Longforest  +  509932 Mon, 05 May 08 05:21 PM That Hebew slave you bought to us came to me to make sport of me... What does the red part "to make sport of me" mean in this sentence? Thanks!     Longforest Joined on Sat, Jun 10 2006 Montain of Hope, Earth Junior Member 74 Master Yourself, Help Others.

	khoff  +  509943 Mon, 05 May 08 05:42 PM Usually "make sport of" would mean to mock or to make fun of.  In the scene you are quoting, however, I believe Potiphar's wife is (falsely) accusing Joseph of rape. khoff Joined on Sun, Mar 6 2005 Senior Member 3,276 Native speaker of American English (but not a grammar expert)

	Grammar Geek  +  510027 Mon, 05 May 08 08:13 PM khoff, you may enjoy this: When my church put on the Joseph story as a Sunday School pageant, Potiphar's wife (who I believe is unnamed in the Bible) was named Lucille, for the sole purpose of allowing the boy who played Potiphar to stride briskly on stage and say "Oh Luuuucceee! I'm home!" (He took a lot of coaching to deliver the line just right, because of course he'd never heard it, but he did it just perfectly, and brought the house down.)   Grammar Geek Joined on Tue, Jan 10 2006 Veteran Member 19,683 Barbara, who answers in American English. My housekeeping skills attest to the truth of the second law of thermodynamics: Left to themselves, things get more and more random!

	khoff  +  510143 Tue, 06 May 08 02:14 AM That's pretty funny -- though, when you think about it, a pretty weird mixing of genres.   It certainly never occurred to me to think of Potiphar and his wife as Lucy and Ricky!  Did they make her a redhead? khoff

	Grammar Geek  +  510156 Tue, 06 May 08 02:53 AM I don't think so - it was just for the purposes of that one line. There was more time spend on the whole 7 skinny cows eating the 7 fat cows, etc. and forgiving his faithless brothers. Grammar Geek