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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 1 / 12 (Gen 10:6–Gen 45:26)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:6 - And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:13 - -- And Mizraim begot the Ludim, and the Anamim, and the Lehabim, and the Naphtuhim,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:10 - And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was grievous in the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:11 - And it came to pass when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a woman fair to look upon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:14 - And it came to pass when Abram came into Egypt, that the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:1 - And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, towards the south.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:10 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of the Jordan that it was thoroughly watered, before Jehovah had destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah; as the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, as one goes to Zoar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:18 - On the same day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:21 - And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:18 - And they dwelt from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite to Egypt, as one goes towards Assyria. He settled before the face of all his brethren.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:2 - And Jehovah appeared to him and said, Go not down to Egypt: dwell in the land that I shall tell thee of.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:25 - And they sat down to eat bread; and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites came from Gilead; and their camels bore tragacanth, and balsam, and ladanum -- going to carry it down to Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:28 - And Midianitish men, merchants, passed by; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty silver-pieces; and they brought Joseph to Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:36 - And the Midianites sold him into Egypt, to Potiphar, a chamberlain of Pharaoh, the captain of the life-guard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:1 - And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, a chamberlain of Pharaoh, the captain of the life-guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hand of the Ishmaelites who had brought him down thither.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:1 - And it came to pass after these things, that the cup-bearer of the king of Egypt and the baker offended their lord the king of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:5 - And they dreamed a dream, both of them in one night, each his dream, each according to the interpretation of his dream, the cup-bearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were imprisoned in the tower-house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:8 - And it came to pass in the morning, that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the scribes of Egypt, and all the sages who were therein, and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none to interpret them to Pharaoh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:19 - And behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor, and very ill-formed, and lean-fleshed -- such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:29 - Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:30 - And there will arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine will waste away the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:33 - And now let Pharaoh look himself out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:34 - Let Pharaoh do this: let him appoint overseers over the land, and take the fifth part of the land of Egypt during the seven years of plenty,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:36 - And let the food be as store for the land for the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt, that the land perish not through the famine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:41

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:41 - And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:43

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:43 - And he caused him to ride in the second chariot that he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee! and he set him over all the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:44

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:44 - And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh; and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:45

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:45 - And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnath-paaneah, and gave him as wife Asnath the daughter of Potipherah the priest in On. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:46

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:46 - And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from Pharaoh, and passed through the whole land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:48

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:48 - And he gathered up all the food of the seven years that was in the land of Egypt, and put the food in the cities; the food of the fields of the city, which were round about it, he laid up in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:53

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:53 - And the seven years of plenty that were in the land of Egypt were ended;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:54

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:54 - and the seven years of the dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said. And there was dearth in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:55

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:55 - And all the land of Egypt suffered from the dearth. And the people cried to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, Go to Joseph: what he says to you, that do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:56

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:56 - And the famine was on all the earth. And Joseph opened every place in which there was provision, and sold grain to the Egyptians; and the famine was grievous in the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:57

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:57 - And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was grievous on the whole earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:1 - And Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:2 - And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down thither and buy grain for us from thence, in order that we may live, and not die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:3 - And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy grain out of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 43:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:2 - And it came to pass, when they had finished eating the grain which they had brought from Egypt, that their father said to them, Go again, buy us a little food.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 43:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:15 - And the men took that gift, and took double money in their hand, and Benjamin, and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and came before Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 45:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:4 - And Joseph said to his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 45:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:8 - And now it was not you that sent me here, but God; and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and governor over all the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 45:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:9 - Haste and go up to my father, and say to him, Thus says thy son Joseph: God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me, tarry not.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 45:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:13 - And tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen, and haste and bring down my father hither.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 45:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:18 - and take your father and your households, and come to me; and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 45:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:19 - And thou art commanded -- this do: take waggons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and take up your father, and come.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 45:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:20 - And let not your eye regret your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt shall be yours.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 45:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:23 - And to his father he sent this: ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses laden with corn and bread, and food for his father by the way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 45:25

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 45:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:26 - And they told him, saying, Joseph is still alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And his heart fainted, for he did not believe them.

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