yeshua

A common alternative form of the name Joshua in books of the Hebrew Bible

Yeshua or Y'shua was a common alternative form of the name יְהוֹשֻׁעַ‎ in later books of the Hebrew Bible and among Jews of the Second Temple period. The name corresponds to the Greek spelling Iesous (Ἰησοῦς), from which, through the Latin IESVS/Iesus, comes the English spelling Jesus.

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