Pharaoh
historical figure · 9 works · 16 mentions · 17 anchored passages
فرعون · Firʻawn · a certain tyrant Pharaoh · king of the Egyptians · the king of Egypt · the slayer of newborns
in the texts
Letters
Egyptian king to whom Moses was appointed as a god.
"I have given you as a god to Pharaoh.
The Scripture knows of chariots having warriors of the third rank as riders, because the rest of the chariots had two riders, the driver and the man-at-arms;
and assuredly, even if the penalties do not lay hold of him at once, as in the case of Pharaoh, yet at some later time they will bring him a heavy and painful retribution.
The Rights of War and Peace
Ruler under whom Joseph administered Egypt's monopoly
a noble instance of which we find in the history of Joseph, who governed Egypt under the auspices of Pharaoh.
Thus Joseph is said to have sworn by the life of Pharaoh, according to the received custom of the Egyptians.
Thus Pharaoh purchased all the land in Egypt, and others have admitted strangers into their territories allowing them to hold lands upon such conditions.
Adversus Marcionem
The biblical Egyptian king who ordered the killing of Hebrew infants, invoked as a comparison for Marcion's god's opposition to procreation.
There will be no fiercer hardness than Pharaoh's, the slayer of newborns.
He hardened Pharaoh's heart:
but by which, as good, he so loves the little ones that in Egypt he did good to the midwives, who protected the Hebrew births endangered by the edict of Pharaoh.
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
The Egyptian king of Exodus, adduced only through the phrase about the hardening of his heart.
“Why has the sinner angered God, exalted be He, and his heart has spoken that He will not take vengeance” (3).
[21] 3) The Book of Exodus 14:
And when these meanings are traced upon the tablet of the common sense, they are apprehended as embodied.
Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab
The Qurʼānic archetype of the unbeliever, invoked as the extreme measure by which the addressee's followers are said to condemn those who refuse to anathematise.
For God's sake, spare us the talk of the innovation of Thursday and the eating of grains, and set to work in earnest on the mention of innovations we used to reckon a very head of error, which have now become the pure Sunnah itself and the foundation of the profession of God's oneness — and whoever does not know them is an unbeliever or an ass, and whoever does not anathematise is more of an unbel …
Barlaam and Josaphat
The Egyptian ruler who enslaved the Israelites and was destroyed pursuing them through the Red Sea.
and when they had been enslaved to the Egyptian nation and to a certain tyrant Pharaoh, he led them out from thence with signs and dreadful and extraordinary wonders through Moses and Aaron, holy men glorified with the grace of prophecy — through whom he both chastised the Egyptians worthily of their wickedness, and led the Israelites (for so that people, the descendants of Abraham, was called) th …
Ad Nationes
Egyptian king in the Joseph narrative.
The youngest among the rest of the brothers, but loftier in genius, sold into Egypt by those same brothers through envy, he served in the household of the king of the Egyptians, Pharaoh.
Adversus Judaeos
Egyptian ruler whose dominion is cited as limited to Egypt, contrasted with Christ's universal kingdom.
if Pharaoh ruled the Egyptians, or whoever succeeded him in his hereditary kingdom, there only did he obtain the dominion of his kingdom;
De Anima
Egyptian ruler deceived by the illusion of magicians' wands turning into dragons.
Bodies, in short, the dragons of the magical wands seemed to Pharaoh and the Egyptians.