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Ἰωσή

Iōsḗ · G2499 · Greek · 0 occurrences

Person

Meanings

  1. The proper name Joses, borne by more than one individual in the New Testament

    This lexeme does not occur in the New Testament text as tagged in standard critical editions. The name appears in several passages under related forms (Ἰωσῆς (Iōsēs, G2500) Ἰωσῆς, Ἰωσήφ (Iōsḗph, G2501) Ἰωσήφ) rather than this specific spelling variant.

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

Ἰωσῆς Iōsēs · G2500 · Joses, the name of two Israelites · 3×ἸωσήIōsḗ · G2499
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon [ (A. V. Jose, incorrectly), see Ἰωσῆς, at the beginning) Ἰωσῆς, genitive Ἰωσῆ (R G in Lk…
[ (A. V. Jose, incorrectly), see Ἰωσῆς, at the beginning) Ἰωσῆς, genitive Ἰωσῆ (R G in Lk 3:29 Ἰωσῆ (which A. V. incorrectly takes as the nominative Jose)) and (L T Tr WH in Mk 6:3; Mk 15:40, Mk 15:47) Ἰωσῆτος (cf. Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. i., p. 199; Buttmann, 19f (17f); Winers Grammar, § 10, 1; (WH's Appendix, p. 159a)), ὁ, Joses;
1. one of the ancestors of Christ: Lk 3:29 ((see above); L T Tr WH Ἰησοῦ, which see 2).
2. the brother of Jesus: Mk 6:3, and R G in Mt 13:55 (where L T Tr WH Ἰωσήφ, which see 6); see Ἰάκωβος, 3.
3. the son of Mary, the sister of the mother of Jesus (see Μαριάμ, 3): Mt 27:56 (where T Tr marginal reading WH text Ἰωσήφ (Ἰωσῆς and Ἰωσήφ seem to have been different forms of one and the same name; cf. Renan in the Journ. Asiat., 1864, ser. vi. T. iv., p. 536; Frankel, Hodeget in Misch., p. 31 note; Böhl, Volksbibel as above with, p. 15)); Mk 15:40, Mk 15:47.
4. a Levite, surnamed Βαρναβᾶς (which see): Acts 4:36 (where L T Tr WH Ἰωσήφ).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0