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Joseph Dwelleth in Egypt painted by James Jacques Joseph Tissot, c. 1900. Biblical Egypt (Hebrew: מִצְרַיִם; Mīṣrāyīm), or Mizraim, is a theological term used by historians and scholars to differentiate between Ancient Egypt as it is portrayed in Judeo-Christian texts and what is known about the region based on archaeological evidence.
Josephus mentions the Casluhim in his Jewish Antiquities I, vi, 2 as one of the Egyptian peoples whose cities were destroyed during the Ethiopic War and who thus disappeared from history. Arab historian Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406), citing Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli , wrote that the Berbers of North Africa were descended from Casluhim, the son of ...
List of nations mentioned in the Bible. 4 languages. ... Egypt [16] Ethiopia [17] G. Gaul [18] (modern France).
Mizraim is the Hebrew cognate of a common Semitic source word for the land now known as Egypt. It is similar to Miṣr in modern Arabic, Misri in the 14th century B.C. Akkadian Amarna tablets, [2] Mṣrm in Ugaritic, [3] Mizraim in Neo-Babylonian texts, [4] and Mu-ṣur in neo-Assyrian Akkadian (as seen on the Rassam cylinder). [5]
The land of Goshen (Hebrew: אֶרֶץ גֹּשֶׁן, ʾEreṣ Gōšen) is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as the area in Egypt that was allotted to the Hebrews by the Pharaoh during the time of Joseph (Book of Genesis, Genesis 45:9–10). They dwelt in Goshen up until the time of the Exodus, when they left Egypt.
According to the Hebrew Bible, Zoan (Biblical Hebrew: צֹועַן Ṣōʿan) was a city of Egypt in the eastern Nile delta. Book of Numbers 13:22 says that it was built seven years after Hebron was built.
and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him. The World English Bible translates the passage as: Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, "Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay
The Brook of Egypt (Hebrew: נַחַל מִצְרַיִם, romanized: naḥal mitzrayim, lit. 'wadi of Egypt' [ 1 ] ) is a wadi identified in the Hebrew Bible as forming the southernmost border of the Land of Israel . [ 2 ]