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Mizraim in the Bible — Hidden Meaning & Symbolism

Mizraim, miz'-rå-;m (Heb.)-- Egypt; Egyptians; circumscription; limitation; bondage; affliction; tribulation; straitness; distress. Son of Ham (Gen. 10:6). Meta Ham, the father of Mizraim, typifies the physical in man, given over to sensuality. Mizraim signifies the sense belief that the life as well as the organism of man is bound in materiality, and that man is subject to sorrows and to all forms of errors that hinder him from receiving good (limitation, bondage, tribulation).

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