Bible Person
Male · 3 cross references
Poti-pherah is the Egyptian priest of On and the father of Asenath, Joseph's wife. He belongs to the elite Egyptian setting into which Joseph is elevated during his years of power. First appears in Gen 41:45.1
AI summary: Poti-pherah matters because the cross references place him at the family threshold between Joseph's Hebrew story and Egypt's ruling institutions. Through Asenath and her sons, his house becomes part of the ancestry of Ephraim and Manasseh, showing how God's providence works through an unexpected international setting. Taken together, the material presents Poti-pherah as an Egyptian priest whose family is drawn into the story of Israel's future tribes.1
Central Figure
Poti-pherah
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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.