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Joseph was probably from the town of Nazareth.Nazareth
The bible was compiled in the first century AD. Joseph Smith was born in 1805. Now if you think about it very hard you should eventually come to realize that the bible was completed long before Joseph Smith was born.
Joseph's ancestral home was Bethlehem but he lived in Nazareth.
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Israel.
Joseph from Hebrew, HU Seph meaning God Adds.
Saint Joseph is traditionally believed to have come from Bethlehem in Judea, which is present-day Israel.
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Goshen is mentioned in the Old Testament as a place where Joseph went. (Joseph the son of Jacob, of course; not Joseph of Mary and Joseph, who came much later.)
Joseph Stalin come to power in Russia after the Russian Revolution in 1917. He was the secretary general of the communists party which did not want Leon Trotsky to ascend to power after the death of Lenin.
Roman Catholic AnswerThat was before the time when surnames became popular, the closest they would have come would be "of the House of David".
The boy's name Joseph is pronounced JOH-sef. It is of Hebrew origin, and its meaning is "Jehovah increases".