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Later, Aramaic references to the Hebrew Bible adopted the contracted phonetic form of this Hebrew name as an Aramaic name. The name יֵשׁוּעַ, Yeshua (transliterated in the English Old Testament as Jeshua), is a late form of the Biblical Hebrew name יְהוֹשֻׁעַ, Yehoshua (Joshua), and spelled with a waw in the
The Greek is a Hellenized form of the Hebrew name Yeshua (Imperial Aramaic: ישוע, romanized: Yəšuʿ), which is in turn a shortened form of Hebrew: יהושע, romanized: Yəhošuʿ, English Joshua. [1] East Syriac literature renders the pronunciation of the same letters as Classical Syriac: ܝܫܘܥ ishoʿ (išoʿ) /iʃoʕ/.
Aramaic: ישוע Aramaic with vowels: יֵשׁוּע Transliteration: Yeshu Meaning: Yahweh is Salvation Jesus of Nazareth Aramaic: ישוע נצריא Aramaic with vowels: יֵשׁוּע נָצרָיָא Transliteration: Yeshu Nawsh-rie-ya Jesus Christ / Jesus the Messiah Aramaic: ישוע משיחא Aramaic with vowels: יֵשׁוּע ...
Indeed, in the Septuagint and Greek language Jewish texts such as the writings of Josephus and Philo of Alexandria, Jesus is the standard Greek translation of the common Hebrew name Yehoshua יְהוֹשֻׁעַ (Joshua), Greek having lost the h sound, as well as of the shortened form Yeshua יֵשׁוּעַ which originated in the ...
Pavlos D. Vasileiadis continues and cites to Muraoka, A Greek-Hebrew Aramaic Two-way Index to the Septuagint (72), and believes that kurios cannot be a synonym for YHWH: "Bearing in mind that κύριος in the late LXX copies is used to render more than twenty corresponding Hebrew (HB) terms or term combinations of the HB, in a similar manner ...
This points towards an Aramaic useage, not a Hebrew one. Additionally, the shortening of yehoshua to yeshua` only occurs in the exhillic and post-exhillic books of the Old Testament. The lingua franca of the Babylonian Empire was Aramaic.
The Greek is a loan translation of the Hebrew mashiaħ (מָשִׁיחַ) or Aramaic mshiħa (מְשִׁיחָא), from which the English word messiah is derived. "Christ" has now become a name, one part of the name "Jesus Christ", but originally it was a title ("the Messiah") and not a name; however its use in the phrase "Christ Jesus" is a title.
The English Jesus is a transliteration of the Greek Ἰησοῦς, or Iēsoûs.In translations of the Hebrew Bible into Ancient Greek, Iēsoûs was used to represent the Hebrew/Aramaic name Yeshua, a derivation of the earlier Hebrew Yehoshua, or Joshua.