מִצְרִיMitsrîy
a Mitsrite, or inhabitant of Mitsrajim
Pronunciation: mits-ree' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4713
Meanings
1. adjective (Genesis 39:1; Exodus 2:11; Exodus 2:19)
2. with article = substantive the Egyptian, collective = the Egyptians, plural = the Egyptians (Genesis 39:2; Genesis 39:5; Exodus 2:12)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 70 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 12:12 When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife. Let’s kill him; then we can have her!’
- Genesis 12:14 And sure enough, when Abram arrived in Egypt, everyone noticed Sarai’s beauty.
- Genesis 16:1 Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not been able to bear children for him. But she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar.
- Genesis 16:3 So Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian servant and gave her to Abram as a wife. (This happened ten years after Abram had settled in the land of Canaan.)
- Genesis 21:9 But Sarah saw Ishmael—the son of Abraham and her Egyptian servant Hagar—making fun of her son, Isaac.
- Genesis 25:12 This is the account of the family of Ishmael, the son of Abraham through Hagar, Sarah’s Egyptian servant.
See every passage
- Genesis 12:12, 12:14, 16:1, 16:3, 21:9, 25:12, 39:1, 39:2, 39:5, 41:55, 43:32, 45:2, 46:34, 47:15, 47:20, 50:3
- Exodus 1:13, 1:19, 2:11, 2:12, 2:14, 2:19, 3:9, 3:20, 3:21, 3:22, 7:5, 7:18, 7:21, 7:24, 8:21, 9:6, 9:11, 10:6, 11:3, 14:4, 14:9, 14:10, 14:12, 14:13, 14:17, 14:18, 14:23, 14:24, 32:12
- Leviticus 24:10
- Numbers 14:13, 20:15, 33:3, 33:4
- Deuteronomy 23:7, 26:6
- Joshua 24:6, 24:7
- Judges 6:9
- 1 Samuel 6:6, 30:11, 30:13
- 2 Samuel 23:21
- 1 Chronicles 2:34, 11:23
- Ezra 9:1
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).