פּוֹטִי פֶ֫רַע
Poti-pherah
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H6319 appears — 3 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 3 verses
- Genesis 41:45 פּ֥וֹטִי פֶ֛רַע n Proper n Proper Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 41:50 פּ֥וֹטִי פֶ֖רַע n Proper n Proper To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.
- Genesis 46:20 פּ֥וֹטִי פֶ֖רַע n Proper n Proper To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.
About this entry
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פוטי פרע — transliterated Pôwṭîy Pheraʻ — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Poti-pherah.” A scarce word — 3 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Genesis. Debuting at Genesis 41:45, it then recurs through the corpus. See 3-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6319 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,040
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,040 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 3 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 3 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 3 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Potipherah 3×
- American Standard Version†: Poti-phera 3×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Potiphera 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Potiphera 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6319 across 3† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6319 across 3† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6319 across 3† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6319 across 6† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 0 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
פוטי פרע I [m.] leader (?)
פוטי פרע II [m.] long hair of head, locks
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. n.pr.m. priest of On, Joseph’s father-in-law (Egyptian Pʾ-diʾ-pʾ-Rʿ, i.e. he whom the Ra gave, v. SetheDe aleph prosthetico in ling. aeg. (1892), 31; Dr in HastingsDB);—Gn 41:45, 50 (E), 46:20 (P), Πετεφρης, A Πετρεφης.
I. n.[m.] leader (?);—pl. abs. בִּפְרֹעַ פְּרָעוֹת Ju 5:2 for the leading of the leaders (𝔊A Be Bu al., but uncertain; 𝔊B Symm, cf. WeIsr. u. Jüd. Gesch. (2), 97; Heid. (2), 123 al., for the loosing of locks [ii. פֶּרַע], in vow of war; on these and other views v. especially GFMad loc.; conj. also by LambertRÉJ xxiv. 140 GrimmeZMG 1 (1896), 572 CheJQ, July 1899, 561 [reading ברכו]); cstr. מֵרֹאשׁ פַּרְעוֹת אוֹיֵב Dt 32:42 from the head of leaders of the foe 𝔊 Di Steuern al.; Kn Ke Dr al. from the long-haired heads of the foe.
II. n.[m.] long hair of head, locks;—פ׳ abs. Ez 44:20; cstr. פ׳ שְׂעַר רֹאשׁוֹ Nu 6:5 (P).—Ju 5:2 Dt 32:42, v. i. פֶּרַע.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: of Egyptian derivation
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms H6319 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| פּ֥וֹטִי | Noun, Proper | Genesis 41:45 | 3 |
| פֶ֖רַע | Noun, Proper | Genesis 41:50 | 2 |
| פֶ֛רַע | Noun, Proper | Genesis 41:45 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Poti-pherah). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
A priest of On, whose daughter Asenath became Joseph's wife (Gen. 41:45).
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
that scatters abroad, or demolishes, the fat
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
