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Strong's #4644 - מֹף

Transliteration
Môph
Phonetics
mofe
Origin
of Egyptian origin
Parts of Speech
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Definition   
Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Memphis = “haven of the good”

1) a capital of Lower Egypt located on the western bank of the Nile about 9 miles (15 kilometers) south of Cairo

Frequency Lists
Verse Results
KJV (1)
Hosea 1
NAS (1)
Hosea 1
HCS (1)
Hosea 1
BSB (1)
Hosea 1
ESV (1)
Hosea 1
WEB (1)
Hosea 1
Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition
 מֹף proper name, of a location Memphis (Egyptian Mark -nfr, i.e. M§nn¥f§r, * M§nn¥f§, Steind BAS i. 594f.; Assyrian Mêmpi, Mimpi Schr COT Isaiah 19:13 Dl Par. 314; compare ErmanÄgypten 48,243 Eb Cicerone i. 114f.; ᵐ5 (and Gk) Μεμφις, on coins Μενφι(ς) Steind l.c.); — ׳מ Hosea 9:6 = נֹף Isaiah 19:13; Jeremiah 2:16; Jeremiah 44:1; Jeremiah 46:14,19; Ezekiel 30:13, and יוֺמָם וְנֹף צָרֵי Ezekiel 30:16 (without clear meaning, probably text error Siegf in Kau; ᵐ5 (apparently) וְנָפֹצוּ מֵימֵיהֶם and their waters shall be disperesed (compare Nahum 3:8); Co חומותיה ונפרצו and its walls shall be torn down); נֹף also Nahum 3:15 (for ᵑ0נא) ᵐ5 Co.

מִפְגָּע see פגע. מַמָּח, מַמֻּחַ see נפח.

מְפִ(י)בשֶׁת see ׳מְרִיב below ריב.


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Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

מֹף pr.n. Memphis, a city of Egypt, Hosea 9:6 elsewhere called נֹף Isaiah 19:13; Jeremiah 2:16 the ruins of which, although small, are found on the western bank of the Nile, to the south of Old Cairo; called by the Copts, ⲙⲉⲛϥⲓ; in Sahidic, ⲙⲉⲛϥⲉ, also ⲙⲉⲍⲛⲟⲩϥⲓ, (in the Rosetta inscriptions, page 5, as commonly read panoë), from which forms the Hebrew name, as well as the Gr. Μέμφις, and the Arab. منف are easily explained. The etymology of the Egyptian name is thus spoken of by Plutarch (De Iside et Osiride, p. 369), τὴν μὲν πόλιν Μέμφιν οἱ μὲν ὅρμον ἀγαθῶν (compare ⲙⲉⲍ full, and ⲛⲟⲩϥⲓ good) ἑρμηνεύουσιν, οἱ δʼ ὡς τάφον Ὀσίριδος (compare ⲙⲍⲁⲩ sepulchre, and ⲟⲛⲫⲓ = ευ�εργετης, an epithet of Osiris), both of which are applicable to Memphis, the sepulchre of Osiris, and the Necropolis of the Egyptians; and hence, also, the gate of the blessed, since burial was only allowed to the good. See Jablonskii Opuscc. edit. te Water, t. i. page 137, 150, 179; t. ii. page 131; Creuzeri, Commentatt. Herodot. § 11, page 105, seq.; Champollion, l’Egypte sous les Pharaons, i. page 363; my Comment. on Isa. loc. cit. [But see Thes. on this word and its hieroglyphic form, as shewn by Dr. Thomas Young.]


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מֹ֣ף מף mof mōp̄
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