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Joseph occurs as given name originating from Hebrew, recorded in the Hebrew Bible, as יוֹסֵף, Standard Hebrew Yosef, and Tiberian Hebrew Yôsēp̄. Around Arabic, including in the Qur'an, the name is spelt يوسف or Yūsuf. A title may be translated from either Hebrew when signifying "The Lord will increase/add". This variant of the title is utilized mostly around English, French and German-speaking countries.
As a biblical & saints' name, Joseph has enjoyed significant & swell merited popularity around its numbers of forms inside numerous countries.
People referred to simply as "Joseph"
Religious figures
Joseph, son of Jacob, is a figure obtained in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. He was the Hebrew who was known for receiving the multi-varicolored cloak from either his father & late interpreted dreams, as well as a commodities trader for the Ancient Egyptian state.
A Tribe of Joseph, named when Joseph, boy of Jacob, consists of the Tribe of Ephraim and the Tribe of Manasseh.
Saint Joseph of Nazareth is a figure from either a New Testament prominent in Christianity, who was hubby of Mary and thus step-father of Jesus.
Joseph of Arimathea, from a New Testament, acquired the body of Jesus from either Pontius Pilate.
Joseph is the sixth son of the patriarch Lehi in the Book of Mormon.
Political leaders
Joseph was the title of Khazar ruler of the mid 900s CE who corresponded by using Hasdai ibn Shaprut
The total of leaders around western history, both lay & 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
Chief Joseph was a Nez Percé Chief, in North American history
Placenames
United States
Joseph, Utah
Joseph, Oregon
There come too occasionally site known as Saint Joseph.
Other language variants
Giô-sép - Vietnamese
Giuseppe - Italian
Ä użeppi - Maltese
Hohepa - MÄ?ori
Õ€Õ¸Õ¾Õ½Õ¥Öƒ (Hovsep') - Armenian
ი�სებ (Ioseb) - Georgian
Iosephus - Ecclesiastical Latin
Ιώσηπος (IÅ?sepos) - Greek
Ιωσήφ (Iosēph) - Greek
ИоÑ?иф (Iosif) - Russian
Joosef - Plattdüütsch
Jooseppi - Finnish
José - Spanish, Portuguese
Joseba - Basque
Josef - Czech, German, Norwegian, Swedish
Jósef - Icelandic
Josep - Catalan
Josepe - Basque
Josephus - Latin
ЈоÑ?иф (Josif) - Serbian
Josip - Croatian, Slovene
Jozef - Albanian, Dutch, Slovenian, Slovak, Polish
Jozèf - Haitian Creole
Jozefo - Esperanto
József - Hungarian
Juozapas - Lithuanian
Juozas - Lithuanian
ОÑ?ип (Osip) - Russian
Seosamh - Irish
Seòsaidh - Scottish Gaelic
Xosé - Galician
ЙоÑ?иф (Yosif) - Bulgarian
ЙоÑ?ип (Yosyp) - Ukrainian
Yue se - Mandarin pinyin
Yusuf - Indonesian, Turkish
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