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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 54 times in 48 verses in 'Eze' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:26 - Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians H4714 thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:15 - But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, H4714 that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:4 - The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt. H4714

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:5 - And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, H4714 when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the LORD your God;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:6 - In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt H4714 into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:7 - Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: H4714 I am the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:8 - But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: H4714 then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. H4714

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:9 - But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt. H4714

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:10 - Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, H4714 and brought them into the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:36

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:36 - Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, H4714 so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:3 - And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; H4714 they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:8 - Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: H4714 for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:19 - Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt. H4714

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:21 - Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians H4714 for the paps of thy youth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:27 - Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: H4714 so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt H4714 any more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:7 - Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt H4714 was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:2 - Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, H4714 and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt: H4714

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:3 - Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, H4714 the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:6 - And all the inhabitants of Egypt H4714 shall know that I am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:9 - And the land of Egypt H4714 shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the LORD: because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:10 - Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt H4714 utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12 - And I will make the land of Egypt H4714 desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians H4714 among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:13 - Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians H4714 from the people whither they were scattered:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:14 - And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, H4714 and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:19 - Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt H4714 unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:20 - I have given him the land of Egypt H4714 for his labour wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:4 - And the sword shall come upon Egypt, H4714 and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, H4714 and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:6 - Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt H4714 shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:8 - And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt, H4714 and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:9 - In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: H4714 for, lo, it cometh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:10 - Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of Egypt H4714 to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:11 - He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, H4714 and fill the land with the slain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:13 - Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: H4714 and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt. H4714

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:15 - And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt; H4714 and I will cut off the multitude of No.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:16 - And I will set fire in Egypt: H4714 Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:18 - At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: H4714 and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:19 - Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: H4714 and they shall know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:21 - Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; H4714 and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:22 - Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, H4714 and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:23 - And I will scatter the Egyptians H4714 among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:25 - But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt. H4714

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:26 - And I will scatter the Egyptians H4714 among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:2 - Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, H4714 and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:2 - Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, H4714 and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:12 - By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, H4714 and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:15 - When I shall make the land of Egypt H4714 desolate, and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:16 - This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, H4714 and for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:18 - Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, H4714 and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
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