Zaphnathpaaneah: Which in Coptic signifies a revealer of secrets, or, the man to whom secrets are revealed. Jerome says this name signified in Egyptian, Savatorem mundi:, "the Saviour of the world;" and Psotem:-phaneh:, in Coptic, is certainly "salvation of the world," from CΩ:T, for σωτηρια: strong:G4991, salvation, em:, the sign of the genitive case, and ΦΕΝΕΗ:, world. If this interpretation be correct, Pharaoh must have meant Egypt by the world, or which Joseph might be justly termed the Saviour. We know that the Romans called their empire Universis Orbis-Orbis Terrarum:, "all the world:" the Chinese say the same of their empire at the present day, and the phrase is used in the East: Nadir Shah is described on his coins as "Conqueror of the World," i.e., Persia. See the same phraseology applied to Syria, Palestine, etc. Luke 2:1; Acts 11:28
priest of: or, prince, Genesis 14:18; Exodus 2:16 *marg. 2 Samuel 8:18, 2 Samuel 20:26 *Heb:
On: Genesis 46:20; Ezekiel 30:17, Aven