6543. 'Therefore they called the name of it Abel Mizraim' means the essential nature of the grief. This is clear from the meaning of 'the name' and 'calling the name' as the essential nature, dealt with in 144, 145, 1754, 1896, 2009, 2724, 3006, 3421; and since in ancient times names were conferred which had real things and states as their meaning, the essential nature is accordingly meant, 1946, 3422, 4298. The essential nature of the grief is therefore meant by 'Abel Mizraim', a name which means in the original language The Mourning of the Egyptians.