mitsri · Egyptian

What it means

mitsri (מִצְרִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Egyptian”.

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.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A person from Egypt, or what belongs to Egypt.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Egyptian: a person from Egypt. It is the gentilic of מִצְרַיִם, “Egypt”.

• Hagar the Egyptian; Potiphar, an Egyptian Genesis 16:1Genesis 39:1
• Moses and the Egyptian striking a Hebrew Exodus 2:11
• “The Egyptians will know that I am YHWH” Exodus 14:4
• What the Egyptians would not do Genesis 43:32
• “You shall not abhor an Egyptian” Deuteronomy 23:7

Historical and cultural background

Deuteronomy 23:7 gives a reason not to abhor the Egyptian: “for you were a resident alien in his land”.

How we translate it

“Egyptians” 46 times, “Egyptian” 24, and “Egypt” 6 where English names the country.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Egyptians ×46
• Egyptian ×24
• Egypt ×6

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×20
• Exodus×35
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×4
• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×2
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×3
• 2 Samuel×3
• 1 Chronicles×4
• Ezra×1

• Genesis 12:12

  When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ And they will kill me, but you they will keep alive.

• Genesis 12:14

  When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful.

• Genesis 16:1

  Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not borne him children; and she had an Egyptian slave woman whose name was Hagar.

• Genesis 16:3

  So Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her slave woman, at the end of ten years of Abram’s living in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife.

• Genesis 21:9

  But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, laughing.

• Genesis 25:12

  These are the generations of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s slave woman, bore to Abraham.

• Genesis 39:1

  Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an official of Pharaoh, the chief of the guard, an Egyptian man, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there.

• Genesis 39:2

  YHWH was with Joseph, and he became a successful man; and he was in the house of his lord the Egyptian.

• Genesis 39:5

  From the time that he appointed him in his house and over all that he had, YHWH blessed the house of the Egyptian because of Joseph; and the blessing of YHWH was on all that he had, in the house and in the field.

• Genesis 41:55

  When all the land of Egypt was hungry, the people cried out to Pharaoh for bread. Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph; what he tells you do.”

• Genesis 41:56

  The famine was over all the face of the earth, and Joseph opened all the storehouses that were in them and sold grain to the Egyptians; and the famine grew strong in the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 43:32

  They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, for the Egyptians could not eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.

• Genesis 45:2

  He raised his voice in weeping, and the Egyptians heard, and the household of Pharaoh heard.

• Genesis 46:34

  you shall say, ‘Your servants have been men of livestock from our youth until now, both we and our fathers,’ so that you may live in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd of flocks is an abomination to the Egyptians.”

• Genesis 47:15

  When the silver was gone from the land of Egypt and from the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us bread! Why should we die before you? For our silver is gone.”

• Genesis 47:20

  So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for the Egyptians sold each man his field, because the famine was strong upon them; and the land became Pharaoh’s.

• Genesis 50:3

  Forty days were completed for him, for so are completed the days of embalming; and the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

• Genesis 50:11

  When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a solemn mourning for the Egyptians.” Therefore its name was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

• Exodus 1:13

  The Egyptians made the sons of Israel work ruthlessly,

• Exodus 1:19

  The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and before the midwife comes to them they have given birth.”

• Exodus 2:11

  In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.

• Exodus 2:12

  He looked this way and that, and when he saw that there was no one, he struck the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

• Exodus 2:14

  He said, “Who made you a man, a ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and said, “Surely the thing is known.”

• Exodus 2:19

  They said, “An Egyptian man rescued us from the hand of the shepherds, and he even drew water for us and watered the flock.”

• Exodus 3:8

  And I have come down to rescue them from the hand of Egypt and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

• Exodus 3:9

  And now, look, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them.

• Exodus 3:20

  So I will stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all my marvels that I will do in its midst; and after that he will let you go.

• Exodus 3:21

  And I will give this people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians, and it will be that when you go, you will not go empty-handed.

• Exodus 3:22

  Each woman shall ask of her neighbor and of the woman who resides in her house articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing, and you shall put them on your sons and on your daughters; and so you shall plunder the Egyptians.”

• Exodus 7:5

  And the Egyptians will know that I am YHWH, when I stretch out my hand over Egypt and bring out the sons of Israel from their midst.”

• Exodus 7:18

  The fish that are in the Nile will die, and the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will loathe to drink water from the Nile.”’”

• Exodus 7:21

  The fish that were in the Nile died, and the Nile stank, and the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile; and the blood was in all the land of Egypt.

• Exodus 7:24

  All the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink from the water of the Nile.

• Exodus 8:21

  For if you do not let my people go, look, I am going to send on you, on your servants, on your people, and into your houses the swarms of flies; and the houses of the Egyptians will be filled with the swarms of flies, and also the ground on which they stand.

• Exodus 8:26

  But Moses said, “It is not right to do so, for what we sacrifice to YHWH our Elohim is an abomination to the Egyptians. If we sacrifice what is an abomination to the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not stone us?

• Exodus 9:6

  And YHWH did this thing the next day, and all the livestock of Egypt died, but of the livestock of the sons of Israel not one died.

• Exodus 9:11

  The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians.

• Exodus 10:6

  They will fill your houses and the houses of all your servants and the houses of all the Egyptians, such as your fathers and your fathers’ fathers have not seen, from the day they came to be on the earth until this day.’” Then he turned and went out from Pharaoh.

• Exodus 11:3

  YHWH gave the people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the eyes of Pharaoh’s servants and in the eyes of the people.

• Exodus 12:33

  The Egyptians pressed the people to hurry and send them out of the land, for they said, “We are all going to die!”

And 36 more times.