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ASENATH

(Heb. ʾāsĕnaṯ) (also ASENETH)

The Egyptian daughter of Potiphera, priest of On (Heliopolis). Given to Joseph as a wife by Pharaoh as part of his reward for interpreting Pharaoh’s dream (Gen. 41:45), Asenath was also the mother of Manasseh and Ephraim (Gen. 41:50-52; 46:20). The name, which means “she belongs to Neith (an Egyptian goddess),” was common during the Middle Kingdom and First Intermediate period. An apocryphal Jewish story, written in Greek around the turn of the Common Era, Joseph and Aseneth explains how the patriarch Joseph could marry the daughter of an Egyptian priest. In the story, Asenath converts to the religion of Israel before she marries Joseph and becomes the prototype for all future proselytes of Judaism.

Nancy L. deClaissé-Walford






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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