Joseph
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Joseph is a given name originating from Hebrew, recorded in the Hebrew Bible, as יוֹסֵף, Standard Hebrew Yosef, Tiberian Hebrew and Aramaic Yôsēp̄. In Arabic, including in the Qur'an, the name is spelt يوسف or Yūsuf. The name can be translated from Hebrew as signifying "The Lord will increase/add". This variant of the name is used mostly in English and French-speaking countries.
As a biblical and saints' name, Joseph has enjoyed significant and well deserved popularity in its many forms in many countries.
People referred to simply as \"Joseph\"
Religious figures
- Joseph
- * The Tribe of Joseph, named after Joseph, son of Jacob, consists of the Tribe of Ephraim and the Tribe of Manasseh.
- Saint Joseph of Nazareth is a figure from the New Testament prominent in Christianity, who was husband of Mary and thus step-father of Jesus
- Joseph of Arimathea, from the New Testament, acquired the body of Jesus from Pontius Pilate
- Joseph of Volokolamsk was a prominent Russian religious leader and political ideologist of the 15th and early 16th century, a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church
- Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church)
- Joseph is the sixth son of the patriarch Lehi in the Book of Mormon
Political leaders
- Joseph was the name of Khazar ruler of the mid 900s AD who corresponded with Hasdai ibn Shaprut
- Joseph Rabban was an eighth century Indian Jewish leader.
- A number of leaders in western history, both secular and ecclesiastical, were named Joseph:
- *Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (1678-1711)
- *Joseph I of Portugal (1750-1777)
- *Joseph I of Bulgaria, Bulgarian Exarch (1877-1915)
- *Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (March 13, 1741 – February 20, 1790)
- *Joseph II, Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople
- *Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union
- *Giuseppe Garibaldi Italian Revolutionary
- Chief Joseph was a Nez Percé Chief, in North American history
Others
- Joseph Guarneri, the only violin maker to rival Antonio Stradivari in reputation, and whose instruments are sometimes referred to as Josephs, especially in older publications, to distinguish them from instruments produced by other members of the Guarneri family.
Famous persons with the surname Joseph
- See Joseph (surname)
Placenames
- United States
- * Joseph, Utah
- * Joseph, Oregon
- Saint Joseph
Joseph and the arts
- Joseph, an opera by the 19th century French composer Étienne Méhul
Other language variants
- Giô-sép - Vietnamese
- Giuseppe & Beppe - Italian
- Ġużeppi & Żeppi & Żeppu & Peppi & Peppu - Maltese - Il-Malti
- Hohepa - Māori
- Հովսեփ (Hovsep') - Armenian
- იოსებ (Ioseb) - Georgian
- Iosephus - Latin
- Ιώσηπος (Iōsepos) - Greek
- Ιωσήφ (Iosēph) - Greek
- Иосиф (Iosif) - Russian
- Iosif - Romanian
- Joe - (Shortened) English
- Joosef - Low German
- Jooseppi - Finnish
- José - Spanish, Portuguese
- Joseba - Basque
- Josef - Czech, German, Norwegian, Swedish
- Jósef - Icelandic
- Josep - Catalan
- Josepe - Basque
- Josephus - Latin
- Јосиф (Josif) - Serbian
- Josip - Croatian, Slovene
- Jozef - Albanian, Dutch, Slovenian, Slovak
- Jozèf - Haitian Creole
- Jozefo - Esperanto
- Józef - Polish
- József - Hungarian
- Juozapas - Lithuanian
- Juozas - Lithuanian
- Осип (Osip) - Russian
- Seosamh - Irish
- Seòsaidh - Scottish Gaelic
- Xosé - Galician
- ዮሰፍ (Yosef) - Ge'ez and other Ethiopian Semitic languages
- יוֹסֵף (Yosef) - Hebrew
- Йосиф (Yosif) - Bulgarian
- Йосип (Yosyp) - Ukrainian
- يوسف (Yusuf) - Arabic, Persian, et al.
- Yusuf - Indonesian and Turkish
- 若瑟 (Mandarin pinyin - rùo-sè, Cantonese jœk6sat1) - Chinese
- ഔസേപ്പ് (Ouseph) - Malayalam
See also
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