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Meaning, origin and etymology of the name Joseph


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The name Joseph is one of the most popular names in the Bible. The most famous one is Jacob's twelfth child and eleventh son; Rachel's first and brother of Benjamin.
Other Josephs are: The father of one of the spies that Moses sent out to the Promised Land (Num 13:7); A prophesying musician in the tabernacle service (1 Chr 25:2); One among the men who divorce their foreign wives in the purge of Ezra (Ezr 10:42); A returning priest (Neh 12:14); Three semi-ancestors of Christ, including his semi-father (Luke 3:23, 24, 30), and one of His brothers (Mat 13:55); A man of Arimathea who puts the body of Jesus in his new tomb (Luke 23:50); The rejected nominee to replace Judas (Acts 1:23).

The name Joseph comes from the verb yasap (yasap 876) meaning to add, increase, do again. Joseph would mean increaser, or doubler. Even the fulfillment of his name is dual: Benjamin becomes Joseph's younger brother, and Joseph himself becomes father of two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh (see Ezk 47:13).

NOBSE reads two meanings: (1) May He (YHWH) Add; (2) Increaser.



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