Biblical character, the subject of many stories (Gen 3750); the 11th son of Jacob, but the first by his wife Rachel. He is depicted as Jacob's favourite son (marked by the gift of a multicoloured coat) who was sold into slavery by his jealous brothers, yet who by prudence and wisdom rose from being a servant to high office in Pharaoh's court, with special responsibility for distributing grain supplies during a time of famine. Eventually he is portrayed as reconciled with his brothers, who came to Egypt to escape the famine. His sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, were blessed by Jacob, and became ancestors of two of the tribes of Israel.
Famous persons with the surname Joseph
Placenames
United States Joseph, Utah Joseph, Oregon Saint Joseph
Joseph and the arts
Joseph, an opera by the 19th century French composer Étienne Méhul
Other language variants
Giô-sép - Vietnamese Giuseppe & Peppu - Maltese - Il-Malti Hohepa - Māori Հովսեփ (Hovsep') - Armenian იოსებ (Ioseb) - Georgian Iosephus - Latin Ιώσηπος (Iōsepos) - Greek Ιωσήφ (Iosēph) -
Greek Иосиф (Iosif) - Russian Iosif - Romanian Joe - (Shortened) English Joosef - Low German Jooseppi - Finnish José, Pepe - Spanish Joseba - Basque Josef - Czech, German, Norwegian, Swedish
Jósef - Icelandic Jósep - Icelandic Josep, Pep - Catalan Josepe - Basque Josephus - Latin Јосиф (Josif) - Serbian Josip - Croatian, Slovene Jozef - Albanian, Dutch, Slovenian, Slovak Jozèf -
Haitian Creole Jozefo - Esperanto Józef - Polish József - Hungarian Juozapas - Lithuanian Juozas - Lithuanian Осип (Osip) - Russian Seosamh - Irish Seòsaidh - Scottish Gaelic Xosé - Galician ዮሰፍ
(Yosef) - Ge'ez and other Ethiopian Semitic languages יוֹסֵף (Yosef) - Hebrew Йосиф (Yosif) - Bulgarian Йосип (Yosyp) - Ukrainian يوسف (Yusuf) - Arabic, Persian, et al. Yusuf - Indonesian and
Turkish 若瑟 (Mandarin pinyin - rùo-sè, Cantonese jœk) - Chinese ഔസേപ്പ് (Ouseph) - Malayalam 요셉 (Yoseb) - Korean Zé - (Shortened) Portuguese
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