Egypt: meaning of the name

Egypt in Hebrew and Greek

Places named Egypt

• Egypt

Egypt in Scripture

“Egypt” appears in 558 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• Genesis 12:10

  And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.

• Genesis 12:11

  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:

• Genesis 12:14

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

• Genesis 13:1

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

• Genesis 13:10

  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.

• Genesis 15:18

  In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

• Genesis 21:21

  And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 25:18

  And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his brethren.