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The name "Jesus" is an Anglicized (English) form of the Greek name Yesous. In the first century Yesous represented the Hebrew name Yeshua, which in turn was a shortened form of the name Yehoshua. Early Hebrew Bible1 Later Hebrew Bible2 LXX Greek (Septuagint) NT Greek Hebrew & Greek Transliteration Yeshoshua Yeshua Yesous (Iesous) Yesous (Iesous) English Bibles Joshua Jeshua Joshua Jesus, Joshua3 1 Exodus 17:9; Deuteronomy 34:9; Joshua 1:1 2 Ezra 2:2; Nehemiah 8:17; 2 Chronicles 31:15 3 Luke 3:29; Acts 7:45; Hebrews 4:8 The Hebrew name Yehoshua consists of two parts. (1) "Yeho—" is a shortened form of the Tetragrammaton [YHVH; in English Bibles: "the LORD"] when it is the first part of a name. (2) "—shua" is an abbreviated form of the verb yasha, which means "to save, rescue, or deliver." Thus the name Yehoshua means "the LORD saves or delivers." The New Testament reflects this Hebrew background in passages such as: She will bear a son; and you shall call his name Yeshua, for it is he who will save his people from their sins. (said by an angel; Matthew 1:21) There is salvation [Heb. yeshuah] in no one else; for there is no other Name under heaven that has been given among men, by which we must be saved. (Acts 4:12) God highly exalted him, and bestowed on him the Name which is above every name, that at the name of Yeshua ["the LORD saves or delivers"] every knee should bow, of those who are in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Yeshua Messiah is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:9-11) I have come in my Father's Name . . . [Father] I have manifested Your Name to those whom you have given to me." (John 5:43; 17:6) The name (and title) Christ comes into English from the Greek Christos, an adjectival noun used in the 2nd-century B(CE) Greek Old Testament (Septuagint) for men and things that were "anointed" with fragrant oil or with the Ruach of God. In the Greek New Testament, (the) Christos became so linked with Yeshua that it began to serve as a proper name. "Messiah" itself is an Anglicized (English) form of the Greek word Messias which is a Hellenized form of the Hebrew word Mashiach, and possibly the Aramaic Meshichah. — Mashiach (Hebrew) Meshichah (Aramaic) Messias1 (Greek) Christos2 (Greek) Messiah     1 Used only at John 1:41; 4:25     2 Used some 528x in the NT [Top]

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