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Egyptian, the

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ē̇ -jip´shan ( ὁ Αἰγύπτιος , ho Aigúptios ): Mentioned in Acts 21:38 , by Claudius Lysias as having "before these days stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the ASSASSINS " (which see). Reference to this Egyptian and to the suppression of his rebellion by the procurator Felix is likewise found in Josephus (Ant. , XX, viii, 6; BJ , II, xiii, 5).