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title: מִצְרִי — Egyptian · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מִצְרִי (4713), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 30 times: Egyptian. BDB 1906: adj.gent. Egyptian. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מִצְרִי

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«מִצְרִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Egyptian** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 30 times · **Key:** 4713 · **BDB:** מִצְרִי

### Glosses

Egyptian (16); Egyptians (6); the.Egyptian (5)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מִצְרִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4713/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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.

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