Ethiopia was her might,

Egypt H4714 too, without limits.

Put and Lubim were among [fn]her helpers.

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:5 - ‘As for the [fn]promise which I [fn]made you when you came out of Egypt H4714, [fn]My Spirit remains in your midst; do not fear!’
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:10 -

“I will bring them back from the land of Egypt H4714

And gather them from Assyria;

And I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon

[fn]Until no room can be found for them.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:11 -

“And they will pass through the sea of distress

And He will strike the waves in the sea,

So that all the depths of the Nile will dry up;

And the pride of Assyria will be brought down,

And the scepter of Egypt H4714 will depart.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:18 - And if the family of Egypt H4714 does not go up or enter, then no rain will fall on them; it will be the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:19 - This will be the [fn]punishment of Egypt H4714, and the [fn]punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.

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