מִצְרִי
Mitsrîy · mits-ree'
a Mitsrite, or inhabitant of Mitsrajim
Lexicon
Derivation: from H4714 (מִצְרַיִם);
a Mitsrite, or inhabitant of Mitsrajim
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Egyptian, of Egypt.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › to pursue the straight path › the head, the highest › the hand that works
Water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to pursue the straight path of the head, the highest of the hand that works.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מִצְרִי above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
70 occurrences · 70 OT · 0 NT · 34 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- an egyptian9 · 30%
- the egyptian6 · 20%
- the egyptians2 · 7%
- out of the egyptian's2 · 7%
- therefore it shall come to pass, when the egyptians1 · 3%
- the egyptian's1 · 3%
- for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the egyptians1 · 3%
- with him, by themselves: because the egyptians1 · 3%
- are not as the egyptian women1 · 3%
- was an egyptian1 · 3%
- and the egyptians1 · 3%
- between you and the egyptians1 · 3%
- of egypt1 · 3%
- and the egyptian1 · 3%
- high; and in the egyptian's1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.