A name from Scripture
Yosef
yoh-SEF
Meaning
He will add; God increases
Hebrew origin · Boy · First in Genesis
What it points to
Yosef is God's addition — the fruitful bough by the well, branches running over the wall, the increase that only the LORD can give.
Verses · King James Version
“And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.”
Genesis 30:24
“Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall.”
Genesis 49:22