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Mizraim
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Dual of mazor , Hebrew a "fortified place"; Gesenius, from Arabic meser , a "boundary". Rather the Egyptian Μes-ra-n , "children of Ra" the Sun. Son of Ham, ancestor of the Mizraim; the dual indicating the people of Upper and of Lower Egypt (Genesis 10:6). The descent of the Egyptians from Ham is recognized in Psalms 104:23; Psalms 104:27; Psalms 78:51, where Egypt is called "the land of Ham." They called themselves Κhemi , either "Hamites" or from Κhem "black," namely, the alluvial soil of the Nile. Mizraim geographically was the center from whence colonies went forth in the age just after the flood, the Philistines, the Lehabim (Libyans), etc. (See HAM; EGYPT.)
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Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Mizraim'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/m/mizraim.html. 1949.
Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Mizraim'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/m/mizraim.html. 1949.
