Potipherah
Sign in to savethumb|160px|Joseph and Asenath together on this image in Berlin. Man depicted close to them may be Potiphera. According to the Hebrew Bible, Potiphera (, ) was a priest of the ancient Egyptian town of On, mentioned in the and . He was the father of Asenath, who was given to Joseph as his wife by the Pharaoh, () and who bore Joseph two sons: Manasseh and Ephraim.
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- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Ancient Egypt
- Child
- Asenath
- Occupation
- priest
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- Genesis 46
- different from
- Potiphar
- relative
- Joseph
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thumb|160px|Joseph and Asenath together on this image in Berlin. Man depicted close to them may be Potiphera. According to the Hebrew Bible, Potiphera (, ) was a priest of the ancient Egyptian town of On, mentioned in the and . He was the father of Asenath, who was given to Joseph as his wife by the Pharaoh, () and who bore Joseph two sons: Manasseh and Ephraim.
His name means "he whom Ra has given".
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