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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
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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.
But neither Joseph nor Potiphar could by any possibility have heard of the laws enunciated on Sinai.
She's a beauty, gentlemen, sired by the famous Potiphar who won the Epsom Handicap and no end of minor stakes.
When he is a slave in Potiphar's house he discharges all his duties so discreetly that the prison-keeper trusts him implicitly.
Even centuries before, had not Potiphar's wife, from whom Joseph fled, resorted to certain successful slanderous means?
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