Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Gen. 39:1 Potiphar's title
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 23:05:58 -0500
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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