Word

פּוֹטִיפַר

Pôwṭîyphar · H6318 · Hebrew · proper noun · 2 occurrences

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Person

Potipharfirst named in Genesis 37:362 verses

Meanings

Potiphar

A man who was an official of the king of Egypt and bought Joseph as a slave

Examples
Genesis 37:36 Meanwhile, the Midianites sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, Pharaoh’s officer, the captain of the bodyguard.
Genesis 39:1 Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an Egyptian officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the bodyguard, bought him from the Ishmaelites, who had taken him down there.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 3 groups

סָרִיסeunuch, official 2
שַׂרcommander, chief, official 2
אִישׁman, person, each 1

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

קָנָהto buy, to acquire 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

לto/for 2

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Names of People003001007: פּוֹטִיפַר is the personal name Potiphar, the Egyptian officer of Pharaoh who purchased Joseph as a slave.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6318. Potiphar מּוֺטִיפַר proper name, masculine Joseph's master (abbreviated from…

H6318. Potiphar
מּוֺטִיפַר proper name, masculine Joseph's master (abbreviated from following); — Gen 37:36 (E), Gen 39:1 (RJ), Πετεφρης, etc.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of People2 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0