Yeshua (name)

Yehoshua is a transliteration of the Hebrew personal name יהושוע which occurs several times in the Bible and is used today.

Derivation and notation

The following spellings of the name are attested in the Bible and in their translations:

The name Yehoshua has been used mostly in Palestine after the Babylonian exile in the short form Yeshua. This is a very common personal name that is occupied in numerous inscriptions. In the Hebrew Bible, it is primarily the name of the Israelites Yehoshua ben Well, of leading the people into the promised land of Canaan, and after the book of Joshua is named.

Yeshua is in the New Testament as Ἰησοῦς ( Jesus ) reproduced Name of Jesus of Nazareth.

The origin of the name Yehoshua and their dissimilated form Yeshua is not finally resolved.

Older dictionaries of the Hebrew language indicate a possible descent from the composition of jhw ( short form of YHWH, the name of God of the Hebrew Bible ) and SUA ʿ ( " noble ", " generous ", " be posh " ) toward or recognize a derivation from the verb Jaša ʿ ( "save" ) as in the name Hoshea ʿ. For a derivation from the root " to save, liberate" says a statement of Matthew's Gospel about the etymology of the name Jesus. It says in Matthew 1:21 NIV: " And thou shalt call his name JESUS ​​; for he will save his people from their sins. "

Newer encyclopedias include the derivation of the name from from the verb ʿ Jaša. The traditional interpretation of the name as " God is salvation / Help / redemption" expects a derivation of the name from the composition of jhw and SUA ʿ ( " call for help ").

Bearers of the name

  • Yeshua ( High Priest ) (also Joshua, Joshua or Joshua), biblical person
  • Yehoshua Bar - Hillel (1915-1975), an Israeli philosopher, mathematician and linguist
  • Joshua Benveniste ( Joshua Raphael ben Israel Benveniste, born about 1590, died about 1665), Jewish scholar in Turkey
  • Yehoshua ben Hananiah, the Mishnah called simply R. Joshua, one of the main disciples Johanan b. Sakkais
  • Yehoshua Hankin ( Hankin Yehoshua, Joshua Hankin, also: Chenkin; 1864-1945 ), a Zionist pioneer
  • Abraham Joshua Heschel of Apta, (1748-1825; known as the Apter Rebbe ), Hasidic tzaddik
  • Yehoshua Kenaz ( b. 1937 ), Israeli writer
  • Yehoshua Lakner ( Yehoshua Lakner, 1924-2003 ), Israeli- Swiss composer
  • Yehoshua ben Levi (also: Joshua ben Levi ), perhaps son of Levi b. Sissi, the 1st generation amora in Lydda
  • Yehoshua Rabinowitz (1911-1979), Israeli politician and Minister of Avodah
  • Joshua Sobol ( born 1939 ), Israeli playwright and writer
  • Abraham B. Yehoshua ( b. 1936 ), Israeli writer
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