{"id":43706,"count":2,"description":"Joseph (Hebrew: \u05d9\u05d5\u05b9\u05e1\u05b5\u05e3 \u200e, Standard Yosef Tiberian Y\u00f4s\u0113p\u0304, Arabic: \u064a\u0648\u0633\u0641\u200e, Y\u016bsuf\u00a0; \"May Yahweh add\") is an important character in the Hebrew bible, where he connects the story of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in Canaan to the subsequent story of the liberation of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt.\nThe Book of Genesis tells how Joseph was the eleventh of Jacob's twelve sons and Rachel's firstborn. Joseph was sold into slavery by his jealous brothers, yet rose to become the most powerful man in Egypt next to Pharaoh. When famine struck the land he brought the sons of Israel down to Egypt, where they were settled in the Land of Goshen.\nAccording to the documentary hypothesis, the Bible is said to offer two explanations of name Yosef. In the Elohist source, it is compared to the word asaf from the root \/'sp\/, \"taken away\": \"And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach\". In the Jahwist source, Yosef is identified with the similar root \/ysp\/, meaning \"add\":\"And...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/joseph\/","name":"Joseph","slug":"joseph","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/43706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=43706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}