יוֹסֵףYôwçêph
proper name, masculine: he adds, increases, Yšap±ara
Pronunciation: yo-safe' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3130
Meanings
1. elder son of Jacob and Rachel
a. take away (Genesis 30:24; Genesis 30:23; Genesis 49:22)
d. id. (Psalms 80:2; Psalms 81:6)
2. a man of Issachar (Numbers 13:7)
3. a son of Asaph (1 Chronicles 25:2; 1 Chronicles 25:9)
4. one of those who took strange wives (Ezra 10:42)
5. a priest (Nehemiah 12:14)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 213 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 30:24 And she named him Joseph, for she said, “May the Lord add yet another son to my family.”
- Genesis 30:25 Soon after Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Please release me so I can go home to my own country.
- Genesis 33:2 He put the servant wives and their children at the front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.
- Genesis 33:7 Next came Leah with her children, and they bowed before him. Finally, Joseph and Rachel came forward and bowed before him.
- Genesis 35:24 The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
- Genesis 37:2 This is the account of Jacob and his family. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he often tended his father’s flocks. He worked for his half brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah. But Joseph reported to his father some of the bad things his brothers were doing.
See every passage
- Genesis 30:24, 30:25, 33:2, 33:7, 35:24, 37:2, 37:3, 37:5, 37:13, 37:17, 37:23, 37:28, 37:29, 37:31, 37:33, 39:1, 39:2, 39:4, 39:5, 39:6, 39:7, 39:10, 39:20, 39:21, 39:22, 40:3, 40:4, 40:6, 40:8, 40:9, 40:12, 40:16, 40:18, 40:22, 40:23, 41:14, 41:15, 41:16, 41:17, 41:25, 41:39, 41:41, 41:42, 41:44, 41:45, 41:46, 41:49, 41:50, 41:51, 41:54, 41:55, 41:56, 41:57, 42:3, 42:4, 42:6, 42:7, 42:8, 42:9, 42:14, 42:18, 42:23, 42:25, 42:36, 43:15, 43:16, 43:17, 43:18, 43:19, 43:24, 43:25, 43:26, 43:30, 44:2, 44:4, 44:14, 44:15, 45:1, 45:3, 45:4, 45:9, 45:16, 45:17, 45:21, 45:26, 45:27, 45:28, 46:4, 46:19, 46:20, 46:27, 46:28, 46:29, 46:30, 46:31, 47:1, 47:5, 47:7, 47:11, 47:12, 47:14, 47:15, 47:16, 47:17, 47:20, 47:23, 47:26, 47:29, 48:1, 48:2, 48:3, 48:8, 48:9, 48:11, 48:12, 48:13, 48:15, 48:17, 48:18, 48:21, 49:22, 49:26, 50:1, 50:2, 50:4, 50:7, 50:8, 50:14, 50:15, 50:16, 50:17, 50:19, 50:22, 50:23, 50:24, 50:25, 50:26
- Exodus 1:5, 1:6, 1:8, 13:19
- Numbers 1:10, 1:32, 13:7, 13:11, 26:28, 26:37, 27:1, 32:33, 34:23, 36:1, 36:5, 36:12
- Deuteronomy 27:12, 33:13, 33:16
- Joshua 14:4, 16:1, 16:4, 17:1, 17:2, 17:14, 17:16, 17:17, 18:5, 18:11, 24:32
- Judges 1:22, 1:23, 1:35
- 2 Samuel 19:20
- 1 Kings 11:28
- 1 Chronicles 2:2, 5:1, 5:2, 7:29, 25:2, 25:9
- Ezra 10:42
- Nehemiah 12:14
- Psalms 77:15, 78:67, 80:1, 105:17
- Ezekiel 37:16, 37:19, 47:13, 48:32
- Amos 5:6, 5:15, 6:6
- Obadiah 1:18
- Zechariah 10:6
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).