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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 7 / 12 (Jos 24:5–2Ki 17:7)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:5 - ‘Then I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt H4714 [fn]by what I did in its midst; and afterward I brought you out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:6 - ‘I brought your fathers out of Egypt, H4714 and you came to the sea; and Egypt H4714 pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the [fn]Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:7 - ‘But when they cried out to the LORD, He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them and covered them; and your own eyes saw what I did in Egypt. H4714 And you lived in the wilderness for a long time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:14 - “Now, therefore, [fn]fear the LORD and serve Him in sincerity and [fn]truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the [fn]River and in Egypt, H4714 and serve the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:17 - for the LORD our God is He who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, H4714 from the house of [fn]bondage, and who did these great signs in our sight and preserved us through all the way in which we went and among all the peoples through whose midst we passed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:32 - Now they buried the bones of Joseph, which the sons of Israel brought up from Egypt, H4714 at Shechem, in the piece of ground which Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for one hundred [fn]pieces of money; and they became the inheritance of Joseph’s sons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:1 - Now the angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, “I brought you up out of Egypt H4714 and led you into the land which I have sworn to your fathers; and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:12 - and they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, H4714 and followed other gods from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them; thus they provoked the LORD to anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:8 - that the LORD sent a prophet to the sons of Israel, and he said to them, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘It was I who brought you up from Egypt H4714 and brought you out from the house of [fn]slavery.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:13 - Then Gideon said to him, “O my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about, saying, ‘Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?’ H4714 But now the LORD has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:11 - The LORD said to the sons of Israel, “Did I not deliver you from the Egyptians, H4714 the Amorites, the sons of Ammon, and the Philistines?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:13 - The king of the sons of Ammon said to the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel took away my land when they came up from Egypt, H4714 from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok and the Jordan; therefore, return them peaceably now.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:16 - ‘For when they came up from Egypt, H4714 and Israel went through the wilderness to the [fn]Red Sea and came to Kadesh,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:30 - All who saw it said, “Nothing like this has ever happened or been seen from the day when the sons of Israel came up from the land of Egypt H4714 to this day. Consider it, take counsel and speak up!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:27 - Then a man of God came to Eli and said to him, “Thus says the LORD, ‘Did I not indeed reveal Myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt H4714 in bondage to Pharaoh’s house?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 4:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:8 - “Woe to us! Who shall deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who smote the Egyptians H4714 with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 8:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:8 - “Like all the deeds which they have done since the day that I brought them up from Egypt H4714 even to this day—in that they have forsaken Me and served other gods—so they are doing to you also.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:18 - and he said to the sons of Israel, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘I brought Israel up from Egypt, H4714 and I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians H4714 and from the [fn]power of all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.’

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:6 - Then Samuel said to the people, “It is the LORD who [fn]appointed Moses and Aaron and who brought your fathers up from the land of Egypt. H4714

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:8 - “When Jacob went into Egypt H4714 and your fathers cried out to the LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron [fn]who brought your fathers out of Egypt H4714 and settled them in this place.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:2 - “Thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘I will [fn]punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way while he was coming up from Egypt. H4714

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:6 - Saul said to the Kenites, “Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, so that I do not destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the sons of Israel when they came up from Egypt.” H4714 So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:7 - So Saul [fn]defeated the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, which is [fn]east of Egypt. H4714

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:8 - Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites and the Girzites and the Amalekites; for they were the inhabitants of the land from ancient times, as you come to Shur even as far as the land of Egypt. H4714

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:6 - “For I have not dwelt in a house since the day I brought up the sons of Israel from Egypt, H4714 even to this day; but I have been moving about in a tent, even in a [fn]tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:23 - “And what one nation on the earth is like Your people Israel, whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people and to make a name for Himself, and to do a great thing for You and awesome things for Your land, before Your people whom You have redeemed for Yourself from Egypt, H4714 from nations and their gods?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 3:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:1 - Then Solomon [fn]formed a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, H4714 and took Pharaoh’s daughter and brought her to the city of David until he had finished building his own house and the house of the LORD and the wall around Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 4:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:21 - [fn]Now Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the [fn]River to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt; H4714 they brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 4:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:30 - Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the sons of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt. H4714

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 6:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:1 - Now it came about in the four hundred and eightieth year after the sons of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, H4714 in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv which is the second month, that he [fn]began to build the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:9 - There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the sons of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt. H4714

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:16 - ‘Since the day that I brought My people Israel from Egypt, H4714 I did not choose a city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house that My name might be there, but I chose David to be over My people Israel.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:21 - “There I have set a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD, which He made with our fathers when He brought them from the land of Egypt.” H4714

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:51

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:51 - (for they are Your people and Your inheritance which You have brought forth from Egypt, H4714 from the midst of the iron furnace),

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:53

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:53 - “For You have separated them from all the peoples of the earth as Your inheritance, as You spoke through Moses Your servant, when You brought our fathers forth from Egypt, H4714 O Lord [fn]GOD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:65

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:65 - So Solomon observed the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, H4714 before the LORD our God, for seven days and seven more days, even fourteen days.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:9 - “And they will say, ‘Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, H4714 and adopted other gods and worshiped them and served them, therefore the LORD has brought all this adversity on them.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:16 - For Pharaoh king of Egypt H4714 had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and had given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:28 - Also Solomon’s import of horses was from Egypt H4714 and Kue, and the king’s merchants procured them from Kue for a price.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 10:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:29 - A chariot [fn]was imported from Egypt H4714 for 600 shekels of silver, and a horse for 150; and [fn]by the same means they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of the Arameans.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:17 - that Hadad fled [fn]to Egypt, H4714 he and certain Edomites of his father’s servants with him, while Hadad was a young boy.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:18 - They arose from Midian and came to Paran; and they took men with them from Paran and came to Egypt, H4714 to Pharaoh king of Egypt, H4714 who gave him a house and assigned him food and gave him land.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:21 - But when Hadad heard in Egypt H4714 that David slept with his fathers and that Joab the commander of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Send me away, that I may go to my own country.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:40 - Solomon sought therefore to put Jeroboam to death; but Jeroboam arose and fled to Egypt H4714 to Shishak king of Egypt, H4714 and he was in Egypt H4714 until the death of Solomon.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:2 - Now when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it, [fn]he was living in Egypt H4714 (for he was yet in Egypt, H4714 where he had fled from the presence of King Solomon).

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:28 - So the king [fn]consulted, and made two golden calves, and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem; behold your gods, O Israel, that brought you up from the land of Egypt.” H4714

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:25 - Now it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, that Shishak the king of Egypt H4714 came up against Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 7:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:6 - For the Lord had caused the army of the Arameans to hear a sound of chariots and a sound of horses, even the sound of a great army, so that they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians, H4714 to come upon us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:4 - But the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea, who had sent messengers to So king of Egypt H4714 and had offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year; so the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:7 - Now this came about because the sons of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up from the land of Egypt H4714 from under the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, H4714 and they had [fn]feared other gods

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