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Lexicon :: Strong's H4714 - miṣrayim

Aa
מִצְרַיִם
Transliteration
miṣrayim
Pronunciation
mits-rah'-yim
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Part of Speech
adjective, proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1235

Strong’s Definitions

מִצְרַיִם Mitsrayim, mits-rah'-yim; dual of H4693; Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt:—Egypt, Egyptians, Mizraim.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 681x

The KJV translates Strong's H4714 in the following manner: Egypt (586x), Egyptian (90x), Mizraim (4x), Egyptians (with H1121) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 681x
The KJV translates Strong's H4714 in the following manner: Egypt (586x), Egyptian (90x), Mizraim (4x), Egyptians (with H1121) (1x).
proper locative noun

  1. Egypt = "land of the Copts"

    1. a country at the northeastern section of Africa, adjacent to Palestine, and through which the Nile flows

      adjective

  2. Egyptians = "double straits"

    1. the inhabitants or natives of Egypt

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מִצְרַיִם Mitsrayim, mits-rah'-yim; dual of H4693; Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt:—Egypt, Egyptians, Mizraim.
STRONGS H4714: Abbreviations
מִצְרַ֫יִם 681 proper name, of a territory and people, feminineExodus 10:7, masculineExodus 12:33, masculine pluralGenesis 41:55 etc. (see below 2), Egypt, Egyptians (Phoenician מצרם; Assyrian Mǔṣŭr(u), Muṣru, Miṣir, DlPar 308 SchrCOT Glossary KGF 246 ff., Tel Amarna Mišrî, WklTA 39 * BezBM 152, and Mašrî Wkll. c.; Arabic bdb059503 Cairo, Egypt (Spiro): Minean Miṣru HomA and A. (1892), 125; see EbÄgM 71 ff.; Greek Version of the LXX Αιγυπτος; — derivatives and form dubious; יִַ֯ם usually regarded as dual term. (Upper and Lower Egypt? compare DiGenesis 10:6), but as locative ending EMeyGeschichte. I, § 42 BaNB p. 319 R. 5; JenZA iv (1889), 268 ff. thinks מִצְרַיִם absolute formed by analogy of מַיִם, שָׁמַיִם from Miṣrî (compare Tel Amarna); see further Wklinfra, near the end); — מ׳ Genesis 13:1 +; מִצְרָ֑יִם Genesis 37:36 +; מִצְרַיְמָה Genesis 12:10 + 12 times, מִצְרָ֑יְמָה Genesis 12:11 + 14 times; —
1.
a. of land, Egypt Genesis 13:1 + 500 times, +, in all periods, including אֶרֶץ מ׳ Genesis 13:10 + approximately + 220 times (of course feminine, Genesis 47:6, 13); אַדְמַת מ׳ the soil of Egypt † Genesis 47:20, 26; מֵימֵי מ׳ † Exodus 7:19; Exodus 8:2; נְהַר מ׳ † Genesis 15:18; יְאֹר מ׳ † Amos 8:8; Amos 9:5; יְאֹרֵי מ׳ † Isaiah 7:18 (compare מָצוֺר); שִׁיחוֺר מ׳ † 1 Chronicles 13:5; לְשׁוֺן יָםמֿ׳ † Isaiah 11:15; נַחַל מ׳ Joshua 15:4 + 6 times (see these various words); land as productive Genesis 45:20; Genesis 49:23, compare שֵׁשׁ בְּרִקְמָה מִמּ׳ Ezekiel 27:7, אֵטוּן מ׳ Proverbs 7:16; often || בּוּשׁ, especially in prophets and poetry Isaiah 20:3, 4, 5; Isaiah 45:14; Ezekiel 30:4, 9 +; || אַשּׁוּר Hosea 11:11; Hosea 12:1; Isaiah 7:18; Jeremiah 2:18 +; including Upper Egypt (פַּתְרוֹם), as well as Lower, Jeremiah 44:1, compare Ezekiel 29:10; Ezekiel 30:6; apparently distinguished from Upper Egypt Isaiah 11:11, and possibly also Jeremiah 44:15 (compare Gf Gie Buhl SS CheHpt Isaiah); but פתרוס etc. in these verses somewhat dubious (compare B. Du Gie).
b. combinations are:
(1) מ׳ as limit of motion: מצרימ(ה)יָרַד Genesis 43:15; Joshua 24:4 + with + 12 times; מ׳ בּוֹא + with + 26 times, בְמ׳ בוא † Isaiah 19:23, לְמ׳ בוא † Jeremiah 44:218; מ׳ מ׳שׁוּב Hoshea 8:3 + 9 times, אֶל־מ׳ שׁוּב † Hoshea 11:5, שׁוּב מ׳ לְאַרְצוֹ † Jeremiah 37:7; מ׳ בָּרַח † 1 Kings 11:40; מ׳ שָׁלַח † Jeremiah 26:22; so (+אֶל־) Jeremiah 26:22. In Jeremiah 42:16b read בְּמ׳ with Gie.
(2) מ׳ as point of departure (הֶעֱלָה) מ׳ מִן־(אִרץ) עָלָה Genesis 13:1 + with + 43 times; יָצָא (הוֹצִיא) מ׳ מִן־(ארץ) Exodus 12:39 + with + 96 times; מִמּ׳ פָּדָה † 2 Samuel 7:23 (but de. Gei Urschr. 288 We Dr Kit Bu) = 1 Chronicles 17:21; מִמּ׳ בּוֹא † 2 Chronicles 12:3; 2 Chronicles 20:10; מִמּ׳ שׁוּב † Jeremiah 44:28; 2 Chronicles 10:2; מִמּ׳ אָתָה † Psalm 68:32; מִמּ׳ † קָרָא † Hoshea 11:1.
2. of people:
a. in table of nations, personified as second son of Ham † Genesis 10:6 = 1 Chronicles 1:8, compare Genesis 10:13 = 1 Chronicles 1:11.
b. = Egypt (as a people), Egyptians Genesis 41:56 + approximately + 134 times, including use = Egyptian Kingdom, empire, i.e. land and people as political power; so with verb feminine singular אָֽבְדָה מ׳ Exodus 10:7, compare Hosea 9:6; Joel 4:19 and (pronoun feminine singular) Ezekiel 30:18; with verb masculine singular Exodus 12:33; Exodus 14:25; Isaiah 19:16, 23, 25; Jeremiah 46:8; often with verb masculine plural Genesis 41:55; Isaiah 19:21, 23 + 22 times; בִּנֵי מ׳ Ezekiel 16:26; בְּתוּלַת בַּת מ׳ Jeremiah 46:11, compare Jeremiah 46:19; Jeremiah 46:24. — In 1 Kings 10:28 2 Chronicles 1:16, 17; 2 Kings 7:6 WklAlttest. Unters. 171 f. thinks of Assyrian Muṣri in North Syria. (On מִצְרַיִם as often = Muṣri in North Arabia see WklAltor. Unters. i. 24 ff., ii. 195, iii. 289; iv. 337 f; MVG 1898, 1.4).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

10:6; 10:6; 10:13; 12:10; 12:11; 13:1; 13:1; 13:1; 13:10; 15:18; 37:36; 41:55; 41:55; 41:56; 43:15; 45:20; 47:6; 47:13; 47:20; 47:26; 49:23

Exodus

7:19; 8:2; 10:7; 10:7; 12:33; 12:33; 12:39; 14:25

Joshua

15:4; 24:4

2 Samuel

7:23

1 Kings

10:28; 11:40

2 Kings

7:6

1 Chronicles

1:8; 1:11; 13:5; 17:21

2 Chronicles

1:16; 1:17; 10:2; 12:3; 20:10

Psalms

68:32

Proverbs

7:16

Isaiah

7:18; 7:18; 11:11; 11:15; 19:16; 19:21; 19:23; 19:23; 19:23; 19:25; 20:3; 20:4; 20:5; 45:14

Jeremiah

2:18; 26:22; 26:22; 37:7; 42:16; 44:1; 44:15; 44:28; 46:8; 46:11; 46:19; 46:24

Ezekiel

16:26; 27:7; 29:10; 30:4; 30:6; 30:9; 30:18

Hosea

9:6; 11:11; 12:1

Amos

8:8; 9:5

H4714

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Strong's Number H4714 matches the Hebrew מִצְרַיִם (miṣrayim),
which occurs 639 times in 573 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 12 (Gen 10:6–Gen 45:26)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:6 - And the sons of Ham: Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:13 - And Mizraim was the father of the Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:10 - And because there was little food to be had in that land, he went down into Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:11 - Now when he came near to Egypt, he said to Sarai, his wife, Truly, you are a fair woman and beautiful to the eye;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:14 - And so it was that when Abram came into Egypt, the men of Egypt, looking on the woman, saw that she was fair.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:1 - And Abram went up out of Egypt with his wife and all he had, and Lot with him, and they came in to the South.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:10 - And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:18 - In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:21 - And while he was in the waste land of Paran, his mother got him a wife from the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:18 - And their country was from Havilah to Shur which is east of Egypt: they took their place to the east of all their brothers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:2 - And the Lord came to him in a vision and said, Do not go down to Egypt; keep in the land of which I will give you knowledge:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:25 - Then seating themselves, they took their meal: and looking up, they saw a travelling band of Ishmaelites, coming from Gilead on their way to Egypt, with spices and perfumes on their camels.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:28 - And some traders from Midian went by; so pulling Joseph up out of the hole, they gave him to the Ishmaelites for twenty bits of silver, and they took him to Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:36 - And in Egypt the men of Midian gave him for a price to Potiphar, a captain of high position in Pharaoh's house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:1 - Now Joseph was taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar the Egyptian, a captain of high position in Pharaoh's house, got him for a price from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:1 - Now after these things the chief servant who had the care of the wine, and the chief bread-maker in Pharaoh's house, did something against Pharaoh's orders;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:5 - And these two had a dream on the same night; the chief wine-servant and the chief bread-maker of the king of Egypt, who were in prison, the two of them had dreams with a special sense.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:8 - And in the morning his spirit was troubled; and he sent for all the wise men of Egypt and all the holy men, and put his dream before them, but no one was able to give him the sense of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:19 - Then after them came seven other cows, very thin and poor-looking, worse than any I ever saw in the land of Egypt;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:29 - Seven years are coming in which there will be great wealth of grain in Egypt;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:30 - And after that will come seven years when there will not be enough food; and the memory of the good years will go from men's minds; and the land will be made waste by the bad years;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:33 - And now let Pharaoh make search for a man of wisdom and good sense, and put him in authority over the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:34 - Let Pharaoh do this, and let him put overseers over the land of Egypt to put in store a fifth part of the produce of the land in the good years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:36 - And let that food be kept in store for the land till the seven bad years which are to come in Egypt; so that the land may not come to destruction through need of food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:41

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:41 - And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have put you over all the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:43

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:43 - And he made him take his seat in the second of his carriages; and they went before him crying, Make way! So he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:44

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:44 - Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh; and without your order no man may do anything in all the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:45

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:45 - And Pharaoh gave Joseph the name of Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera, the priest of On, to be his wife. So Joseph went through all the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:46

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:46 - Now Joseph was thirty years old when he came before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from before the face of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:48

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:48 - And Joseph got together all the food of those seven years, and made a store of food in the towns: the produce of the fields round every town was stored up in the town.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:53

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:53 - And so the seven good years in Egypt came to an end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:54

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:54 - Then came the first of the seven years of need as Joseph had said: and in every other land they were short of food; but in the land of Egypt there was bread.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:55

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:55 - And when all the land of Egypt was in need of food, the people came crying to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh said to the people, Go to Joseph, and whatever he says to you, do it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:56

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:56 - And everywhere on the earth they were short of food; then Joseph, opening all his store-houses, gave the people of Egypt grain for money; so great was the need of food in the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:57

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:57 - And all lands sent to Egypt, to Joseph, to get grain, for the need was great over all the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:1 - Now Jacob, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, said to his sons, Why are you looking at one another?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:2 - And he said, I have had news that there is grain in Egypt: go down there and get grain for us, so that life and not death may be ours.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:3 - So Joseph's ten brothers went down to get grain from Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:2 - And when the grain which they had got in Egypt was all used up, their father said to them, Go again and get us a little food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:15 - So they took what their father said for the man, and twice as much money in their hands, and Benjamin, and went on their journey to Egypt, and came before Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:4 - Then Joseph said to his brothers, Come near to me. And they came near, And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom you sent into Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:8 - So now it was not you who sent me here, but God: and he has made me as a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:9 - Now go quickly to my father, and say to him, Your son Joseph says, God has made me ruler over all the land of Egypt: come down to me straight away:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:13 - Give my father word of all my glory in Egypt and of all you have seen; and come back quickly with my father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:18 - And get your father and your families and come back to me: and I will give you all the good things of Egypt, and the fat of the land will be your food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:19 - And say to them, This you are to do: take carts from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and get your father and come back.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:20 - And take no thought for your goods, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:23 - And to his father he sent ten asses with good things from Egypt on their backs, and ten she-asses with grain and bread and food for his father on the journey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:25 - So they went up from Egypt and came to the land of Canaan, to their father Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:26 - And they said to him, Joseph is living, and is ruler over all the land of Egypt. And at this word Jacob was quite overcome, for he had no faith in it.

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