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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,[fn] and said, “May the LORD add to me another son.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:25 - After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can go back to my own homeland.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:2 - He put the female servants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph in the rear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:7 - Next, Leah and her children came and bowed down. Last of all came Joseph and Rachel, and they too bowed down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:24 - The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2 - This is the account of Jacob’s family line. Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:3 - Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made an ornate[fn] robe for him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:5 - Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:13 - and Israel said to Joseph, “As you know, your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. Come, I am going to send you to them.” “Very well,” he replied.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:17 - “They have moved on from here,” the man answered. “I heard them say, ‘Let’s go to Dothan.’ ” So Joseph went after his brothers and found them near Dothan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:23 - So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe—the ornate robe he was wearing—

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:28 - So when the Midianite merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and sold him for twenty shekels[fn] of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:29 - When Reuben returned to the cistern and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:31 - Then they got Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a goat and dipped the robe in the blood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:33 - He recognized it and said, “It is my son’s robe! Some ferocious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:1 - Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. Potiphar, an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:2 - The LORD was with Joseph so that he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:4 - Joseph found favor in his eyes and became his attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household, and he entrusted to his care everything he owned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:5 - From the time he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned, the LORD blessed the household of the Egyptian because of Joseph. The blessing of the LORD was on everything Potiphar had, both in the house and in the field.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:6 - So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph’s care; with Joseph in charge, he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well-built and handsome,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:7 - and after a while his master’s wife took notice of Joseph and said, “Come to bed with me!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:10 - And though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be with her.

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:21 - the LORD was with him; he showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:22 - So the warden put Joseph in charge of all those held in the prison, and he was made responsible for all that was done there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:3

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:4 - The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he attended them. After they had been in custody for some time,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:6 - When Joseph came to them the next morning, he saw that they were dejected.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:8 - “We both had dreams,” they answered, “but there is no one to interpret them.” Then Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:9 - So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream. He said to him, “In my dream I saw a vine in front of me,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:12 - “This is what it means,” Joseph said to him. “The three branches are three days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:16 - When the chief baker saw that Joseph had given a favorable interpretation, he said to Joseph, “I too had a dream: On my head were three baskets of bread.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:18 - “This is what it means,” Joseph said. “The three baskets are three days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:22 - but he impaled the chief baker, just as Joseph had said to them in his interpretation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:23 - The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:14 - So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and he was quickly brought from the dungeon. When he had shaved and changed his clothes, he came before Pharaoh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:15 - Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I had a dream, and no one can interpret it. But I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:16 - “I cannot do it,” Joseph replied to Pharaoh, “but God will give Pharaoh the answer he desires.”

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:25 - Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dreams of Pharaoh are one and the same. God has revealed to 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 God has made all this known to you, there is no one so discerning and wise as you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:41 - So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I hereby put you in charge of the whole land of Egypt.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:42 - Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his finger and put it on Joseph’s finger. He dressed him in robes of fine linen and put a gold chain around his neck.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:44 - Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, but without your word no one will lift hand or foot in all Egypt.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:45 - Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-Paneah and gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On,[fn] to be his wife. And Joseph went throughout the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:46 - Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from Pharaoh’s presence and traveled throughout Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:49

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:49 - Joseph stored up huge quantities of grain, like the sand of the sea; it was so much that he stopped keeping records because it was beyond measure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:50 - Before the years of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:51

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:51 - Joseph named his firstborn Manasseh[fn] and said, “It is because God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s household.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:54

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:54 - and the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all the other lands, but in the whole land of Egypt there was food.

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