mitsrayim · Egypt, Mizraim

What it means

mitsrayim (מִצְרַיִם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Egypt, Mizraim”.

Mizraim, the Hebrew name of Egypt; also the Egyptians. As a person, a son of Ham, ancestor of the Egyptians.

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

How it is translated

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

• Egypt ×612
• Egyptians ×19
• Mizraim ×4

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×79
• Exodus×145
• Leviticus×11
• Numbers×29
• Deuteronomy×50
• Joshua×17
• Judges×8
• 1 Samuel×12
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×25
• 2 Kings×15
• 1 Chronicles×4
• 2 Chronicles×19
• Nehemiah×2
• Psalms×15
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×51
• Jeremiah×62
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×54
• Daniel×4
• Hosea×13
• Joel×1
• Amos×7
• Micah×2
• Nahum×1
• Haggai×1
• Zechariah×4

• Genesis 10:6

  And the sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

• Genesis 10:13

  And Mizraim fathered the Ludim, the Anamim, the Lehabim, the Naphtuhim,

• Genesis 12:10

  There was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to reside as an alien there, for the famine was severe in the land.

• Genesis 12:11

  When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “Look, I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance.

• Genesis 12:14

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

• Genesis 13:1

  Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him.

• Genesis 13:10

  Lot lifted his eyes and saw the whole plain of the Jordan, that all of it was well-watered (before YHWH destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of YHWH, like the land of Egypt, as you go toward Zoar.

• Genesis 15:18

  On that day YHWH made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

• Genesis 21:21

  He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took for him a wife from the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 25:18

  They lived from Havilah to Shur, which is facing Egypt as you go toward Assyria. He settled facing all his brothers.

• Genesis 26:2

  YHWH appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land that I tell you.

• Genesis 37:25

  Then they sat down to eat bread; and they lifted their eyes and looked, and look, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels carrying aromatic gum, balm, and ladanum, on their way to take it down to Egypt.

• Genesis 37:28

  Then Midianite men, traders, passed by; and they drew and lifted Joseph out of the cistern and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver; and they brought Joseph to Egypt.

• Genesis 37:36

  Meanwhile the Medanites sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an official of Pharaoh, the chief of the guard.

• 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 40:1

  It happened after these things that the cupbearer of the king of Egypt and the baker sinned against their lord, the king of Egypt.

• Genesis 40:5

  And the two of them dreamed a dream, each his own dream, in one night, each according to the interpretation of his dream: the cupbearer and the baker who belonged to the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison.

• Genesis 41:8

  In the morning his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dream, but there was no one who could interpret them for Pharaoh.

• Genesis 41:19

  And look, seven other cows came up after them, poor and very ugly in form and lean in flesh; I have never seen any like them in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.

• Genesis 41:29

  Look, seven years are coming of great abundance in all the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 41:30

  But after them seven years of famine will arise, and all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will consume the land.

• Genesis 41:33

  Now let Pharaoh look for a man discerning and wise and set him over the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 41:34

  Let Pharaoh act, and appoint overseers over the land, and take a fifth of the land of Egypt in the seven years of abundance.

• Genesis 41:36

  The food will be a reserve for the land for the seven years of famine that will be in the land of Egypt, so that the land will not be cut off by the famine.”

• Genesis 41:41

  Pharaoh said to Joseph, “See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.”

• Genesis 41:43

  He had him ride in the second chariot that he had, and they cried out before him, “Abrek!” So he set him over all the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 41:44

  Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, and without you no one will lift his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.”

• Genesis 41:45

  Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-paneah, and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, as a wife. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 41:46

  Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and passed through all the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 41:48

  He gathered all the food of the seven years that were in the land of Egypt, and put food in the cities; the food of the fields of each city that surrounded it he put in it.

• Genesis 41:53

  The seven years of abundance that had been in the land of Egypt came to an end,

• Genesis 41:54

  and the seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all the lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

• 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 41:57

  All the earth came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was strong in all the earth.

• Genesis 42:1

  Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you keep looking at one another?”

• Genesis 42:2

  He said, “Look, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy for us from there, so that we may live and not die.”

• Genesis 42:3

  So Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

• Genesis 43:2

  When they had finished eating the grain that they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back, buy us a little food.”

• Genesis 43:15

  The men took this gift, and they took double silver in their hand, and Benjamin; and they got up and went down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.

And 595 more times.