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Baby Name Joseph |
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| Meaning of Joseph - What does the name Joseph means? |
| Pronunciation: |
| jo-sef |  |
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Boy Name |
| Origin: |
Biblical |
| Name Meaning: |
Derived from the Hebrew ycsef (may he add, God shall add). The name is borne in the Bible by a favorite son of Jacob and Rachel (Gen. 30), by the husband of the Virgin Mary and foster father of Jesus (MATT. 1), and by Joseph of Arimathea, a rich Jew and secret follower of Jesus, who helped take Jesus' body from the cross to prepare it for burial, and supposedly took the Holy Grail to England (John 19) |
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