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Jos.

Jos. is the abbreviation of Joshua.

Jos. is the abbreviation of Joseph.

Meaning of Joshua

Proper noun

Joshua

  1. The sixth book of the Old Testament of the Bible, and a book of the Tanakh.
    Synonyms:
    Josh.
  2. The son of Nun, Judge of Israel following Moses; author of the Book of Joshua; Quranic figure.
    • So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joshua 11:23
  3. A male given name from Hebrew.
    • "His father had a notion," observes Malone, on the authority of Dr. Percy, Bishop of Dromore, "that it might at some future period of his life be an advantage to a child to bear an uncommon Christian name, - - - Hence our author derived the scriptural name of Joshua, which, though not very...1835, “The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds. To Which is Prefixed a Memoir by H.W.Beechey”, in Strand, London: T. Cadell, page 33
  4. A surname, transferred from the given name
    • Anthony Joshua
  5. A city in Johnson County, Texas, United States, named after the biblical Joshua.

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Meaning of Joseph

Proper noun

Joseph (countable and uncountable, plural Josephs)

  1. Eleventh and favorite son of Jacob, by his wife Rachel.
    • Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 37:3
  2. The husband of Mary, mother of Jesus.
    • Meronym: Holy Family
    Synonyms:
    Saint Joseph
  3. The 12th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
  4. Joseph of Arimathea; man who donated his own prepared tomb for the burial of Jesus.
  5. A male given name from Hebrew.
    • I'm going to call him Joseph / or Josephine if it's a girl. / Why? / Because it's a strong name, / Joe, Joseph. / You give a kid a name like Cameron / or Alfred, or something like that, / and they end up wearing glasses / and looking at computers for the rest of their life. / - - - So Joe it is. /...1998, Steven Herrick, A Place Like This, Univ. of Queensland Press, →ISBN, page 86
  6. An English surname originating as a patronymic.

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Questions about Jos.

What is Jos. the abbreviation of?
Jos. is the abbreviation of Joshua.

Words near Jos. in the dictionary

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  11. Jose C. Payumo, Jr.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Jos. (page history and authors); Joshua (page history and authors); Joseph (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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