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Potiphar
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Potiphar in the Bible Dictionary
- (An officer of Pharaoh. The LXX has “eunuch” even though he had a wife)
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Joseph’s master
Gen 37:36; 39:1
36 And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard.
Genesis 37:361 And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.
Genesis 39:1
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.