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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.
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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 25 times in 23 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 2:13 - After they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Get up, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to look for the child to kill him."

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 2:14 - Then he got up, took the child and his mother during the night, and went to Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 2:15 - He stayed there until Herod died. In this way what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet was fulfilled: "I called my Son out of Egypt."

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 2:19 - After Herod had died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 2:10 - Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene, and visitors from Rome,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:9 - The patriarchs, because they were jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt. But God was with him,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:10 - and rescued him from all his troubles, and granted him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:11 - Then a famine occurred throughout Egypt and Canaan, causing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:12 - So when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there the first time.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:15 - So Jacob went down to Egypt and died there, along with our ancestors,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:17 - "But as the time drew near for God to fulfill the promise he had declared to Abraham, the people increased greatly in number in Egypt,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:18 - until another king who did not know about Joseph ruled over Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:34

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:34 - I have certainly seen the suffering of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to rescue them. Now come, I will send you to Egypt.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:36

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:36 - This man led them out, performing wonders and miraculous signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:39

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:39 - Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him, but pushed him aside and turned back to Egypt in their hearts,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:40

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:40 - saying to Aaron, 'Make us gods who will go in front of us, for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt - we do not know what has happened to him!'

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 13:17

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:17 - The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors and made the people great during their stay as foreigners in the country of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 3:16 - For which ones heard and rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under Moses' leadership?

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 8:9 - "It will not be like the covenant that I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I had no regard for them, says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 11:26

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:26 - He regarded abuse suffered for Christ to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for his eyes were fixed on the reward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:27 - By faith he left Egypt without fearing the king's anger, for he persevered as though he could see the one who is invisible.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jde 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:5 - Now I desire to remind you (even though you have been fully informed of these facts once for all) that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, later destroyed those who did not believe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 11:8 - Their corpses will lie in the street of the great city that is symbolically called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was also crucified.
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