Egypt in the Bible

Meaning: that troubles or oppresses; anguish

Exact Match

And the sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.

Verse ConceptsEthiopiaDescendants of

And Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,

Verse ConceptsImmigrants

And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:

Verse ConceptsBeauty, In WomenWomen's BeautyBeauty Of NatureTrust In RelationshipsThe Beauty Of NatureBeing Beautifulsarah

And I am certain that when the men of Egypt see you, they will say, This is his wife: and they will put me to death and keep you.

Verse ConceptsKept Alive By MenTransferring Wives

And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.

Verse ConceptsRelationships With Boyfriend

And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Calling And LifeGoing Together

And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.

Verse ConceptsGarden Of Eden, TheHorticultureYielding To TemptationDestruction Of Cities

God said to Abram, “Know for sure that your descendants will be strangers [living temporarily] in a land (Egypt) that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.

Verse ConceptsForeignersOppression, Nature Of100 Years And MoreSojourningSure KnowledgeThose OppressedReckoned As ForeignersGroups Of SlavesStrangers in israelDescendants ofslaveryoppression

Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar.

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Testing And VictoryGod's Mercy, Example OfNamed WivesWifeHaving A Babyservanthoodbabysarahmistress

And they dwelt from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite to Egypt, as one goes towards Assyria. He settled before the face of all his brethren.

Verse ConceptsOpposite Sides

And Jehovah appeared to him and said, Go not down to Egypt: dwell in the land that I shall tell thee of.

Verse ConceptsGod AppearingGod Forbiddingland

And they sat down to eat bread; and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites came from Gilead; and their camels bore tragacanth, and balsam, and ladanum going to carry it down to Egypt.

Verse ConceptsBalmsCaravansHerbs And SpicesMoney, Uses OfMyrrhPerfumeTradeTravelCamelsCommercePeople EatingSitting In Fellowship

And Midianitish men, merchants, passed by; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty silver-pieces; and they brought Joseph to Egypt.

Verse ConceptsMerchantsSilverTradeCommercePrice Set On IndividualsTrade With Metals

And the Midianites sold him into Egypt, to Potiphar, a chamberlain of Pharaoh, the captain of the life-guard.

Verse ConceptsCaptainsGuardsExecutionersCommerce

And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, a chamberlain of Pharaoh, the captain of the life-guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hand of the Ishmaelites who had brought him down thither.

Verse ConceptsCaptainsRankTradeAnger Of Man, UnrighteousGod's Mercy, Example Of

And it came to pass after these things, that the cup-bearer of the king of Egypt and the baker offended their lord the king of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsCupbearerBakersArts And Crafts, Types ofOffenceButlersWronging Other People

And they dreamed a dream, both of them in one night, each his dream, each according to the interpretation of his dream, the cup-bearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were imprisoned in the tower-house.

Verse ConceptsVisions At Night

And it came to pass in the morning, that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the scribes of Egypt, and all the sages who were therein, and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none to interpret them to Pharaoh.

Verse ConceptsDivination, Practiced ByMorningRestlessnessWisdom, Human NatureMagiciansWise MenKings SummoningNo One AvailableTelling Dreams

And behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor, and very ill-formed, and lean-fleshed such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness.

Verse ConceptsSeven AnimalsUnique CreaturesBad Items

And there will arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine will waste away the land.

Verse ConceptsForgetting ThingsBad Luck

And now let Pharaoh look himself out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsDiscretionAuthority Delegated To People

Let Pharaoh do this: let him appoint overseers over the land, and take the fifth part of the land of Egypt during the seven years of plenty,

Verse ConceptsTaxationFractions, One FifthPlenty In EgyptAuthority Delegated To People

And let the food be as store for the land for the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt, that the land perish not through the famine.

Verse ConceptsFrugality

And he caused him to ride in the second chariot that he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee! and he set him over all the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsChariotsSalutationsBowing Before JosephAuthority Delegated To People

And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh; and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsThis Is MeAuthority Delegated To People

And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnath-paaneah, and gave him as wife Asnath the daughter of Potipherah the priest in On. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningChanged NamesPeople Renaming PeopleAuthority Delegated To People

And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from Pharaoh, and passed through the whole land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsThirtyTravelAuthority Delegated To People

And he gathered up all the food of the seven years that was in the land of Egypt, and put the food in the cities; the food of the fields of the city, which were round about it, he laid up in it.

Verse ConceptsThriftGathering Food

and the seven years of the dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said. And there was dearth in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

And all the land of Egypt suffered from the dearth. And the people cried to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, Go to Joseph: what he says to you, that do.

Verse ConceptsRequesting Food

And the famine was on all the earth. And Joseph opened every place in which there was provision, and sold grain to the Egyptians; and the famine was grievous in the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsStoringStorehousesThe Act Of OpeningOpening Containers

And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was grievous on the whole earth.

Verse ConceptsBuying and sellingMoney, Uses Of

And Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?

Verse ConceptsLooking Intently At PeopleSeeing Situations

And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down thither and buy grain for us from thence, in order that we may live, and not die.

Verse ConceptsVisitingKept Alive By Men

Israel's sons went in a caravan that included others who were going to Egypt to buy grain, because the famine pervaded the land of Canaan, too.

Verse ConceptsMoney, Uses Of

And it happened [that] as they finished eating the grain which they had brought from Egypt their father said to them, "Return and buy a little food for us."

Verse ConceptsBuying FoodEnd Of Actions

If you will send our brother with us, we will go down [to Egypt] and buy you food.

Verse ConceptsGoing Together

So the men took this gift, and they took double money in their hands, and Benjamin, and they rose up and went down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.

Verse ConceptsDouble MoneyIndeterminate Sums Of Money

So Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." And they drew near. And he said, "I [am] Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

Verse ConceptsThis Is MeIdentity

"I'm your brother Joseph, whom you sold into slavery in Egypt!" he told them. "But don't be distressed or angry at yourselves because you sold me here, because God sent me ahead of you all in order to deliver us.

Verse ConceptsAfflicted Saints, Examples OfKept Alive By GodIndividuals Saving OthersIdentitypreservation

Hurry, and go up to my father and say to him, 'Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me and do not delay.

Verse ConceptsChildren, Good Examples OfPeople Who DelayedHurrying Others On

And you must tell my father of all my honor in Egypt and all that you have seen. Now hurry and bring my father here."

Verse ConceptsHurrying Others On

and take your father and your households and come to me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land.'

Verse ConceptsFatnessFat Of AnimalsPlenty In Egyptland

And you [Joseph], are commanded [to say] this: 'Do this! Take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and your wives, and bring your father and come!

Verse ConceptsCartsWagons

{Do not worry} about your possessions, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.'"

Verse ConceptsLooking Backpossessions

And to his father he sent {as follows}: ten donkeys carrying the best of Egypt, and ten donkeys carrying grain and food and provisions for his father for the journey.

Verse ConceptsTen AnimalsMultitudes Of Donkeys

So they went up from Egypt and came to the land of Canaan to Jacob their father.

And they spoke to him, saying, "Joseph [is] still alive, and he [is] ruler over all the land of Egypt." And his heart {went numb}, because he did not believe him.

Verse ConceptsFaintingNot Believing PeopleLiving On

Then he said, "I [am] the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you a great nation there.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamI Am GodDo Not Fear For God Will Help

And they took their livestock and their possessions that they had acquired in the land of Canaan. And they came to Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him,

his sons and his sons' sons with him, his daughters and his daughters' daughters with him, into Egypt.

Verse ConceptsGrandchildren

Now these [are] the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons. Reuben, the firstborn of Jacob

Verse ConceptsFirstbornFirstborn Sons

And Ephraim and Manasseh, whom Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, priest of On bore to him, were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsOccupations

All the persons belonging to Jacob who came to Egypt {who were his descendants}, not including the wives of the sons of Jacob [were] sixty-six persons in all.

Verse ConceptsSixties

And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt [were] two persons. All the persons of the house of Jacob who came to Egypt [were] seventy.

Verse ConceptsSeventiesSeventyTwo Sons

The land of Egypt [is] before you. Settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land. Let them live in the land of Goshen, and if you know there is among them men of ability, then appoint them overseers of my own livestock."

Verse ConceptsAbilityCompetence

And Joseph settled his father and his brothers, and he gave them property in the land of Egypt in the best part of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had instructed.

Verse ConceptsJacob, Life And Character Of

Now there was no food in all the land, for the famine [was] very severe. And the land of Egypt languished, with the land of Canaan, on account of the famine.

Verse ConceptsFaintingWithout Strength

And Joseph collected all the money found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan in exchange for the grain that they were buying. And Joseph brought the money into the house of Pharaoh.

Verse ConceptsPalacesFinancesSaving Money

And when the money was spent in the land of Egypt and from the land of Canaan, all of Egypt came to Joseph, saying, "Give us food! Why should we die before you? For the money is used up."

Verse ConceptsRequesting FoodPossibility Of DeathIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyShortage Other Than FoodFinancesSaving Money

So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for each Egyptian sold his field, for the famine [was] severe upon them. And the land became Pharaoh's.

Verse ConceptsFieldsProperty, LandPurchasingReal EstatePeople Possessing Other Things

As for the people, he transferred them to the cities, from one end of the territory of Egypt to the other.

So Joseph made it a statute unto this day concerning the land of Egypt: one fifth to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests alone did not belong to Pharaoh.

Verse ConceptsHuman LawStatutes To This Day

So Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen. And they acquired possessions in it and were fruitful and multiplied greatly.

Verse ConceptsFruitfulness, NaturalPeople Multiplying

And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. And the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred and forty-seven years.

Verse ConceptsAge, Lived Over 100Age, Span Of Life15 To 20 YearsAge At Death

When {the time of Israel's death drew near}, he called to his son, to Joseph. And he said to him, "If I have found favor in your eyes, please put your hand under my thigh, that you might [vow] to deal kindly and faithfully with me. Please do not bury me in Egypt,

Verse ConceptsKindnessLoyaltyA Time To DieThighsNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon HappenImmigrants

but let me lie with my ancestors. Carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial site." And he said, "I will do according to your word."

Verse ConceptsChildren, Good KidsCarrying Dead BodiesThe Cave Of MachpelahGathered To One's People

And now, your two sons who were born to you in the land of Egypt before my coming to you in Egypt, are mine. Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine as Reuben and Simeon [are].

Verse ConceptsAdoption, nature ofSonsTwo SonsPeople Possessing Other Things

"These are my sons," Joseph replied. "God gave them to me here in Egypt." "Please bring them close to me," Jacob said, "so I can bless them."

Verse ConceptsChildren, attitudes towardsSanctity Of LifeChildren, A Gift From GodPeople Who Blessed Others

So Joseph went up to bury his father. And all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, went up with him,

Verse ConceptsCeremoniesOld Age, Attitudes To

And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the grain floor of thorns, and they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians. Therefore they called its name, Meadow of Egypt, which is beyond Jordan.

Verse ConceptsMourningMourning DeathBeyond Jordan

And after burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.

Verse ConceptsReturning to their land

So Joseph remained in Egypt, he and the house of his father. And Joseph lived one hundred and ten years.

Verse ConceptsAge At DeathLiving In The Land

And these [are] the names of the sons of Israel who came [to] Egypt; with Jacob, they each came with his {family}:

And {all those who descended from Jacob} were seventy individuals, and Joseph was in Egypt.

Verse ConceptsSeventySeventies

And the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives--of whom the name of the one [was] Shiphrah and the name of the second [was] Puah--

Verse ConceptsInfanticide

And the king of Egypt summoned the midwives, and he said to them, "Why have you done this thing and let the boys live?"

Verse ConceptsKept Alive By MenKings SummoningWhy Do You Do This?

And the midwives answered Pharaoh, that the Hebrews' women were not as the women of Egypt: but were sturdy women, and were delivered yer the midwives came at them.

Verse ConceptsVigourNot Like PeopleBirthWomen WorkingHaving A Babychildbearing

Go and gather the elders of Israel and say to them, 'Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, appeared to me, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, "I have carefully attended to you and what has been done to you in Egypt."

Verse Conceptselders, as community leadersWatchfulness, DivineAssembling LeadersGod AppearingGod Paid Attention To ThemThe Elders GatheredThe Elderly

And I said, "I will bring you up from the misery of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey." '

Verse ConceptsFoodMilk And HoneyRich Foodland

And they will listen to your voice, and you will go, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you will say to him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews has met with us, and now let us please go [on] a journey of three days into the desert, and let us sacrifice to Yahweh our God.'

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DistancesThree DaysParticular JourneysA Feast In The WildernessPaying Attention To People

And I will stretch out my hand, and I will strike Egypt with all of my wonders that I will do in its midst, and {afterward} he will release you.

Verse ConceptsGod's HandStrength Of GodGod's Hands Stretched Out

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And being warned of God in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back into their own country another way. And when they were departed, behold an angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Rise and take the child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and continue there, untill I tell thee to return: for Herod will seek the child to destroy Him.






































































And Moses was trained up in all the wisdom of the Egyptians: and he was mighty in words, and in deeds.





























By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he continued firm as seeing Him who is invisible.





































and stayed there till the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which the Lord spake by the prophet, saying, " Out of Egypt have I called my Son."



And Moses was trained up in all the wisdom of the Egyptians: and he was mighty in words, and in deeds.








































































































And there came a famine over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction; and our fathers could not find sustenance.

























esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt, for he looked to the recompence of reward.








































And when they were departed, behold an angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Rise and take the child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and continue there, untill I tell thee to return: for Herod will seek the child to destroy Him. And he arose and took the child and his mother by night, and went away into Egypt: and stayed there till the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which the Lord spake by the prophet, saying, " Out of Egypt have I called my Son." read more.
Then Herod, when he saw that he was baffled by the wise-men, was very much enraged; and he sent and slew all the male-children in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had exactly inquired of the wise-men. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremias the prophet, saying, In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel bewailing her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not. But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, Arise and take the child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they, that sought the child's life, are dead.















And their dead bodies shall fall in the street of the great city, which is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.






And God spake thus unto him, "that his seed should sojourn in a strange country, and they shall in slave and abuse them four hundred years:"

This then I say, that the law, which was given four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul the covenant, which was so long before confirmed by God unto Christ, to make void the promise.