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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 - And she named him Joseph,[fn] for she said, “May the LORD add yet another son to my family.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:25 - Soon after Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Please release me so I can go home to my own country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:2 - He put the servant wives and their children at the front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:7 - Next came Leah with her children, and they bowed before him. Finally, Joseph and Rachel came forward and bowed before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:24

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2 - This is the account of Jacob and his family. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he often tended his father’s flocks. He worked for his half brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah. But Joseph reported to his father some of the bad things his brothers were doing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:3 - Jacob[fn] loved Joseph more than any of his other children because Joseph had been born to him in his old age. So one day Jacob had a special gift made for Joseph—a beautiful robe.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:5 - One night Joseph had a dream, and when he told his brothers about it, they hated him more than ever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:13 - When they had been gone for some time, Jacob said to Joseph, “Your brothers are pasturing the sheep at Shechem. Get ready, and I will send you to them.”
“I’m ready to go,” Joseph replied.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:17 - “Yes,” the man told him. “They have moved on from here, but I heard them say, ‘Let’s go on to Dothan.’” So Joseph followed his brothers to Dothan and found them there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:23 - So when Joseph arrived, his brothers ripped off the beautiful robe he was wearing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:28 - So when the Ishmaelites, who were Midianite traders, came by, Joseph’s brothers pulled him out of the cistern and sold him to them for twenty pieces[fn] of silver. And the traders took him to Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:29 - Some time later, Reuben returned to get Joseph out of the cistern. When he discovered that Joseph was missing, he tore his clothes in grief.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:31 - Then the brothers killed a young goat and dipped Joseph’s robe in its blood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:33 - Their father recognized it immediately. “Yes,” he said, “it is my son’s robe. A wild animal must have eaten him. Joseph has clearly been torn to pieces!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:1 - When Joseph was taken to Egypt by the Ishmaelite traders, he was purchased by Potiphar, an Egyptian officer. Potiphar was captain of the guard for Pharaoh, the king of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:2 - The LORD was with Joseph, so he succeeded in everything he did as he served in the home of his Egyptian master.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:4 - This pleased Potiphar, so he soon made Joseph his personal attendant. He put him in charge of his entire household and everything he owned.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:5 - From the day Joseph was put in charge of his master’s household and property, the LORD began to bless Potiphar’s household for Joseph’s sake. All his household affairs ran smoothly, and his crops and livestock flourished.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:6 - So Potiphar gave Joseph complete administrative responsibility over everything he owned. With Joseph there, he didn’t worry about a thing—except what kind of food to eat!
Joseph was a very handsome and well-built young man,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:7 - and Potiphar’s wife soon began to look at him lustfully. “Come and sleep with me,” she demanded.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:10 - She kept putting pressure on Joseph day after day, but he refused to sleep with her, and he kept out of her way as much as possible.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:20 - So he took Joseph and threw him into the prison where the king’s prisoners were held, and there he remained.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:21 - But the LORD was with Joseph in the prison and showed him his faithful love. And the LORD made Joseph a favorite with the prison warden.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:22 - Before long, the warden put Joseph in charge of all the other prisoners and over everything that happened in the prison.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:3 - and he put them in the prison where Joseph was, in the palace of the captain of the guard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:4 - They remained in prison for quite some time, and the captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, who looked after them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:6 - When Joseph saw them the next morning, he noticed that they both looked upset.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:8 - And they replied, “We both had dreams last night, but no one can tell us what they mean.”
“Interpreting dreams is God’s business,” Joseph replied. “Go ahead and tell me your dreams.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:9 - So the chief cup-bearer told Joseph his dream first. “In my dream,” he said, “I saw a grapevine in front of me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:12 - “This is what the dream means,” Joseph said. “The three branches represent three days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:16 - When the chief baker saw that Joseph had given the first dream such a positive interpretation, he said to Joseph, “I had a dream, too. In my dream there were three baskets of white pastries stacked on my head.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:18 - “This is what the dream means,” Joseph told him. “The three baskets also represent three days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:22 - But Pharaoh impaled the chief baker, just as Joseph had predicted when he interpreted his dream.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:23 - Pharaoh’s chief cup-bearer, however, forgot all about Joseph, never giving him another thought.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:14 - Pharaoh sent for Joseph at once, and he was quickly brought from the prison. After he shaved and changed his clothes, he went in and stood before Pharaoh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:15 - Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I had a dream last night, and no one here can tell me what it means. But I have heard that when you hear about a dream you can interpret it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:16 - “It is beyond my power to do this,” Joseph replied. “But God can tell you what it means and set you at ease.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:17 - So Pharaoh told Joseph his dream. “In my dream,” he said, “I was standing on the bank of the Nile River,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:25 - Joseph responded, “Both of Pharaoh’s dreams mean the same thing. God is telling Pharaoh in advance 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 revealed the meaning of the dreams to you, clearly no one else is as intelligent or wise as you are.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:41

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:42

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:42 - Then Pharaoh removed his signet ring from his hand and placed it on Joseph’s finger. He dressed him in fine linen clothing and hung a gold chain around his neck.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:44

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:44 - And Pharaoh said to him, “I am Pharaoh, but no one will lift a hand or foot in the entire land of Egypt without your approval.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:45

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:45 - Then Pharaoh gave Joseph a new Egyptian name, Zaphenath-paneah.[fn] He also gave him a wife, whose name was Asenath. She was the daughter of Potiphera, the priest of On.[fn] So Joseph took charge of the entire land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:46

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:46 - He was thirty years old when he began serving in the court of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. And when Joseph left Pharaoh’s presence, he inspected the entire land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:49

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:49 - He piled up huge amounts of grain like sand on the seashore. Finally, he stopped keeping records because there was too much to measure.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:50

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:50 - During this time, before the first of the famine years, two sons were born to Joseph and his wife, Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, the priest of On.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:51

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:51 - Joseph named his older son Manasseh,[fn] for he said, “God has made me forget all my troubles and everyone in my father’s family.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:54

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:54 - Then the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had predicted. The famine also struck all the surrounding countries, but throughout Egypt there was plenty of food.

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