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. 1 Samuel 12:6מִצְרָֽיִם׃ · of Egypt
    Then Samuel said to the people, “The LORD is the One who appointed Moses and Aaron, and who brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
  2. 1 Samuel 12:8 (2×)מִצְרָ֑יִם · to Egypt; מִמִּצְרַ֔יִם · out of Egypt
    When Jacob went to Egypt, your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He sent them Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt and settled them in this place.
  3. 1 Samuel 15:2מִמִּצְרָֽיִם׃ · from Egypt
    This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘I witnessed what the Amalekites did to the Israelites when they opposed them on their way up from Egypt.
  4. 1 Samuel 15:6מִמִּצְרָ֑יִם · out of Egypt
    And he warned the Kenites, “Since you showed kindness to all the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt, go on and get away from the Amalekites. Otherwise I will sweep you away with them.” So the Kenites moved away from the Amalekites.
  5. 1 Samuel 15:7מִצְרָֽיִם׃ · of Egypt
    Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt.
  6. 1 Samuel 27:8מִצְרָֽיִם׃ · Egypt
    Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these people had inhabited the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)
  7. 2 Samuel 7:6מִמִּצְרַ֔יִם · out of Egypt
    For I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought the Israelites up out of Egypt until this day, but I have moved about with a tent as My dwelling.
  8. 2 Samuel 7:23מִמִּצְרַ֔יִם · from Egypt
    And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself and to make a name for Himself? You performed great and awesome wonders by driving out nations and their gods from before Your people, whom You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt.
  9. 1 Kings 3:1מִצְרָ֑יִם · of Egypt
    Later, Solomon formed an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. Solomon brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his palace and the house of the LORD, as well as the wall around Jerusalem.
  10. 1 Kings 4:21מִצְרָ֑יִם · of Egypt
    And Solomon reigned over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These kingdoms offered tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.
  11. 1 Kings 4:30מִצְרָֽיִם׃ · of Egypt
    Solomon’s wisdom was greater than that of all the men of the East, greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.
  12. 1 Kings 6:1מִצְרַיִם֩ · of Egypt
    In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the house of the LORD.
  13. 1 Kings 8:9מִצְרָֽיִם׃ · of Egypt
    There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out of the land of Egypt.
  14. 1 Kings 8:16מִמִּצְרַיִם֒ · of Egypt
    ‘Since the day I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be there. But I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’
  15. 1 Kings 8:21מִצְרָֽיִם׃ס · of Egypt
    And there I have provided a place for the ark, which contains the covenant of the LORD that He made with our fathers when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.”
  16. 1 Kings 8:51מִמִּצְרַ֔יִם · of Egypt
    For they are Your people and Your inheritance; You brought them out of Egypt, out of the furnace for iron.
  17. 1 Kings 8:53מִמִּצְרַ֖יִם · out of Egypt
    For You, O Lord GOD, have set them apart from all the peoples of the earth as Your inheritance, as You spoke through Your servant Moses when You brought our fathers out of Egypt.”
  18. 1 Kings 8:65מִצְרַ֗יִם · of Egypt
    So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast before the LORD our God for seven days and seven more days—fourteen days in all.
  19. 1 Kings 9:9מִצְרַיִם֒ · of Egypt
    And others will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the LORD their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—because of this, the LORD has brought all this disaster upon them.’”
  20. 1 Kings 9:16מִצְרַ֜יִם · of Egypt
    Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
  21. 1 Kings 10:28מִמִּצְרָ֑יִם · from Egypt
    Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue; the royal merchants purchased them from Kue.
  22. 1 Kings 10:29מִמִּצְרַ֙יִם֙ · from Egypt
    A chariot could be imported from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty. Likewise, they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram.
  23. 1 Kings 11:17מִצְרָ֑יִם · to Egypt
    But Hadad, still just a young boy, had fled to Egypt, along with some Edomites who were servants of his father.
  24. 1 Kings 11:18 (2×)מִצְרַ֙יִם֙ · to Egypt; מִצְרַ֔יִם · of Egypt
    Hadad and his men set out from Midian and went to Paran. They took men from Paran with them and went to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave Hadad a house and land and provided him with food.
  25. 1 Kings 11:21בְּמִצְרַ֗יִם · in Egypt
    When Hadad heard in Egypt that David had rested with his fathers and that Joab, the commander of the army, was dead, he said to Pharaoh, “Let me go, that I may return to my own country.”
  26. 1 Kings 11:40 (3×)מִצְרַ֙יִם֙ · to Egypt; מִצְרַ֔יִם · of Egypt; בְמִצְרַ֖יִם · where
    Solomon therefore sought to kill Jeroboam. But Jeroboam arose and fled to Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, where he remained until the death of Solomon.
  27. 1 Kings 12:2 (2×)בְמִצְרַ֔יִם · in Egypt; בְּמִצְרָֽיִם׃
    When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about this, he was still in Egypt where he had fled from King Solomon and had been living ever since.
  28. 1 Kings 12:28מִצְרָֽיִם׃ · of Egypt
    After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”
  29. 1 Kings 14:25מִצְרַ֖יִם · of Egypt
    In the fifth year of Rehoboam’s reign, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.
  30. 2 Kings 7:6מִצְרַ֖יִם · Egyptians
    For the Lord had caused the Arameans to hear the sound of chariots, horses, and a great army, so that they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel must have hired the kings of the Hittites and Egyptians to attack us.”
  31. 2 Kings 17:4מִצְרַ֔יִם · of Egypt
    But the king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea had conspired to send envoys to King So of Egypt, and that he had not paid tribute to the king of Assyria as in previous years. Therefore the king of Assyria arrested Hoshea and put him in prison.
  32. 2 Kings 17:7 (2×)מִצְרַ֔יִם · of Egypt; מִצְרָ֑יִם · of Egypt
    All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods
  33. 2 Kings 17:36מִצְרַ֛יִם · of Egypt
    Instead, worship the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power and an outstretched arm. You are to bow down to Him and offer sacrifices to Him.
  34. 2 Kings 18:21 (2×)מִצְרַ֔יִם · in Egypt; מִצְרַ֔יִם · of Egypt
    Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
  35. 2 Kings 18:24מִצְרַ֔יִם · Egypt
    For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?
  36. 2 Kings 21:15מִמִּצְרַ֔יִם · out of Egypt
    …because they have done evil in My sight and have provoked Me to anger from the day their fathers came out of Egypt until this day.’”
  37. 2 Kings 23:29מִצְרַ֛יִם · of Egypt
    During Josiah’s reign, Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt marched up to help the king of Assyria at the Euphrates River. King Josiah went out to confront him, but Neco faced him and killed him at Megiddo.
  38. 2 Kings 23:34מִצְרַ֖יִם · to Egypt
    Then Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah, and he changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt, where he died.
  39. 2 Kings 24:7 (3×)מִצְרַ֔יִם · of Egypt; מִצְרַ֙יִם֙ · of Egypt; מִצְרָֽיִם׃פ
    Now the king of Egypt did not march out of his land again, because the king of Babylon had taken all his territory, from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates River.
  40. 2 Kings 25:26מִצְרָ֑יִם · to Egypt
    Then all the people small and great, together with the commanders of the army, arose and fled to Egypt for fear of the Chaldeans.
  41. 1 Chronicles 1:8וּמִצְרַ֖יִם · Mizraim
    The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.