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Pharaoh (of Joseph)

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A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length.

  • Joseph imprisoned · 1717 BC
  • 7 years of plenty · 1714 BC

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The Pharaoh of Joseph’s days (Gen. 41) was probably Apopi, or Apopis, the last of the Hyksos kings. To the old native Egyptians, who were an African race, shepherds were “an abomination;” but to the Hyksos kings these Asiatic shepherds who now appeared with Jacob at their head were congenial, and being akin to their own race, had a warm welcome (Gen. 47:5, 6). Some argue that Joseph came to Egypt in the reign of Thothmes III., long after the expulsion of the Hyksos, and that his influence is to be seen in the rise and progress of the religious revolution in the direction of monotheism which characterized the middle of the Eighteenth Dynasty. The wife of Amenophis III., of that dynasty, was a Semite. Is this singular fact to be explained from the presence of some of Joseph’s kindred at the Egyptian court? Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee: the land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell” (Gen. 47:5, 6).

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 63 verses

Genesis
39:1, 40:2, 40:13, 40:14, 40:17, 40:19, 41:1, 41:4, 41:7, 41:8, 41:9, 41:10, 41:14, 41:15, 41:16, 41:17, 41:25, 41:28, 41:32, 41:33, 41:34, 41:35, 41:37, 41:38, 41:39, 41:41, 41:42, 41:44, 41:45, 41:46, 41:55, 42:15, 42:16, 44:18, 45:2, 45:8, 45:16, 45:17, 45:21, 46:5, 46:31, 46:33, 47:1, 47:2, 47:3, 47:4, 47:5, 47:7, 47:8, 47:9, 47:10, 47:11, 47:19, 47:20, 47:22, 47:23, 47:24, 47:26, 50:4, 50:6, 50:7
Acts
7:10, 7:13

The family, dates and events on this page come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is a work in progress, and its dates follow one reconstruction of biblical chronology among several. The dictionary article above is separately in the public domain.