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Lexicon :: Strong's G125 - aigyptos

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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.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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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 25 times in 23 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 2:13 - Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 2:14 - And he rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed to Egypt

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 2:15 - and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, “Out of Egypt I called my son.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 2:19 - But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 2:10 - Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:9 - “And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:10 - and rescued him out of all his afflictions and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:11 - Now there came a famine throughout all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers could find no food.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:12 - But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers on their first visit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:15 - And Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, he and our fathers,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:17 - “But as the time of the promise drew near, which God had granted to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:18 - until there arose over Egypt another king who did not know Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:34

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:34 - I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:36

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:36 - This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:39

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:39 - Our fathers refused to obey him, but thrust him aside, and in their hearts they turned to Egypt,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:40

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:40 - saying to Aaron, ‘Make for us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who led us out from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 13:17

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:17 - The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 3:16 - For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses?

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 8:9 - not like the covenant that I made with their fathers
on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt.
For they did not continue in my covenant,
and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 11:26

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:26 - He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:27 - By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jde 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:5 - Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved[fn] a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 11:8 - and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically[fn] is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified.
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