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# פּוֹטִיפַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6318

**Potiphar** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Potiphar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6318/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פּוֹטִיפַר: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6318/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Joseph’s master (abbrev. from foll.);—Gn 37:36 (E), 39:1 (RJ), Πετεφρης, etc.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Potiphar (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 37:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.37.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.37.36/#tree)

וְהַ֨מְּדָנִ֔ים מָכְר֥וּ אֹת֖וֹ אֶל־מִצְרָ֑יִם לְפֽוֹטִיפַר֙ סְרִ֣יס פַּרְעֹ֔ה שַׂ֖ר הַטַּבָּחִֽים׃פ

*Word for word:* and the Midianites they.sold him into Egypt to Potiphar an.official of.Pharaoh the.commander of the.bodyguards

*JPS 1917:* And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.

[Genesis 39:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.39.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.39.1/#tree)

וְיוֹסֵ֖ף הוּרַ֣ד מִצְרָ֑יְמָה וַיִּקְנֵ֡הוּ פּוֹטִיפַר֩ סְרִ֨יס פַּרְעֹ֜ה שַׂ֤ר הַטַּבָּחִים֙ אִ֣ישׁ מִצְרִ֔י מִיַּד֙ הַיִּשְׁמְעֵאלִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר הוֹרִדֻ֖הוּ שָֽׁמָּה׃

*Word for word:* and Joseph he.had.been.brought.down to Egypt and he bought.him Potiphar the.official of.Pharaoh the.commander of the.bodyguards a.man an.Egyptian from the.hand of the.Ishmaelites who they had.brought.him.down to (to)

*JPS 1917:* And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hand of the Ishmaelites, that had brought him down thither.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6318.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6318/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).