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# מִצְרִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4713

**Egyptian** — used 30 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Egyptian [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4713/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִצְרִי: adj.gent. Egyptian [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4713/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** 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;— 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. 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.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 24 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Egyptian (16); Egyptians (6); the Egyptian (5).

## In the verses

[Genesis 21:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.9/#tree)

וַתֵּ֨רֶא שָׂרָ֜ה אֶֽת־בֶּן־הָגָ֧ר הַמִּצְרִ֛ית אֲשֶׁר־יָלְדָ֥ה לְאַבְרָהָ֖ם מְצַחֵֽק׃

*Word for word:* and she.saw Sarah (et) the.son of.Hagar the Egyptian whom she.had.borne to Abraham mocking

*JPS 1917:* And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne unto Abraham, making sport.

[Genesis 25:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.12/#tree)

וְאֵ֛לֶּה תֹּלְדֹ֥ת יִשְׁמָעֵ֖אל בֶּן־אַבְרָהָ֑ם אֲשֶׁ֨ר יָלְדָ֜ה הָגָ֧ר הַמִּצְרִ֛ית שִׁפְחַ֥ת שָׂרָ֖ה לְאַבְרָהָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and these \[are\].the.accounts of.Ishmael the.son of.Abraham whom she.bore Hagar the Egyptian the.maidservant of.Sarah to Abraham

*JPS 1917:* Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore unto Abraham.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4713/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).