American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Belonging to the sun, the priest of On, city of the sun, whose daughter Asenath was the wife of Joseph, Gen 41:45 . The name is found, in various forms, on ancient Egyptian monuments.\par
Dictionary of the Bible
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POTIPHERA.—Gen 41:45; Gen 41:50; Gen 46:20. The consonants in the Hebrew are an almost exact transcript of the Egyp. Peteprç, ‘Given by the Sun-god,’ a late name found from the 22nd Dyn. onwards; only the letter w (represented by Eng. o) is puzzling. Potiphera, father of Joseph’s wife Asenath (wh. see), was priest of On, i.e. probably high priest of Rç, the Sun-god, in On. He would thus be the head of the most learned sacerdotal college in the country, and of high rank.
F. Ll. Griffith.