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Jesus in Greek is Iesus in Hebrew it is Yeshua or Yahoshua meaning " The Lord Saves"

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Q: The name Jesus is the Greek form of Joshua which means?
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Was not the baby Jesus named Joshua?

The two names are essentially the same. Joshua is the Hebrew form, Jesus is the Greek.


If Jesus was Jewish why don't I hear of male Jews being named Jesus?

the name Jesus is considered to be the Greek form of Joshua, a short form of Jehoshua or Yahushua.


How do you say Dear Jesus in Latin?

Jesus is the English form of the Greek word, which in its turn is from the Hebrew. The Hebrew form of Jesus is Joshua. Joshua is from the Hebrew word that means "saviour" or "salvation"


What is the original meaning of the word Jesus?

Jesus is an Anglicized form of the Greek name Iesous. Iesous is a transliteration of the Heb. "Joshua," meaning "Jehovah is salvation,"


What is Jesus in Latin?

The word Jesus is the Latin form of the Greek Iesous, which in turn is the transliteration of the Hebrew Jeshua, or Joshua, or again Jehoshua, meaning "Jehovah is salvation."


What is the meaning of the name 'Josh'?

It's a short form of Joshua, which is a Hebrew form of the name Jesus. It actually means "Jehvah is Salvation"


What name means Yahweh is salvation?

well... Hebrew for "Yahweh is Salvation" is Yahushua or Joshua, so that's pretty close. Also, Joshua, after translated into Greek, and then Latin, turned into the name Iesus, which today is Jesus.Correction:The word "Yahweh" is Christian and English in origin and is not, nor has ever been, used by Jews. As such, there is no phrase for "Yahweh is Salvation" in Hebrew.It means Jesus saves :) God Bless you!


What does the name 'jesus' means?

pronounced JEE-zus, hay-SOOS. It is of Hebrew origin, and the meaning of Jesus is "the Lord is salvation". Short form of Joshua, from the Hebrew name Jehoshua.


What was Joshua's other name?

Another form of Jesus meaning Saviour


Why is Jesus called Jesus?

According to Wikipedia, Yeshua was a common alternative form of the name Joshua in later books of the Hebrew Bible and among Jews of the Second Temple period.This name corresponds to the Greek spelling Iesous, from which comes the English spelling Jesus.Yehoshua (Joshua in English) in the Hebrew means "Yahweh is salvation", which is an appropriate name for Jesus the Son of God who, according to the Jesus as recorded in the Gospels, came to seek and save that which was lost.


Was Jesus a common name?

'Jesus' was a Greek translation of the Hebrew name 'Yeshua', which is also more usually translated as Joshua. Yeshua was a very common Jewish name in the first century.Jesus was not a very common name. But Jesus in Spanish (hay-zuse) is a popular name for Mexicans


Why is the name Christ after Jesus?

Christ in the Greek form means annointed one. The equivalent in Hebrew is the word Messiah which means annointed one.