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Lexicon :: Strong's H3130 - yôsēp̄

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יוֹסֵף
Transliteration
yôsēp̄
Pronunciation
yo-safe'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Future of יָסַף (H3254)
Strong’s Definitions

יוֹסֵף Yôwçêph, yo-safe'; future of H3254; let him add (or perhaps simply active participle adding); Joseph, the name of seven Israelites:—Joseph. Compare H3084.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 213x

The KJV translates Strong's H3130 in the following manner: Joseph (213x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 213x
The KJV translates Strong's H3130 in the following manner: Joseph (213x).

  1. Joseph = "Jehovah has added"

    1. the eldest son of Jacob by Rachel

    2. father of Igal, who represented the tribe of Issachar among the spies

    3. a son of Asaph

    4. a man who took a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

    5. a priest of the family of Shebaniah in the time of Nehemiah

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יוֹסֵף Yôwçêph, yo-safe'; future of H3254; let him add (or perhaps simply active participle adding); Joseph, the name of seven Israelites:—Joseph. Compare H3084.
STRONGS H3130: Abbreviations
יוֺסֵף 212 and יְהוֺסֵף (†Psalm 81:6 [Psalm 81:5] see Ges§ 53. 3, R. 7), proper name, masculine (he adds, increases, see יוספיה below; — on proper name, of a location in Palestine Yšap’ara (Egyptian form, = אליוסף) see MeyZAW vi, 8 WMMAisen u. Europa 162) —
1. elder son of Jacob and Rachel;
a. as an individual Genesis 30:24 (name explained Genesis 30:23 (E) from אָסַף = take away, but Genesis 30:24 (J) from יָסַף add) + 155 times. Genesis, chiefly in narrative of J E, also poem Genesis 49:22, Genesis 49:26 and, dependent on this, 1 Chronicles 5:1, 1 Chronicles 5:2; P only Genesis 35:24; Genesis 37:2a; Genesis 41:46 (twice in verse); Genesis 46:19, Genesis 46:20, Genesis 46:27; Genesis 47:5, Genesis 47:7, Genesis 47:11; Genesis 48:3; also Exodus 1:5; Exodus 1:6) (P), Exodus 1:8; Exodus 13:19; Joshua 24:32 (all E), 1 Chronicles 2:2; Psalm 105:17.
†b. as founder of a tribal division מַטֵּה יו׳ ( = Manasseh) Numbers 13:11; usually בְּנֵייֿו׳ Numbers 1:32 (= Ephraim), commonly = Ephraim and Manasseh Numbers 1:10; Numbers 26:28, Numbers 26:37; Numbers 34:23; Joshua 14:4; Joshua 16:1, Joshua 16:4; Joshua 17:14, Joshua 17:16; Joshua 18:11, compare Joshua 24:32; 1 Chronicles 7:29, but also of east Jordan Israel (where half Manaeseh settled) Numbers 36:1 = מַטֵּה בני יו׳, Numbers 36:5; compare חֲצִי שֵׁבֶט מנשׂה בֶּןיֿוֺסֵף Numbers 32:33 — Numbers 36:12, and Joshua 17:1, Joshua 17:2; בֵּית יו׳ (Manasseh and Ephraim) Joshua 17:17 (so originally Joshua 17:14 according to Di), Joshua 18:5; Judges 1:22, Judges 1:23, Judges 1:35 occupying the great central region of Palestine; 2 Samuel 19:21 [2 Samuel 19:20]; 1 Kings 11:28; ultimately =
c. the northern kingdom Amos 5:6; Zechariah 10:6 (|| בֵּית יְהוּדָה); so יוֺסֵף alone Amos 5:15; Amos 6:6; Deuteronomy 27:12; Deuteronomy 33:13, Deuteronomy 33:16; Obadiah 18 (|| יעקב בית), Ezekiel 37:16, Ezekiel 37:19 ; Ezekiel 47:13; Ezekiel 48:32; בְּנֵי יַעֲקֹב ויוסף Psalm 77:16 [Psalm 77:15]; אֹהֶל יוֺסֵף Psalm 78:67 (|| שֵׁבֶט אֶפְרַיִם).
d. = entire nation Psalm 80:2 [Psalm 80:1] (|| ישׂראל); so יְהוֺסֵף Psalm 81:6 [Psalm 81:5] (|| id.)
† 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.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

30:23; 30:24; 30:24; 35:24; 37:2; 41:46; 46:19; 46:20; 46:27; 47:5; 47:7; 47:11; 48:3; 49:22; 49:26

Exodus

1:5; 1:6; 1:8; 13:19

Numbers

1:10; 1:32; 13:7; 13:11; 26:28; 26:37; 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; 17:14; 17:16; 17:17; 18:5; 18:11; 24:32; 24:32

Judges

1:22; 1:23; 1:25

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; 81:5; 81:5; 105:17

Ezekiel

37:16; 37:19; 47:13; 48:32

Amos

5:6; 5:15; 6:6

Obadiah

1:18

Zechariah

10:6

H3130

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Strong's Number H3130 matches the Hebrew יוֹסֵף (yôsēp̄),
which occurs 213 times in 193 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 4 (Gen 30:24–Gen 41:54)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:24 - She named him Joseph (may He add) and said, “May the LORD add to me another son.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:25 -

Now when Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go back to my own place and to my own country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:2 - He put the maids and their children in front, Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph last of all.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:7 - Leah also approached with her children, and they bowed down. Afterward Joseph and Rachel approached, and they bowed down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:24 - and the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2 - These are the generations of Jacob.

Joseph, when he was seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers [Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher]; the boy was with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s [[fn]secondary] wives; and Joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:3 - Now Israel (Jacob) loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a [distinctive] [fn]multicolored tunic.

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Now Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they [fn]hated him even more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:13 - Israel (Jacob) said to Joseph, “Are not your brothers pasturing [the flock] at Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.” And he said, “Here I am [ready to obey you].”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:17 - Then the man said, “[They were here, but] they have moved on from this place. I heard them say, ‘Let us go to [fn]Dothan.’” So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:23 - Now when Joseph reached his brothers, they stripped him of his tunic, the [distinctive] [fn]multicolored tunic which he was wearing;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:28 - Then as the [fn]Midianite [and Ishmaelite] traders were passing by, the brothers pulled Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and they sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. And so they took Joseph [as a captive] into Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:29 -

Now Reuben [unaware of what had happened] returned to the pit, and [to his great alarm found that] Joseph was not in the pit; so he tore his clothes [in deep sorrow].

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:31 - Then they took Joseph’s tunic, slaughtered a male goat and dipped the tunic in the blood;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:33 - He recognized it and said, “It is my son’s tunic. A wild animal has devoured him; Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:1 -

Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an Egyptian officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the [royal] guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites, who had taken him down there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:2 - The LORD was with Joseph, and he [even though a slave] became a successful and prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master, the Egyptian.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:4 - So Joseph pleased Potiphar and found favor in his sight and he served him as his personal servant. He made Joseph overseer over his house, and he put all that he owned in Joseph’s charge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:5 - It happened that from the time that he made Joseph overseer in his house and [put him in charge] over all that he owned, that the LORD blessed the Egyptian’s house because of Joseph; so the LORD’S blessing was on everything that Potiphar owned, in the house and in the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:6 - So Potiphar left all that he owned in Joseph’s charge; and with Joseph there he did not [need to] [fn]pay attention to anything except the food he ate.

Now Joseph was handsome and attractive in form and appearance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:7 - Then after a time his master’s wife [fn]looked at Joseph with desire, and she said, “Lie with me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:10 - And so it was that she spoke to Joseph [persistently] day after day, but he did not listen to her [plea] to lie beside her or be with her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:20 - So Joseph’s master took him and put him in the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were confined; so he was there in the prison.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:21 - But the LORD was with Joseph and extended lovingkindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the warden.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:22 - The warden committed to Joseph’s care (management) all the prisoners who were in the prison; so that whatever was done there, he was [fn]in charge of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:3 - He put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the guard, in the same prison where Joseph was confined.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:4 - The captain of the guard put Joseph in charge of them, and he served them; and they continued to be in custody for some time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:6 - When Joseph came to them in the morning and looked at them, [he saw that] they were sad and depressed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:8 - And they said to him, “We have [each] dreamed [distinct] dreams and there is no one to interpret them.” So Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Please tell me [your dreams].”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:9 -

So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, “In my dream there was a grapevine in front of me;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:12 - Then Joseph said to him, “This is the interpretation of it: the three branches represent three days;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:16 -

When the chief baker saw that the interpretation [of the dream] was good, he said to Joseph, “I also dreamed, and [in my dream] there were three cake baskets on my head;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:18 - Joseph answered, “This is the interpretation of it: the three baskets represent three days;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:22 - but Pharaoh hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had interpreted [the meaning of the dreams] to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:23 - Yet [even after all that] the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot [all about] him.

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Then Pharaoh sent and called for Joseph, and they hurriedly brought him out of the dungeon; and when Joseph shaved himself and changed his clothes [making himself presentable], he came to Pharaoh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:15 - Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it; and I have heard it said about you that you can understand a dream and interpret it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:16 - Joseph answered Pharaoh, “It is not in me [to interpret the dream]; God [not I] will give Pharaoh a [fn]favorable answer [through me].”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:17 - So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “In my dream, I was standing on the bank of the Nile;

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Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The [two] dreams are one [and the same and have one interpretation]; God has shown Pharaoh what He is about to do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:39

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:39 - Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since [your] God has shown you all this, there is no one as discerning and clear-headed and wise as you are.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:41 - Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “See, I have set you [in charge] over all the land of Egypt.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:42

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:42 - Then Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph’s hand, and dressed him in [official] vestments of fine linen and put a gold chain around his neck.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:44

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:44 - Moreover, Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Though I am Pharaoh, yet without your permission shall no man raise his hand [to do anything] or set his foot [to go anywhere] in all the land of Egypt [all classes of people shall submit to your authority].”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:45

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:45 - Then Pharaoh named Joseph [fn]Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On (Heliopolis in Egypt), as his wife. And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt [to inspect and govern it].

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:46 -

Now Joseph [had been in Egypt thirteen years and] was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. Joseph departed from the presence of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt [performing his duties].

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:49

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:49 - Thus Joseph gathered and stored up grain in great abundance like the sand of the sea, until he stopped counting it, for it could not be measured.

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Now two sons were born to Joseph before the years of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:51

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:51 - Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh (causing to forget), for he said, “God has made me forget all my trouble and hardship and all [the sorrow of the loss of] my father’s household.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:54

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:54 - the seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said [they would]; the famine was in all the [surrounding] lands, but in the land of Egypt there was bread (food).

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2. LOAD PAGE 2 Gen 41:55–Gen 47:12

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