yosef · Joseph

What it means

yosef (יוֹסֵף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Joseph”.

A name borne by several Israelites, above all the son of Jacob and Rachel, sold into Egypt, who became ruler there and saved his family; his sons Ephraim and Manasseh became tribes. The name means "may he add".

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×156
• Exodus×4
• Numbers×12
• Deuteronomy×3
• Joshua×12
• Judges×3
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×6
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Psalms×4
• Ezekiel×4
• Amos×3
• Obadiah×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 30:24

  She called his name Joseph, saying, “May YHWH add to me another son.”

• Genesis 30:25

  When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, so that I may go to my own place and to my land.

• Genesis 33:2

  He put the slave women and their children first, Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph last.

• Genesis 33:7

  Leah also came near with her children, and they bowed down; and afterward Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed down.

• Genesis 35:24

  The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

• Genesis 37:2

  These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers; he was a young man with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph brought bad reports about them to their father.

• Genesis 37:3

  Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a long robe.

• Genesis 37:5

  Joseph dreamed a dream and told it to his brothers, and they hated him even more.

• Genesis 37:13

  Israel said to Joseph, “Are not your brothers pasturing the flock at Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.” He said to him, “Here I am.”

• Genesis 37:17

  The man said, “They have set out from here, for I heard them saying, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’” So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.

• Genesis 37:23

  When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his robe, the long robe that was on him;

• Genesis 37:28

  Then Midianite men, traders, passed by; and they drew and lifted Joseph out of the cistern and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver; and they brought Joseph to Egypt.

• Genesis 37:29

  Reuben returned to the cistern, and look, Joseph was not in the cistern; and he tore his clothes.

• Genesis 37:31

  They took Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a male goat and dipped the robe in the blood.

• Genesis 37:33

  He recognized it and said, “It is my son’s robe! A fierce animal has devoured him; Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!”

• Genesis 39:1

  Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an official of Pharaoh, the chief of the guard, an Egyptian man, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there.

• Genesis 39:2

  YHWH was with Joseph, and he became a successful man; and he was in the house of his lord the Egyptian.

• Genesis 39:4

  So Joseph found favor in his eyes, and he served him; and he appointed him over his house, and all that he had he put in his hand.

• Genesis 39:5

  From the time that he appointed him in his house and over all that he had, YHWH blessed the house of the Egyptian because of Joseph; and the blessing of YHWH was on all that he had, in the house and in the field.

• Genesis 39:6

  He left all that he had in the hand of Joseph, and with him there he did not concern himself with anything except the bread that he ate. Now Joseph was well-built and handsome.

• Genesis 39:7

  After these things, his lord’s wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, “Lie with me.”

• Genesis 39:10

  Though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he did not listen to her, to lie beside her, to be with her.

• Genesis 39:20

  Joseph’s lord took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined; and he was there in the prison.

• Genesis 39:21

  But YHWH was with Joseph and extended to him loyal love, and gave him favor in the eyes of the chief of the prison.

• Genesis 39:22

  The chief of the prison put into the hand of Joseph all the prisoners who were in the prison; and all that was done there, he was the one doing it.

• Genesis 40:3

  and he put them in custody in the house of the chief of the guard, in the prison, the place where Joseph was confined.

• Genesis 40:4

  The chief of the guard appointed Joseph to be with them, and he attended them; and they were some days in custody.

• Genesis 40:6

  Joseph came to them in the morning and saw them, and look, they were downcast.

• Genesis 40:8

  They said to him, “We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter for it.” Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to Elohim? Please tell them to me.”

• Genesis 40:9

  So the chief of the cupbearers told his dream to Joseph and said to him, “In my dream, look, a vine was before me,

• Genesis 40:12

  Joseph said to him, “This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days.

• Genesis 40:16

  When the chief of the bakers saw that he had interpreted well, he said to Joseph, “In my dream I too saw, and look, three baskets of white bread were on my head.

• Genesis 40:18

  Joseph answered and said, “This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days.

• Genesis 40:22

  but the chief of the bakers he hanged, just as Joseph had interpreted to them.

• Genesis 40:23

  Yet the chief of the cupbearers did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.

• Genesis 41:14

  Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they quickly brought him out of the pit. He shaved, changed his clothes, and came to Pharaoh.

• Genesis 41:15

  Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it; but I have heard it said about you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”

• Genesis 41:16

  Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, “It is not in me; Elohim will answer with peace for Pharaoh.”

• Genesis 41:17

  Then Pharaoh spoke to Joseph: “In my dream, look, I was standing on the bank of the Nile;

• Genesis 41:25

  Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dream of Pharaoh is one. What Elohim is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.

And 173 more times.