Aigyptos · Egypt

What it means

Aigyptos (Αἴγυπτος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “Egypt”.

The land along the Nile, south of Israel.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

The place

• Egypt

  Today: Egypt (Nile Valley)

  A country in northeast Africa along the Nile River, southwest of Israel.

  Joseph was sold into it, and his family went down to live there (Gen 37:28; 46:6). God brought Israel out of it with a mighty hand (Exod 12:41). The child Jesus fled there with his parents (Matt 2:14).

  Genesis 12:10Genesis 37:28Exodus 12:41Matthew 2:14

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×4
• Acts×15
• Hebrews×4
• Jude×1
• Revelation×1

• Matthew 2:13

  And when they had withdrawn, look, an angel of the Lord appears in a dream to Joseph, saying, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you; for Herod is about to search for the child to destroy him.”

• Matthew 2:14

  And he got up, took the child and his mother by night, and withdrew to Egypt,

• Matthew 2:15

  and he was there until the death of Herod, so that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet might be fulfilled, when he says, “Out of Egypt I called my son.”

• Matthew 2:19

  And when Herod had died, look, an angel of the Lord appears in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,

• Acts 2:10

  Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene, and the visiting Romans,

• Acts 7:9

  And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; and God was with him

• Acts 7:10

  and rescued him from all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he made him governor over Egypt and all his household.

• Acts 7:11

  Then a famine came over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers were not finding food.

• Acts 7:12

  But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.

• Acts 7:15

  And Jacob went down to Egypt, and he died, and our fathers too,

• Acts 7:17

  But as the time of the promise that God had promised to Abraham drew near, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

• Acts 7:18

  until another king arose over Egypt who did not know Joseph.

• Acts 7:34

  I have surely seen the mistreatment of my people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and I have come down to rescue them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt.’

• Acts 7:36

  This man led them out, doing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.

• Acts 7:39

  Our fathers were not willing to be obedient to him, but they pushed him away and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,

• Acts 7:40

  saying to Aaron, ‘Make for us gods who will go before us; for this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.’

• Acts 13:17

  The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and exalted the people during their stay as foreigners in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm he brought them out of it.

• Hebrews 3:16

  For who heard and provoked him? Was it not all those who came out of Egypt through Moses?

• Hebrews 8:9

  not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord.

• Hebrews 11:26

  considering the reproach of the Messiah greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt; for he was looking ahead to the recompense.

• Hebrews 11:27

  By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the anger of the king; for he held firm as seeing the one who is invisible.

• Jude 1:5

  But I want to remind you, though you know all things once for all, that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

• Revelation 11:8

  And their corpse will lie in the street of the great city, which is called spiritually Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

And 2 more times.