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Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Transliteration

Yêshûwaʻ

Phonetics

yah-shoo'-ah

Origin

corresponding to (H3442)

Parts of Speech

Proper Name Masculine

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Jeshua = “he is saved”

1) an exilic priest who returned with Zerubbabel

Frequency Lists

Verse Results

KJV (1)

Ezra 1

NAS (1)

Ezra 1

HCS (1)

Ezra 1

BSB (1)

Ezra 1

ESV (1)

Ezra 1

WEB (1)

Ezra 1

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

יֵשׁוּעַ [Jeshua], a contracted form of the pr.n. יֵהוֹשֻׁעַ used in the later Hebrew, Gr. Ἰησοῦς.

(1) of Joshua, the leader of the Israelites, Nehemiah 8:17.

(2) of a high priest of the same name; see יְהוֹשֻׁעַ No. 2, Ezra 2:2, 3:2 Nehemiah 7:7.

(3) pr.n. of other men, mentioned in the books of Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah.

[“(4) a city of Judah, Nehemiah 11:26.”]

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List of Word Forms

וְיֵשׁ֣וּעַ וישוע veyeShua wə·yê·šū·a‘ wəyêšūa‘