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Lexicon :: Strong's G125 - aigyptos

Aa
Αἴγυπτος
Transliteration
aigyptos (Key)
Pronunciation
ah'-ee-goop-tos
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of uncertain derivation
Strong’s Definitions

Αἴγυπτος Aígyptos, ah'-ee-goop-tos; of uncertain derivation; Ægyptus, the land of the Nile:—Egypt.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 24x

The KJV translates Strong's G125 in the following manner: Egypt (24x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 24x
The KJV translates Strong's G125 in the following manner: Egypt (24x).

  1. Egypt = "double straits"

    1. a country occupying the northeast angle of Africa

    2. metaph. Jerusalem, for the Jews persecuting the Christ and his followers, and so to be likened to the Egyptians treating the Jews

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
Αἴγυπτος Aígyptos, ah'-ee-goop-tos; of uncertain derivation; Ægyptus, the land of the Nile:—Egypt.
STRONGS G125:
Αἴγυπτος, -ου, ἡ, [always without the article, Buttmann, 87 (76); Winers Grammar, § 18, 5 a.], the proper name of a well-known country, Egypt: Matthew 2:13; Acts 2:10; Hebrews 3:16, etc.; more fully γῆ Αἴγυπτος, Acts 7:36 [not L WH Tr text], Acts 7:40; Acts 13:17; Hebrews 8:9; Jude 1:5 (Exodus 5:12; Exodus 6:26, etc.; 1 Macc. 1:19; Baruch 1:19f, etc.); ἡ γῆ Αἴγυπτος, Acts 7:11; ἐν Αἰγύπτου namely, γῆ, Hebrews 11:26 Lachmann, but cf. Bleek at the passage; Buttmann, 171 (149); [Winer's Grammar, 384 (359)]. In Revelation 11:8 Αἴγυπτος is figuratively used for Jerusalem, i. e. for the Jewish nation viewed as persecuting Christ and his followers, and so to be likened to the Egyptians in their ancient hostility to the true God and their endeavors to crush his people.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Exodus
5:12; 6:26
Matthew
2:13
Acts
2:10; 7:11; 7:36; 7:40; 13:17
Hebrews
3:16; 8:9; 11:26
Jude
1:5
Revelation
11:8

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G125 matches the Greek Αἴγυπτος (aigyptos),
which occurs 9 times in 8 verses in 'Jdg' in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:1 - Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, “I brought you up from Egypt and brought you into the land that I swore to give to your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:12 - And they abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed down to them. And they provoked the LORD to anger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:8 - the LORD sent a prophet to the people of Israel. And he said to them, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: I led you up from Egypt and brought you out of the house of slavery.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:9 - And I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out before you and gave you their land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:13 - And Gideon said to him, “Please, my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds that our fathers recounted to us, saying, ‘Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and given us into the hand of Midian.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:13 - And the king of the Ammonites answered the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel on coming up from Egypt took away my land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan; now therefore restore it peaceably.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:16 - but when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:30 - And all who saw it said, “Such a thing has never happened or been seen from the day that the people of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt until this day; consider it, take counsel, and speak.”
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