Abel-mizraim
אָבֵל מִצְרַיִםStrong’s H0067avel mitsrayim (a-vel mits-ra-yim)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Avel mitsrayim is the Hebrew word usually translated “abel” and “mizraim”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan.”
Meaning
- Abel Mizraim = "meadow of Egypt"
How it's translated
- abel 1
- mizraim 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
אָבֵל מִצְרַיִם avel mitsrayim · Abel-mizraim
Abel Mizraim = "meadow of Egypt" a place east of the Jordan (perhaps "as fertile as Egypt") Another name of a.tad (אָטָד "Atad" H0329G)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.