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Joseph Accused by Potiphar's Wife, by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1655.
Potiphar's wife, also known as Zuleikha (/zuːˈleɪkɑː/ zoo-LAY-kah; Hebrew: זְלִיכָה, romanized: Zəlīḵā; Arabic: زُلَيْخَا, romanized: Zulayḵā), 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zulaikha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.