different between jacob vs joseph

Middle Dutch

Borrowed from Late Latin Iacobus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (Iák?bos), from Hebrew ????? (ya'aqóbh, literally “heel-grabber”).

j?cob m

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Dutch: Jacob, Jakob, Jacobus, Jakobus
- Afrikaans: Jacob, Jakob, Jacobus, Jakobus

Probably in allusion to Joseph's coat of many colours in Genesis 37:3.

joseph (plural josephs)

(sometimes capitalised) A woman's riding habit worn in the 18th century with a long cape and buttons running down the front.

joseph in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Earl, Alice Morse (1894) Costume of Colonial Times?^[1], C. Scribner's Sons, page 144

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