מִצְרַיִםMitsrayim
proper name, feminine [of a territory and people]: Egypt, Egyptians
Pronunciation: mits-rah'-yim · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4714
Meanings
1.
a. Egypt, of land (Genesis 13:1; Genesis 13:10; Genesis 47:6)
b. combinations are (Genesis 43:15; Joshua 24:4; 1 Samuel 12:8)
2 of people
a in table of nations, personified as second son of Ham (Genesis 10:6; 1 Chronicles 1:8; Genesis 10:13)
b. Egyptians, = Egypt (as a people) (Genesis 41:56; Exodus 10:7; Hosea 9:6)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 641 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 10:6 The descendants of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
- Genesis 10:13 Mizraim was the ancestor of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites,
- Genesis 12:10 At that time a severe famine struck the land of Canaan, forcing Abram to go down to Egypt, where he lived as a foreigner.
- Genesis 12:11 As he was approaching the border of Egypt, Abram said to his wife, Sarai, “Look, you are a very beautiful woman.
- Genesis 12:14 And sure enough, when Abram arrived in Egypt, everyone noticed Sarai’s beauty.
- Genesis 13:1 So Abram left Egypt and traveled north into the Negev, along with his wife and Lot and all that they owned.
See every passage
- Genesis 76 verses
- Exodus 128 verses
- Leviticus 11 verses
- Numbers 28 verses
- Deuteronomy 47 verses
- Joshua 16 verses
- Judges 8 verses
- 1 Samuel 10 verses
- 2 Samuel 2 verses
- 1 Kings 21 verses
- 2 Kings 11 verses
- 1 Chronicles 4 verses
- 2 Chronicles 17 verses
- Nehemiah 2 verses
- Psalms 15 verses
- Proverbs 1 verses
- Isaiah 40 verses
- Jeremiah 54 verses
- Lamentations 1 verses
- Ezekiel 48 verses
- Daniel 4 verses
- Hosea 13 verses
- Joel 1 verses
- Amos 7 verses
- Micah 2 verses
- Nahum 1 verses
- Haggai 1 verses
- Zechariah 4 verses
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).