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  2. Joseph - Wikipedia

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    The Bible offers two explanations for the origins of the name Yosef: first, it is compared to the word asaf from the root /'sp/, ' taken away ': "And she conceived, and bore a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach"; Yosef is then identified with the similar root /ysp/, meaning ' add ': "And she called his name Joseph; and said, The L ORD shall add to me another son."

  3. José - Wikipedia

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    The French given name José, pronounced , is an old vernacular form of the French name Joseph, and is also popular under the feminine form Josée. The masculine form is current as a given name, or as short for Joseph as is the case of French politician José Bové.

  4. Gender symbol - Wikipedia

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    Gender symbols on a public toilet in Switzerland A gender symbol is a pictogram or glyph used to represent sex and gender , for example in biology and medicine, in genealogy , or in the sociological fields of gender politics , LGBT subculture and identity politics .

  5. Yosef - Wikipedia

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    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 and the source of the English name Joseph. The name appears in the Book of Genesis. [1] Joseph is Jacob's eleventh son and Rachel's first son, and known in the Jewish Bible as Yossef ben-Yaakov. [2]

  6. Female - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Justus Scaliger once speculated that the symbol was associated with Venus, goddess of beauty, because it resembles a bronze mirror with a handle, [44] but modern scholars consider that fanciful, and the most established view is that the female and male symbols derive from contractions in Greek script of the Greek names of the planets ...

  7. Saint Joseph - Wikipedia

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    Joseph (Hebrew: יוסף, romanized: Yosef; Greek: Ἰωσήφ, romanized: Ioséph) was a 1st-century Jewish man of Nazareth who, according to the canonical Gospels, was married to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and was the legal father of Jesus.

  8. Joseph (Genesis) - Wikipedia

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    Joseph (/ ˈ dʒ oʊ z ə f,-s ə f /; Hebrew: יוֹסֵף, romanized: Yōsēp̄, lit. 'He shall add') [2] [a] is an important Hebrew figure in the Bible's Book of Genesis.He was the first of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's twelfth named child and eleventh son).

  9. Josef (given name) - Wikipedia

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    Josef is a variant of the masculine given name Joseph, notably used in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the Czech Republic, and also in Scandinavia. People