Joseph
- Role
- patriarch, Egyptian official
- Era
- 1900 BC–1780 BC
- Passages
- 197
- Named in
- Old Testament (14 books), New Testament (4 books)
Patriarchal dating; the Egyptian setting is not tied to a named pharaoh.
Sold into Egypt and raised to authority there.
The name
- Ἰωσὴφ Iōsēph — Joseph lexicon
- בִּֽיה֘וֹסֵ֤ף bi.Ho.Sef — in Joseph lexicon
- יוֹסֵ֖ף yo.Sef — Joseph lexicon
- פַּעְנֵחַ֒ pa'.ne.aCh — Paneah
More than one form is recorded — a renaming, or the Greek and Hebrew of the same person. They are listed under one entry rather than as separate people.
Family
Read as a pattern
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Read as prefiguring Jesus of Nazareth
Betrayed by his brothers for silver, condemned though innocent, raised to authority and returning good for evil. Genesis draws no such comparison; it is a reading of the shape of the story.
Gen 37:28; Gen 50:20
Places named alongside
- Egypt 34 verses
- Canaan 7 verses
- Bethel 1 4 verses
- Goshen 1 4 verses
- On 3 verses
- Bashan 2 verses
- Beth-shean 2 verses
- Jordan 2 verses
- Luz 1 2 verses
- Shechem 2 verses
- Aijalon 1 verse
- Dor 1 verse
Named in
- Genesis 30:24
- Genesis 30:25
- Genesis 33:2
- Genesis 33:7
- Genesis 35:24
- Genesis 37:2
- Genesis 37:3
- Genesis 37:5
- Genesis 37:13
- Genesis 37:17
- Genesis 37:23
- Genesis 37:28
- Genesis 37:29
- Genesis 37:31
- Genesis 37:33
- Genesis 39:1
- Genesis 39:2
- Genesis 39:4
- Genesis 39:5
- Genesis 39:6
- Genesis 39:7
- Genesis 39:10
- Genesis 39:20
- Genesis 39:21
- Genesis 39:22
- Genesis 40:3
- Genesis 40:4
- Genesis 40:6
- Genesis 40:8
- Genesis 40:9
- Genesis 40:12
- Genesis 40:16
- Genesis 40:18
- Genesis 40:22
- Genesis 40:23
- Genesis 41:14
- Genesis 41:15
- Genesis 41:16
- Genesis 41:17
- Genesis 41:25
- Genesis 41:39
- Genesis 41:41
- Genesis 41:42
- Genesis 41:44
- Genesis 41:45
- Genesis 41:46
- Genesis 41:49
- Genesis 41:50
- Genesis 41:51
- Genesis 41:54
- Genesis 41:55
- Genesis 41:56
- Genesis 41:57
- Genesis 42:3
- Genesis 42:4
- Genesis 42:6
- Genesis 42:7
- Genesis 42:8
- Genesis 42:9
- Genesis 42:14
Showing the first 60 of 197 passages, in canonical order.
Passages are linked from the tagged text; the summary and any positions above are written by hand and cited.