Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

The first thing I did was to look this verse up in Hebrew. There the term has 
the meaning of “courtier”.

Not being an expert in Latin, I wonder if the meaning of “eunuchus” has 
changed, that originally it did not refer to physical mutilation as it later 
did?

Karl W. Randolph.

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> 
> Friends,
> I am forwarding from another email list, with permission, <snip> The piece 
> I hope to get some insights about is 
> Potiphar's title (or is it just a description?) and translation thereof.
> Thanks
> 
<snip>  
> > However, when I first read about Yosef's enslavement in Egypt and about 
> > Potiphar in the Vulgate, it has this to say:
> >   
> > igitur Ioseph ductus est in Aegyptum emitque eum Putiphar eunuchus 
> > Pharaonis 
> > princeps exercitus vir aegyptius.
> >
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