מִצְרִי
Egyptian
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
- Gentilic
- A noun naming a member of a people, tribe, or region of origin (e.g. an Israelite, a Moabite).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H4713 appears in the Book of Exodus — 32 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Exodus
- Exodus 1:13 מִצְרַ֛יִם n Proper The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,
- Exodus 1:19 הַ/מִּצְרִיֹּ֖ת ptcl def.art + n Gentilic fp The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women aren't like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth before the midwife comes to them."
- Exodus 2:11 מִצְרִ֔י n Gentilic ms It happened in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brothers, and looked at their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.
- Exodus 2:12 הַ/מִּצְרִ֔י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
- Exodus 2:14 הַ/מִּצְרִ֑י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms He said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?" Moses was afraid, and said, "Surely this thing is known."
- Exodus 2:19 מִצְרִ֔י n Gentilic ms They said, "An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock."
- Exodus 3:8 מִצְרַ֗יִם n Proper I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large 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 מִצְרַ֖יִם n Proper Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
- Exodus 3:20 מִצְרַ֔יִם n Proper I will put forth my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst of it, and after that he will let you go.
- Exodus 3:21 מִצְרָ֑יִם n Proper I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and it will happen that when you go, you shall not go empty-handed.
- Exodus 3:22 מִצְרָֽיִם n Proper But every woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of her who visits her house, jewels of silver, jewels of gold, and clothing; and you shall put them on your sons, and on your daughters. You shall despoil the Egyptians.
- Exodus 7:5 מִצְרַ֨יִם֙ n Proper The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I stretch forth my hand on Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them."
- Exodus 7:18 מִצְרַ֔יִם n Proper The fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall become foul; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river."'"
- Exodus 7:21 מִצְרַ֔יִם n Proper The fish that were in the river died; and the river became foul, and the Egyptians couldn't drink water from the river; and the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 7:24 מִצְרַ֛יִם n Proper All the Egyptians dug round about the river for water to drink; for they couldn't drink of the water of the river.
- Exodus 8:21 מִצְרַ֨יִם֙ n Proper Else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you, and on your servants, and on your people, and into your houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are.
- Exodus 8:26 מִצְרַ֔יִם מִצְרַ֛יִם n Proper n Proper Moses said, "It isn't appropriate to do so; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to Yahweh our God. Behold, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and won't they stone us?
- Exodus 9:6 מִצְרָ֑יִם n Proper Yahweh did that thing on the next day; and all the cattle of Egypt died, but of the cattle of the children of Israel, not one died.
- Exodus 9:11 מִצְרָֽיִם n Proper The magicians couldn't stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boils were on the magicians, and on all the Egyptians.
- Exodus 10:6 מִצְרַיִם֒ n Proper Your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; as neither your fathers nor your fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.'" He turned, and went out from Pharaoh.
- Exodus 11:3 מִצְרָ֑יִם n Proper Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.
- Exodus 12:33 מִצְרַ֨יִם֙ n Proper The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, "We are all dead men."
- Exodus 14:4 מִצְרַ֖יִם n Proper I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his host; and the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh." They did so.
- Exodus 14:9 מִצְרַ֜יִם n Proper The Egyptians pursued after them: all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army; and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon.
- Exodus 14:10 מִצְרַ֣יִם n Proper When Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to Yahweh.
- Exodus 14:12 מִצְרָ֑יִם מִצְרַ֔יִם n Proper n Proper Isn't this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, 'Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?' For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness."
- Exodus 14:13 מִצְרַ֨יִם֙ n Proper Moses said to the people, "Don't be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today: for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall never see them again.
- Exodus 14:17 מִצְרַ֔יִם n Proper I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall go in after them: and I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over all his host, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.
- Exodus 14:18 מִצְרַ֖יִם n Proper The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have gotten myself honor over Pharaoh, over his chariots, and over his horsemen."
- Exodus 14:23 מִצְרַ֨יִם֙ n Proper The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst of the sea: all of Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
- Exodus 14:24 מִצְרַ֔יִם מִצְרָֽיִם n Proper n Proper It happened in the morning watch, that Yahweh looked out on the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.
- Exodus 32:12 מִצְרַ֜יִם n Proper Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them forth for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?' Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
מצרי (Mitsrîy) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Egyptian.” It first appears in Genesis 12:12. Spanning 67 verses in 11 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Hebrew Bible. Exodus dominates its distribution — 32 of 67 verses. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4713 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 67
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 67 distinct verses.
- 11 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 11 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #523
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 523 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 67 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 67 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 57 verses · 85%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 7 verses · 10%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 4%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Egyptian 14×, Egyptian's 3×, Egyptians 3×
- American Standard Version: Egyptian 16×, Egyptians 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Egyptians 38×, Egyptian 17×, Although the egyptian 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Egyptians 43×, Egyptian 23×, Egypt 10×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4713 across 27 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4713 across 27 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4713 across 65 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 5 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4713 across 76 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. adj. אִישׁ מ׳=an Egyptian Gn 39:1 Ex 2:11, 19 Lv 24:10 1 S 30:11 2 S 23:30; הָאִישׁ הַמּ׳ 1 Ch 11:23; נַעַר מ׳ 1 S 30:13, עֶבֶד מ׳ 1 Ch 2:34; שִׁפְחָה מִצְרִית Gn 16:1, כַּנָּשִׁים הַמִּצְרִיֹּת Ex 1:19. e.g. Genesis 39:1
- 2. c. art.=subst. the Egyptian Gn 39:2, 5 Ex 2:12, 14 2 S 23:30(×2) 1 Ch 11:23(×2); so once without art. מִצְרִי Dt 23:8; הַמִּצְרִי once (late) coll.=the Egyptians Ezr 9:1 (where with Canaanitish peoples); pl.=the Egyptians, הָמִּצְרִים Gn 12:12, 14; 43:32 Dt 26:6 Jos 24:7; fs. הָגָר הַמִּצְרִית Hagar the Egyptian woman Gn 16:3; 21:9; 25:12. e.g. Genesis 39:2
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
adj.gent. Egyptian;—ms. מ׳ Gn 39:1 + 16 times; fs. מִצְרִית 16:1 + 3 times; mpl. מִצְרִים 12:12 + 5 times; fpl. מִצְרִיֹּת Ex 1:19;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from מצרים (Mitsrayim) (H4714) — Egypt.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
*מִצְרִי I
- (v. מָצַר I) anything twisted of rushes, palm-twigs &c. חבל מ׳ a common rope (badge of disgrace worn by the Sotah, v. סוֹטָה). Sot. I, 6; a. fr.—[Y. ib. I, 17ᵃ top; Num. R. s. 9 take our w. to mean Egyptian, v. next w.].—Fem. מִצְרִית. Sot. II, 1, a. fr. כפיפה מ׳, v. כְּפִיפָה.
מִצְרִי II
- (b. h.) Egyptian. Yeb. VIII, 3 מ׳ ואדומי an Egyptian and an Edomite convert. Ib. 76ᵇ, a. e. גר מ׳ היה לי וכ׳ an Egyptian proselyte was my fellow student &c. Ib. מ׳ ראשון an original Egyptian proselyte, opp. to מ׳ שני the son of an Egyptian proselyte. B. Bath. III, 6 סולם המ׳ an Egyptian (small) ladder; a. fr.—Pl. מִצְרִיִּים, מִצְרִים. Pes. X, 5. Ex. R. s. 1; a. fr.—Fem. מִצְרִית. Yeb. l. c. מ׳ ראשונה, מ׳ שנייה, v. supra. B. Bath. l. c. חלון המ׳, v. חַלּוֹן; a. fr.—Pl. מִצְרִיּוֹת. Ex. R. l. c.; a. fr.
מִצְרַי
- , v. מִצְרָאָה
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 37 distinct written forms H4713 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מִצְרַ֔יִם | Noun, Proper | Exodus 3:20 | 10 |
| מִצְרַ֨יִם֙ | Noun, Proper | Exodus 7:5 | 7 |
| מִצְרַ֖יִם | Noun, Proper | Exodus 3:9 | 6 |
| מִצְרִ֔י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 23:7 | 5 |
| מִצְרָ֑יִם | Noun, Proper | Exodus 3:21 | 4 |
| מִצְרָֽיִם | Noun, Proper | Exodus 3:22 | 4 |
| הַ/מִּצְרִ֔י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 2:12 | 3 |
| מִצְרַ֛יִם | Noun, Proper | Exodus 1:13 | 3 |
| מִצְרַ֜יִם | Noun, Proper | Exodus 14:9 | 3 |
| הַ/מִּצְרִ֖י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezra 9:1 | 2 |
| הַ/מִּצְרִ֗ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 43:32 | 2 |
| הַ/מִּצְרִ֛ית | Noun, Gentilic, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 21:9 | 2 |
| הַ/מִּצְרִ֑י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 2:14 | 1 |
| הַ/מִּצְרִ֔ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 12:12 | 1 |
| הַ/מִּצְרִ֖ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Deuteronomy 26:6 | 1 |
| הַ/מִּצְרִ֜י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 11:23 | 1 |
| הַ/מִּצְרִ֤י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 11:23 | 1 |
| הַ/מִּצְרִֽי | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 39:2 | 1 |
| הַ/מִּצְרִי֙ | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Samuel 23:21 | 1 |
| הַ/מִּצְרִיֹּ֖ת | Noun, Gentilic, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Exodus 1:19 | 1 |
| הַ/מִּצְרִים֙ | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 12:14 | 1 |
| הַ/מִּצְרִית֙ | Noun, Gentilic, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 16:3 | 1 |
| וְ/לַ/מִּצְרִ֞ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 43:32 | 1 |
| וּ/מִצְרַ֣יִם | Noun, Proper | Numbers 33:4 | 1 |
| לְ/מִצְרַ֔יִם | Noun, Proper | Genesis 41:56 | 1 |
| לְ/מִצְרָ֑יִם | Noun, Proper | Genesis 50:11 | 1 |
| לְ/מִצְרָֽיִם | Noun, Proper | Genesis 43:32 | 1 |
| מִצְרִ֖י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 2:34 | 1 |
| מִצְרִ֖ית | Noun, Gentilic, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 16:1 | 1 |
| מִצְרִ֜י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Samuel 23:21 | 1 |
| מִצְרִ֣י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Samuel 30:13 | 1 |
| מִצְרִי֙ | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Samuel 30:11 | 1 |
| מִצְרַ֗יִם | Noun, Proper | Exodus 3:8 | 1 |
| מִצְרַ֣יִם | Noun, Proper | Exodus 14:10 | 1 |
| מִצְרַ֥יִם | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 6:6 | 1 |
| מִצְרַ֨יִם | Noun, Proper | Genesis 47:15 | 1 |
| מִצְרַיִם֒ | Noun, Proper | Exodus 10:6 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 67 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 67 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 12:12
- Exodus 1:13
- Leviticus 24:10
- Numbers 14:13
- Deuteronomy 23:7
- Joshua 24:6
- Judges 6:9
- 1 Samuel 6:6
- 2 Samuel 23:21
- 1 Chronicles 2:34
- Ezra 9:1
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
