How to Pronounce Asenath
ASS-eh-nath
Asenath is pronounced ASS-eh-nath (ˈæsənæθ): three syllables, stress on the first. Also heard: AS-uh-nath.
What does Asenath mean?
Asenath means “peril; misfortune”.
Hitchcock’s Bible Names (1869), public domain.
Who was Asenath?
Asenath was the wife Pharaoh gave to Joseph, the daughter of Potipherah priest of On (Genesis 41:45). In the land of Egypt she bare Joseph two sons before the years of famine came (Genesis 41:50), named in Genesis 46:20 as Manasseh and Ephraim.
Also pronounced
AS-uh-nath
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