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Joseph ( / ˈdʒoʊzəf, - səf /; Hebrew: יוֹסֵף, romanized : Yōsēp̄, lit. 'He shall add') [ 2][ a] is an important Hebrew figure in the Bible's Book of Genesis and in the Quran. He was the first of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's twelfth named child and eleventh son). He is the founder of the Tribe of Joseph among the ...
The book of Genesis records the descendants of Adam and Eve. The enumerated genealogy in chapters 4, 5, and 11, reports the lineal male descent to Abraham, including the age at which each patriarch fathered his named son and the number of years he lived thereafter. The genealogy for Cain is given in chapter 4, and the genealogy for Seth is in ...
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef [ 1] ( יוֹסֵף ). "Joseph" is used, [ 2] along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic countries. In Portuguese and Spanish, the name is "José".
The brothers of Jesus or the adelphoi ( Greek: ἀδελφοί, translit. adelphoí, lit. "of the same womb") [ 1][ Notes 1] are named in the New Testament as James, Joses (a form of Joseph), Simon, Jude, [ 2] and unnamed sisters are mentioned in Mark and Matthew. [ 3] They may have been: (1) the sons of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and Joseph ...
Joseph is venerated as Saint Joseph in the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Church, Anglicanism and Lutheranism. [ 3][ 4] In Catholic traditions, Joseph is regarded as the patron saint of workers and is associated with various feast days. The month of March is dedicated to Saint Joseph.
The name Ephraim can therefore be translated as "I will be fruitful", with the prefix of aleph (א) indicating the first person, singular, future tense. [10] In the biblical account, Joseph's other son is Manasseh. Joseph himself is one of the two children of Rachel and Jacob, the other being Benjamin.
Benjamin ( Hebrew: בִּנְיָמִין Bīnyāmīn; "Son of (the) right") [ 2] was the last of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (i.e., Jacob's thirteenth child and twelfth and youngest son) in Jewish, Christian and Islamic tradition. He was also the progenitor of the Israelite Tribe of Benjamin. Unlike Rachel's first son, Joseph, Benjamin ...
The patriarchs ( Hebrew: אבות ʾAvot, "fathers") of the Bible, when narrowly defined, are Abraham, his son Isaac, and Isaac's son Jacob, also named Israel, the ancestor of the Israelites. These three figures are referred to collectively as "the patriarchs", and the period in which they lived is known as the patriarchal age .