Bible Names

Joses: meaning of the name

Joses means “same as Jose.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Joses in Hebrew and Greek

Ἰωσῆς G2500

Iōsēs — Joses, the name of two Israelites

perhaps for G2501 (Ἰωσήφ);

Who named Joses in the Bible

Joses in Scripture

“Joses” appears in 6 verses of the King James Version.

  • Matthew 13:55

    Is not this the carpenter’s son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?

  • Matthew 27:56

    Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee’s children.

  • Mark 6:3

    Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.

  • Mark 15:40

    There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;

  • Mark 15:47

    And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid.

  • Acts 4:36

    And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus,