Genesis 41:45

Zaphnaph-paaneah] meaning, perhaps, 'God, the Living One, has spoken.' It is a word of Egyptian origin, but not found earlier than the 9th cent. b.c. Asenath] 'One belonging to the goddess Neith, the Egyptian Minerva, goddess of wisdom.' Poti-pherah] 'One given by Ra the sun-god.' On] or Heliopolis, 'city of the sun,' was 7 m. NE. of Cairo. It was the centre of the sun (Ra) worship. A great granite obelisk of the twelfth dynasty is all that remains standing of the temple of the sun, but a similar monolith known as 'Cleopatra's needle 'was brought from Alexandria to London in 1878, and erected on the Thames embankment. It had originally been one of the obelisks at Heliopolis. It is held that these obelisks were the symbol of Ra, the fertilising sun-god. In Jeremiah 43:13; On is called Beth-shemesh, 'house of the sun.' This marriage, no doubt, exalted Joseph in the eyes of the Egyptians, but there is abundant evidence that he did not forsake the faith of his fathers on account of these new ties.