מִצְרַ֫יִם

mits.ra.yimEgypt
hebrewOld TestamentName of a place641 occurrences28 books573 verses
This name belongs to 4 different people and places in the Bible:
  • Egypt: Descendant of Ham, ancestor of African peoples
  • Brook of Egypt: Southwestern boundary of the Promised Land
  • Egypt: Ancient nation; Israelites enslaved there; plagues and Exodus
  • Sea of Egypt: Likely the Gulf of Suez, part of the Red Sea

Definition

dual of H4693; Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt
Traditional renderings: Egypt, Egyptians, Mizraim.

Glossary entries

Egypt, Egyptian Brook of Egypt Wadi Rahab (Monster) Shihor Sihor

Where it occurs

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Occurrences

641 total
  1. Genesis 10:6וּמִצְרַ֖יִם · Mizraim
    The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
  2. Genesis 10:13וּמִצְרַ֡יִם · Mizraim
    Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, the Anamites, the Lehabites, the Naphtuhites,
  3. Genesis 12:10מִצְרַ֙יְמָה֙ · to Egypt
    Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.
  4. Genesis 12:11מִצְרָ֑יְמָה · Egypt
    As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman,
  5. Genesis 12:14מִצְרָ֑יְמָה · Egypt
    So when Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
  6. Genesis 13:1מִמִּצְרַ֜יִם · out of Egypt
    So Abram went up out of Egypt into the Negev—he and his wife and all his possessions—and Lot was with him.
  7. Genesis 13:10מִצְרַ֔יִם · of Egypt
    And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
  8. Genesis 15:18מִצְרַ֔יִם · of Egypt
    On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—
  9. Genesis 21:21מִצְרָֽיִם׃פ · of Egypt
    And while he was dwelling in the Wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
  10. Genesis 25:18מִצְרַ֔יִם · of Egypt
    Ishmael’s descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which is near the border of Egypt as you go toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility toward all their brothers.
  11. Genesis 26:2מִצְרָ֑יְמָה · to Egypt
    The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt. Settle in the land where I tell you.
  12. Genesis 37:25מִצְרָֽיְמָה׃ · to Egypt
    And as they sat down to eat a meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh on their way down to Egypt.
  13. Genesis 37:28מִצְרָֽיְמָה׃ · to Egypt
    So when the Midianite traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.
  14. Genesis 37:36מִצְרָ֑יִם · Egypt
    Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard.
  15. Genesis 39:1מִצְרָ֑יְמָה · to Egypt
    Meanwhile, Joseph had been taken down to Egypt, where an Egyptian named Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.
  16. Genesis 40:1 (2×)מִצְרַ֖יִם; מִצְרָֽיִם׃ · of Egypt
    Some time later, the king’s cupbearer and baker offended their master, the king of Egypt.
  17. Genesis 40:5מִצְרַ֔יִם · the Egyptian
    …both of these men—the Egyptian king’s cupbearer and baker, who were being held in the prison—had a dream on the same night, and each dream had its own meaning.
  18. Genesis 41:8מִצְרַ֖יִם · of Egypt
    In the morning his spirit was troubled, so he summoned all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.
  19. Genesis 41:19מִצְרַ֖יִם · of Egypt
    After them, seven other cows—sickly, ugly, and thin—came up. I have never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt!
  20. Genesis 41:29מִצְרָֽיִם׃ · of Egypt
    Behold, seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt,
  21. Genesis 41:30מִצְרָ֑יִם · of Egypt
    …but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will devastate the land.
  22. Genesis 41:33מִצְרָֽיִם׃ · of Egypt
    Now, therefore, Pharaoh should look for a discerning and wise man and set him over the land of Egypt.
  23. Genesis 41:34מִצְרַ֔יִם · of Egypt
    Let Pharaoh take action and appoint commissioners over the land to take a fifth of the harvest of Egypt during the seven years of abundance.
  24. Genesis 41:36מִצְרָ֑יִם · of Egypt
    This food will be a reserve for the land during the seven years of famine to come upon the land of Egypt. Then the country will not perish in the famine.”
  25. Genesis 41:41מִצְרָֽיִם׃ · of Egypt
    Pharaoh also told Joseph, “I hereby place you over all the land of Egypt.”
  26. Genesis 41:43מִצְרָֽיִם׃ · of Egypt
    He had Joseph ride in his second chariot, with men calling out before him, “Bow the knee!” So he placed him over all the land of Egypt.
  27. Genesis 41:44מִצְרָֽיִם׃ · of Egypt
    And Pharaoh declared to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, but without your permission, no one in all the land of Egypt shall lift his hand or foot.”
  28. Genesis 41:45מִצְרָֽיִם׃ · of Egypt
    Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-paneah, and he gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, to be his wife. And Joseph took charge of all the land of Egypt.
  29. Genesis 41:46 (2×)מִצְרָ֑יִם · of Egypt; מִצְרָֽיִם׃ · of Egypt
    Now Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph left Pharaoh’s presence and traveled throughout the land of Egypt.
  30. Genesis 41:48מִצְרַ֔יִם · of Egypt
    During those seven years, Joseph collected all the excess food in the land of Egypt and stored it in the cities. In every city he laid up the food from the fields around it.
  31. Genesis 41:53מִצְרָֽיִם׃ · of Egypt
    When the seven years of abundance in the land of Egypt came to an end,
  32. Genesis 41:54מִצְרַ֖יִם · of Egypt
    …the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. And although there was famine in every country, there was food throughout the land of Egypt.
  33. Genesis 41:55מִצְרַ֔יִם · of Egypt
    When extreme hunger came to all the land of Egypt and the people cried out to Pharaoh for food, he told all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”
  34. Genesis 41:56 (2×)לְמִצְרַ֔יִם · to the Egyptians; מִצְרָֽיִם׃ · of Egypt
    When the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened up all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians; for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
  35. Genesis 41:57מִצְרַ֔יְמָה · in Egypt
    And every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.
  36. Genesis 42:1בְּמִצְרָ֑יִם · in Egypt
    When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you staring at one another?”
  37. Genesis 42:2בְּמִצְרָ֑יִם · in Egypt
    “Look,” he added, “I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die.”
  38. Genesis 42:3מִמִּצְרָֽיִם׃ · from Egypt
    So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
  39. Genesis 43:2מִמִּצְרָ֑יִם · from Egypt
    So when Jacob’s sons had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us a little more food.”
  40. Genesis 43:15מִצְרַ֔יִם · to Egypt
    So the men took these gifts, along with double the amount of silver, and Benjamin as well. Then they hurried down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.
  41. Genesis 45:4מִצְרָֽיְמָה׃ · into Egypt
    Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come near me.” And they did so. “I am Joseph, your brother,” he said, “the one you sold into Egypt!
  42. Genesis 45:8מִצְרָֽיִם׃ · of Egypt
    Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God, who has made me a father to Pharaoh—lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
  43. Genesis 45:9מִצְרָ֑יִם · Egypt
    Now return quickly to my father and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me without delay.
  44. Genesis 45:13בְּמִצְרַ֔יִם · in Egypt
    Tell my father about all my splendor in Egypt and everything you have seen. And bring my father down here quickly.”
  45. Genesis 45:18מִצְרַ֔יִם · of Egypt
    Then bring your father and your families and return to me. I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat from the fat of the land.’
  46. Genesis 45:19מִצְרַ֜יִם · of Egypt
    You are also directed to tell them: ‘Take wagons from the land of Egypt for your young children and your wives, and bring your father and come back.
  47. Genesis 45:20מִצְרַ֖יִם · of Egypt
    But pay no regard to your belongings, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.’”