Bible Person
Meaning: peril; misfortune · Female · 3 cross references
Asenath is the Egyptian wife of Joseph and the mother of Ephraim and Manasseh. She stands at a significant intersection of providence, cross-cultural marriage, and the formation of two of Israel's tribes. First appears in Gen 41:45.1
AI summary: Asenath matters because the cross references present her as the mother through whom Joseph's sons become tribal fathers in Israel. Her Egyptian background also shows how the covenant family expands and survives in unexpected cultural settings without losing its future. Taken together, the material presents Asenath as an important matriarch whose sons become central branches within Israel.1
Central Figure
Asenath
Meaning: peril; misfortune
An Egyptian name, meaning “gift of the sun-god”, daughter of Potipherah, priest of On or Heliopolis, wife of Joseph (Gen.
An Egyptian name, meaning “gift of the sun-god”, daughter of Potipherah, priest of On or Heliopolis, wife of Joseph (Gen. 41:45). She was the mother of Manasseh and Ephraim (50-52; 46:20). 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.