Pharaoh

פַּרְעֹהΦαραώ

Pharaoh, the Egyptian ruler who elevated Joseph to a position of authority and welcomed his family to Egypt during a severe famine.

IllustrationGenesis 41Pharaoh transfers his signet ring to Joseph and gives him fine linen and a gold chain as Joseph is elevated over Egypt.

verses: 70
first named: Genesis 37:36
last named: Acts 7:13
period: the Patriarchs
tribe: Egypt

Description

Who was Pharaoh?

In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

This Pharaoh was the Egyptian ruler during the time of Joseph, the son of Israel (or 'Jacob') (Genesis 37-50). Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers and eventually served in the household of Potiphar, one of Pharaoh's officials. After being falsely accused and imprisoned, Joseph interpreted the dreams of Pharaoh's cupbearer and baker. When Pharaoh had troubling dreams, the cupbearer remembered Joseph's ability, and Joseph was brought before Pharaoh to interpret the dreams.

Joseph interpreted Pharaoh's dreams as a warning of seven years of plenty followed by seven years of severe famine. Impressed by Joseph's wisdom, Pharaoh appointed him as second-in-command over Egypt to prepare for the famine. During the famine, Joseph's brothers came to Egypt to buy grain, and after a series of tests, Joseph revealed his identity to them. Pharaoh invited Joseph's family to settle in the land of Goshen and provided for their needs.

This Pharaoh is depicted as a ruler who recognized and rewarded wisdom, and who showed kindness to Joseph and his family. The Bible does not provide the specific name or historical identity of this Pharaoh, as the term "Pharaoh" was used as a title for Egyptian kings. Some scholars suggest that this Pharaoh may have been from the Hyksos dynasty, a Semitic people who ruled Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period.

Relations

Direct connections

Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

The 10 best-attested of 11 are drawn. All 11 are listed below.

Stands in the same events as

Joseph28 events
Israel7 events
Egypt6 events
Egyptians3 events
Seven Cows’ dream2 events
Land2 events
Giving1 event
Person1 event
Food1 event
Tree1 event
Returning1 event
Settlement1 event

and 4 more, ordered by how many events they share.

Places

Where this happens

The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.

the PatriarchsAll 3 places the claims about Pharaoh reach

The pattern

Where Pharaoh is named

Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.

Pharaoh is named in 70 verses, and the name is written 90 times in them — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 64 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

Read it

Where to read it

Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 70, across 2 books. The name is written 90 times in them.

Genesis68 verses
37:36 39:1 40:2 40:7 40:11 40:13 40:14 40:17 40:19 40:20 40:21 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 47:14 47:19 47:20 47:22 47:23 47:24 47:25 47:26 50:4 50:6 50:7
Acts2 verses
7:10 7:13

Onward

Where this page goes

Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

ElsewhereDavidAnointed king of Israel, ancestor of Jesus Christ ElsewhereBenjaminYoungest son of Jacob and Rachel ElsewhereIsraelPatriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes

Where they appear

Chapter by chapter

Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

Sources

What this rests on

STEPBible TIPNR Pharaoh@Gen.37.36-Act=H6547H