Egyptian
מִצְרִיStrong’s H4713mitsri (mits-ri)
Appears in 62 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mitsri is the Hebrew word usually translated “egypt”, “egyptian” and “egyptians”. It appears in 62 verses of the Old Testament.
“Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.”
Meaning
- Group of mits.ra.yim (מִצְרַ֫יִם "Egypt" H4714G)
How it's translated
- egypt 38
- the egyptian 12
- egyptian 10
- the egyptians 5
- an egyptian 2
- and for the egyptians 1
- to egypt 1
- and egypt 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 29
- Genesis 16
- Numbers 4
- 1 Samuel 3
- Deuteronomy 2
- Joshua 2
11 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 12:14And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.
- Genesis 16:1Now Sarai Abram’s wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
- Genesis 16:3And Sarai Abram’s wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
- Genesis 21:9And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.
- Genesis 25:12Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s handmaid, bare unto Abraham:
- Genesis 39:1And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.
All 62 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
מִצְרִי mitsri · Egyptian
Group of mits.ra.yim (מִצְרַ֫יִם "Egypt" H4714G) § Egyptian, of Egypt "double straits" Egyptian-an inhabitant or citizen of Egypt an Egyptian
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “egyptian” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EGYP'TIAN, adjective
Pertaining to Egypt in Africa.
All definitions and other forms of “egyptian”
EGYP'TIAN, noun
A native of Egypt; also, a gypsy.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.