ΑἴγυπτοςAígyptos
Ægyptus, the land of the Nile
Greek (New Testament) · G125
Meanings
Egypt: Matthew 2:13-15, Matthew 2:19, Acts 2:10, Acts 7:9-39, Hebrews 3:16, Hebrews 11:26, Hebrews 11:27; γῆ Αἴ., Acts 7:40, Acts 13:17, Hebrews 8:9, Jude 1:5 (cf. Exodus 5:12, and elsewhere); ἡ Αἴ., Acts 7:11; figuratively, of Jerusalem as hostile to God, Revelation 11:8.
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 25 times in the Bible.
- Matthew 2:13 After the wise men were gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up! Flee to Egypt with the child and his mother,” the angel said. “Stay there until I tell you to return, because Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.”
- Matthew 2:14 That night Joseph left for Egypt with the child and Mary, his mother,
- Matthew 2:15 and they stayed there until Herod’s death. This fulfilled what the Lord had spoken through the prophet: “I called my Son out of Egypt.”
- Matthew 2:19 When Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt.
- Acts 2:10 Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, and the areas of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from Rome
- Acts 7:9 “These patriarchs were jealous of their brother Joseph, and they sold him to be a slave in Egypt. But God was with him
Source: G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), public domain.