Yosef (; also

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as Yossef, Josef, Yoseph

Tiberian Hebrew Tiberian Hebrew is the canonical pronunciation of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) committed to writing by Masoretic scholars living in the Jewish community of Tiberias in ancient Galilee under the Abbasid Caliphate. They wrote in the form of Tib ...

and

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''Yôsēp̄'' and Yosseph, or Joseph,

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''Yusof'') is a

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male name derived from the Biblical character Joseph. The name can also consist of the Hebrew yadah meaning "praise", "fame" and the word asaf. It is the Hebrew equivalent of the Arabic name ''

Yusuf Yusuf ( ') is a male name meaning " God increases" (in piety, power and influence).From the Hebrew יהוה להוסיף ''YHWH Lhosif'' meaning " YHWH will increase/add". It is the Arabic equivalent of the Hebrew name Yosef and the English na ...

'' and the source of the English name '' Joseph''. The name appears in the

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. Joseph is

Jacob Jacob, later known as Israel, is a Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions. He first appears in the Torah, where he is described in the Book of Genesis as a son of Isaac and Rebecca. Accordingly, alongside his older fraternal twin brother E ...

's eleventh son and

Rachel Rachel () was a Bible, Biblical figure, the favorite of Jacob's two wives, and the mother of Joseph (Genesis), Joseph and Benjamin, two of the twelve progenitors of the tribes of Israel. Rachel's father was Laban (Bible), Laban. Her older siste ...

's first son, and known in the Jewish Bible as Yossef ben- Yaakov. In Christian culture, the name has the additional significance of being the name of

Saint Joseph According to the canonical Gospels, Joseph (; ) was a 1st-century Jewish man of Nazareth who was married to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and was the legal father of Jesus. Joseph is venerated as Saint Joseph in the Catholic Church, Eastern O ...

, described in the

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as the husband of

Mary, mother of Jesus Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Saint Joseph, Joseph and the mother of Jesus. She is an important figure of Christianity, venerated under titles of Mary, mother of Jesus, various titles such as Perpetual virginity ...

, and

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' legal father.

Given name

* Yosef ben Matityahu (Flavius Josephus), Jewish general and historian * Yossi Avni-Levy (1962–), Israeli writer and diplomat * Yossef Bodansky, Israeli-American political scientist * (Yosef) Joseph Caro (1488–1575), Spanish-Ottoman Talmid Chacham and author of the

Shulchan Aruch The ''Shulhan Arukh'' ( ),, often called "the Code of Jewish Law", is the most widely consulted of the various legal codes in Rabbinic Judaism. It was authored in the city of Safed in what is now Israel by Joseph Karo in 1563 and published in ...

* (Yossef) Joseph Cedar (1968–), Israeli film director and screenwriter * (Yosef) Josy Eisenberg (1933–2017), French television producer * Yosef Elboim, Israeli rabbi, founder and head of the Movement for the Establishment of the 3rd Jerusalem Temple * Yosef Garfinkel (1956–), Israeli archaeologist * Yossef Gutfreund (1932–1972), Israeli wrestling judge * Yossef Harmelin (1922–1994), Austrian-Israeli civil servant and ambassador * Yosef Yozel Horwitz (1847–1919), "The Alter of Novardok", Belarusian rabbi * Yosef Kapach (1917–2000), Yemenite scholar * Yosef Karduner (1969–, born Gilad Kardunos), Israeli Hasidic singer-songwriter * (Yossef) Joseph Klausner (1874–1958), Lithuanian-Israeli historian and professor of Hebrew literature * (Yosef) Joseph Kossonogi (1908–1981), Hungarian-Israeli painter * Yossef "Tommy" Lapid (1931–2008, born Tomislav Lampel), Hungarian-Israeli radio and television presenter, journalist, politician and government minister * Yosef Mizrachi (1968–), Israeli-American rabbi * Yosef Reinman, American rabbi and author * Yossef Romano (1940–1972), Israeli weightlifter, held hostage and killed during the Munich massacre by Palestinian terrorists * Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (1880–1950), Sixth Chabad Rebbe * Yosef Tekoah (1925–1991), Israeli diplomat and President of the

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) (, ''Universitat Ben-Guriyon baNegev'') is a public university, public research university in Beersheba, Israel. Named after Israeli List of national founders, national founder David Ben-Gurion, the unive ...

* Yosef Weitz (1890–1972), Russian-Israeli director of the Land and Afforestation Department of the Jewish National Fund * (Yossef) Joseph Zaritsky (1891–1985), Russian-Israeli artist

Surname

* Elie Yossef, Israeli-British educator and political activist * Jwan Yosef (1984–), Syrian-Swedish painter and artist * Menasheh ben Yosef ben Yisrael (1604–1657), Portuguese rabbi, kabbalist, writer, diplomat, printer and publisher, founder of the first Hebrew printing press (named Emeth Me'erets Titzmah') * Ya'akov Yosef (1946–2013), Israeli rabbi and member of the Knesset

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Yossef Hebrew masculine given names Masculine given names Hebrew-language surnames

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Surname

See also

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