Mŭṣŭr ( u ), Muṣru, Miṣir , Dl ^{Par 308} Schr ^COT Gloss. KGF 246 ff. , TelAm. Miṣrî , Wkl TA 39

Bez ^{BM 152}, and Mas̆rî Wkl l.c. ; Arabic مَصْر ( maṣr ) Cairo, Egypt (Spiro); Min. Miṣru Hom A. and A. (1892), 125 ; v. also Eb ^{ÄgM 71 ff.}; Ö Αἴγυπτος ;—deriv. and form

dub. ; ים — ַ usually regarded as dual term. (Upper and Lower Egypt? cf. Di Gn 10:6 ), but as loc. ending EMey Gesch. i. § 42 Ba ^NB p. 319 R. 5 ; Jen ^ZA iv (1889), 268 ff. thinks מִצְרַיִם abs. formed by anal. of מַיִם , שָׁמַיִם from Miṣrî ( cf. TelAm .); v. further Wkl infra, ad fin. ) ;— מ׳ Gn 13:1 +; מִצְרָ˜יִם 37:36 +; מִצְר˜יְמָה 12:10 + 12 times, מִצְרָ˜יְמָה 12:11 + 4 times;— 1. a. of land, Egypt , Gn 13:1 + 500 times, + , in all periods, incl. אֶרֶץ מ׳ 13:10 + c. 220 times (of course
f. , 47:6 , 13 ); אַדְמַת מ׳ the soil of Egypt •47:2 0, 26 ; מֵימֵי מ׳ •Ex 7:1 9; 8:2 ; נְהַר מ׳ •Gn 15:1 8; יְאֹר מ׳ •Am 8: 8; 9:5 ; יְאֹרֵי מ׳ •Is 7:18 ( cf. מָצוֹר ); שִׁיחֹור מ׳ •1 Ch 13: 5; יָם־מ׳ לְשֹׁון •Is 11:1 5; נַחַל מ׳ Jos 15:4 + 6 times ( v . these various wds. ); land as productive Gn 45:20 ; 49:23 , cf. שֵׁשׁ בְּרִקְמָה מִמּ׳ Ez 27: 7, אֵטוּן מ׳ Pr 7:1 6; often || כּוּט , especially in proph. and poet. Is 20:3 , 4 , 5 ; 45:14 Ez 30: 4, 9 +; || אַשּׁוּר Ho 11:1 1; 12:1 Is 7:18 Je 2:18 +; incl. Upper Egypt ( פַּתְרֹוס ), as well as Lower, Je 44:1 , cf. Ez

gent. gentis , of a people, gentilicium . infr. infra, below.

Ph. Phenician. Dl Friedrich Delitzsch, Wo lag das Paradies? Schr E. Schrader.

COT The Cuneiform Inscr. & the Old Test. (Eng. Trans. of KAT ²;, by O.H. Whitehouse).

Gloss. glossary, rarely = a gloss. TelAm. TA, q.v. .

Wkl H. Winckler.

TA Tel el-Amarna; also Tajal-Ar s (Arab. Dict.). Bez C. Bezold.

l.c. in loco citato. Min. Minaean. Hom F. Hommel, Aufsäte u. Abhandlungen . Eb G. Ebers, Aegypten u. d. Bücher Mosis ; dub. dubious, doubtful.

Di A. Dillmann. loc. local, locality. EMey Eduard Meyer,

Gesch. Geschichte. Ba J. Barth, Nominalbildung . Jen P. Jensen.

ZA Zeitschr. für Assyriologie .

fin. finite, finitivum.
c. circa , about; also cum , with. wds. word, also would.