Bible Lexicons

Ἰωσῆ (A. V. Jose, incorrectly), see Ἰωσῆς, at the beginning) Ἰωσῆς, genitive Ἰωσῆ (R G in Luke 3:29 Ἰωσῆ (which A. V. incorrectly takes as the nominative Jose)) and (L T Tr WH in Mark 6:3; Mark 15:40, 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: Luke 3:29 ((see above); L T Tr WH Ἰησοῦ, which see 2).

2. the brother of Jesus: Mark 6:3, and R G in Matthew 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): Matthew 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)); Mark 15:40, 47.

4. a Levite, surnamed Βαρναβᾶς (which see): Acts 4:36 (where L T Tr WH Ἰωσήφ).