(place) by Deborah909 Mon Apr 24 2000 at 2:40:56
In biblical Hebrew, the name for Egypt. "Mitzrayim" connotes a narrow or cramped space.

One midrash equates Mitzrayim with the birth canal, and the suffering involved in the Exodus with labor and birth.

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