From Nave’s Topical Bible
Zaphnath-paaneah
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- A name given to Joseph by PharaohGenesis 41:45
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- Genesis 41:45
Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-paneah, and he gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, to be his wife. And Joseph took charge of all the land of Egypt.
Commentary on Genesis 41:452 voices
“Zaphnath-paaneah--variously interpreted, ‘revealer of secrets’; ‘saviour of the land’; and from the hieroglyphics, ‘a wise man fleeing from pollution’--that is, adultery. gave him to wife Asenath, the daughter of--His naturalization was completed by this alliance with a family of high distinction.”
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown · Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871Reformed
“And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah,.... Which, according to the paraphrase of Onkelos, signifies one to whom hidden things are revealed; or, as Jonathan, a revealer of secrets; and so most of the Jewish writers explain it; and which seems to be given him from his interpreting Pharaoh's dreams, and revealing what was hereafter to come to pass.”
John Gill · Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed