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Potiphar
[ pot-uh-fer ]
noun
- the Egyptian officer whose wife tried to seduce Joseph. Genesis 39:1–20.
Potiphar
/ ˈpɒtɪfə /
noun
- Old Testament one of Pharaoh's officers, who bought Joseph as a slave (Genesis 37:36)
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Potiphar1
Hebrew Pōṭīphar, Pōthīpheraʿ, from Egyptian p,ʾdj p,ʾre “he whom (the god) Re gives”
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Example Sentences
Joseph was then thirty years of age, having served Potiphar ten years, and spent two or three years in prison.
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But neither Joseph nor Potiphar could by any possibility have heard of the laws enunciated on Sinai.
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She's a beauty, gentlemen, sired by the famous Potiphar who won the Epsom Handicap and no end of minor stakes.
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When he is a slave in Potiphar's house he discharges all his duties so discreetly that the prison-keeper trusts him implicitly.
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Even centuries before, had not Potiphar's wife, from whom Joseph fled, resorted to certain successful slanderous means?
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