Potiphar's wife
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For the film, see Potiphar's Wife (1931 film).
"Zuleikha" redirects here. For other uses, see Zuleikha (disambiguation).
Potiphar's wife is a figure in the Hebrew Bible and the Quran. She was the wife of Potiphar, the captain of Pharaoh's guard in the time of Jacob and his twelve sons. According to the Book of Genesis, she falsely accused Joseph of attempted rape after he rejected her sexual advances, resulting in his imprisonment.[1]
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In Genesis she is given no name, but in later medieval Jewish sources and Islamic tradition, she is identified as Zuleikha (/zuːˈleɪkɑː/ zoo-LAY-kah; Hebrew: זוליכה; Arabic: زُلَيْخَا, romanized: zulayḵā).[2] The story of Yusuf and Zulaikha is a popular one in Islamic literature.