אָבֵל מִצְרַיִםʼÂbêl Mitsrayim
Abel-Mitsrajim, a place in Palestine
Pronunciation: aw-bale' mits-rah'-yim · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H67
Meanings
1. meadow (1 Samuel 6:18; 1 Samuel 6:14; 1 Samuel 6:15)
2. wheat-meadow (2 Samuel 20:18; 2 Samuel 20:14; 2 Samuel 20:15)
3. acacia-meadow (Numbers 33:49; Numbers 25:1; Micah 6:5)
4. vineyard-meadow (Judges 11:33)
5. dance-meadow (Judges 7:22; 1 Kings 4:12; 1 Kings 19:16)
6. meadow of Egypt (Genesis 50:11)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 2 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 50:11 The local residents, the Canaanites, watched them mourning at the threshing floor of Atad. Then they renamed that place (which is near the Jordan) Abel-mizraim, for they said, “This is a place of deep mourning for these Egyptians.”
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- Genesis 50:11
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).