Genesis 41:45
Verse
And Pharaoh called Joseph by the name of Zaphnath-paaneah. And He gave him Asenath the daughter of Potipherah, priest of On, for a wife. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-paneah. And he gave him in marriage Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On. So Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
And Pharaoh called the name of Joseph, Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of Heliopolis, to wife.
Footnotes
| 1236 | Strong’s #6847. Tsaphenath Paneach. Egyptian scholars thought it to mean “savior of the age”. “The Hebrews interpreted the Hebrew form of the word, revealer of a secret. See Targ., Syr., Kimchi.” Cf. Gesenius. Tsaphan (#6845) means to hide (by covering over) treasure up. This was used of Moses in Exodus 2:2,3 when his mother hid him for three months. Also used in Ps. 27:5, 31:29, 119:11, Prov. 10:14 etc. |
| 1237 | The Story of Asenath Strong’s #621. Ἀσσενεθ; Egyptian, = belonging to (goddess) Neith. Neith was an ancient goddess of war and weaving. According to the story of “Joseph and Aseneth” in the Apocryphal Old Testament (non-canonical writings composed between 300 B.C. and 100 B.C.) which reads like a myth or parable, Aseneth was the “fairest virgin in the land” yet “was scornful and proud, and a despiser of men.” She “despised all men and regarded them with contempt.” In this myth Joseph is called “the builder of God”, “the sun and chariot of the sun” and “great light is in him”. She mistakes him for a slave and then repents and offers herself as a maidservant and slave to him. Asenath later has a vision of a “morning star from the east”, the heaven torn open, and a man appearing that looks just like Joseph who is called Commander of the House of God, chief captain of the Army of the Most High. His face is as lightening, eyes like the sun’s light, hairs of his head as flames of fire, hands and feet as hot iron. Joseph’s look-alike answers when asked his name, “My name is written by the finger of God in the Book of the most high King, but all that is written therein may not be told, neither is it proper for the hearing of mortal man.” The story documents a conspiracy by “Pharaoh’s builder” to kill both Joseph and Asenath. |
| 1238 | Strong’s #203, אָוֶן on. Said to be of Egyptian origin yet it is the same as the Hebrew אוֹן on, wealth, vigor #202. |