Study it in the app“Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-paneah, and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, as a wife. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.”
PharaohפַרְעֹהcalledוַיִּקְרָאJoseph’sיוֹסֵףnameשֵׁםZaphenath-paneah,צָפְנַת פַּעְנֵחַand he gaveוַיִּתֶּןhimלוֹAsenath,אֶת אָסְנַתthe daughterבַּתof Potiphera,פּוֹטִי פֶרַעpriestכֹּהֵןof On,אֹןas a wife.לְאִשָּׁהAnd Josephוַ יוֹסֵףwent outיֵּצֵאoverעַלthe landאֶרֶץof Egypt.מִצְרָיִם
Pharaoh
Pharaoh: the title of the kings of Egypt, not a personal name.
Where else “faro” appearsname
To give someone a name.
Where else “yikra” appearsJoseph
Joseph, a name borne by several Israelites, above all the son of Jacob and Rachel, sold into Egypt, who became ruler there and saved his family; his sons Ephraim and Manasseh became tribes. The name means "may he add".
Where else “yosef” appearsname
The word by which a person, place or thing is called and recognized.
Where else “shem” appearsZaphenath-paneah
Zaphenath-paneah: the Egyptian name Pharaoh gave Joseph; its meaning is uncertain.
Where else “tsafnat” appearsgive
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “yiten” appearsAsenath
Asenath, the Egyptian wife of Joseph, mother of Manasseh and Ephraim.
Where else “asnat” appearsdaughter
A girl or woman born of her parents, who belongs to her father's house.
Where else “bat” appearsPotiphera
Potiphera, priest of the city of On, father-in-law of Joseph. He is not the Potiphar of Genesis 39.
Where else “poti” appearspagan priest
A priest of other gods.
Where else “kohen” appearsOn
On, a city of Egypt, center of the worship of the sun.
Where else “on” appearswife
Literally "his woman": the one married to him.
Where else “isha” appearsgo out
To go out of a place.
Where else “yetse” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “erets” appearsEgypt, Mizraim
See it on the mapWhere else “mitsrayim” appearsOn (later called Heliopolis) was the city of the Egyptian worship of the sun. The text only reports the marriage; Joseph’s sons receive names that speak of what God did for him (41:51-52).
Egypt
Today: Egypt (Nile Valley)
A country in northeast Africa along the Nile River, southwest of Israel.
Joseph was sold into it, and his family went down to live there (Gen 37:28; 46:6). God brought Israel out of it with a mighty hand (Exod 12:41). The child Jesus fled there with his parents (Matt 2:14).
44Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, and without you no one will lift his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.”
45 · This verse (above)
46Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and passed through all the land of Egypt.
1. What it says
What did Pharaoh dream, and what plan did Joseph propose (vv. 1-7, 33-36)?
2. What it means
Why did Pharaoh recognize that the spirit of Elohim was in Joseph (v. 38)?
3. How I live it
What can you wisely prepare today for hard times that might come?
