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the unaltered name of Osiris in the character above-stated, 
(Osiris-Sapi)* and we may as well conceive Moses honoured 
by such a title in Egypt as Barnabas saluted Zeus, or Paul 
Hermes, by the Lycaonians. 
Tent-sepb is an Egyptian female name, occurring in the 
time of Sheshank I.f 
It must be noticed that the two names Potiphar and Poti- 
pherah are not (as is commonly thought) identical, for while 
the latter is founded on the name of the great solar god Pa, 
especially worshipped at On [An) the name Potiphar would 
rather signify “ the gift of Horus ” (Pet-pa-Har) . 
The Prison. 
The curious term inbn (Gen. xxxix. 20) has received 
much attention. { Dr. Ebers has shown § that it may be 
explained as an Egyptian expression, hita sohar , the house of 
the citadel, at Memphis, where the chief of the guard, or 
commandant, would reside. 
: slier, citadelle, in his 
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hieroglyphic vocabulary || ; and the cognate words in Hebrew 
(which may be found in Gesenius) seem to skow that the root 
"DD, enclose, explains it best. Pierret has referred to the 
same etymology the name Sokar applied by the Egyptians to 
Osiris when enclosed in his mummy-case.^f 
Potiphar’ s Office. 
On the office borne by Potiphar, as chief of the guard, it is 
well to read an article by Lieblein, on Egyptian titles of this 
kind, from the time of Khafra downwards.** 
It seems significant that Potiphar is twice noted as “an 
Egyptian " in Egypt, which would be very natural if the 
sovereign, and many of the court and citizens, were foreign 
conquerors. 
The Dreams. 
The peculiarly Egyptian character of the dreams which 
Joseph interpreted has been so amply shown that we need not 
linger here. 
With regard to the pressing of the grapes into Pharaoh's 
* Ancessi, Le Bedempteur , &c., 122. f Pierret, Voc. Hierog., 691. 
X Malan. Phil, or Truth , 184. § AEg., &c., 318. 
|| 552. *]]' Die. d’Arch. Eg., 517. 
Zeitschr., 1874, 39 ; but see Harkavy, ibid. 1869 48. 
Pierret gives the word ] ® ■ 
