The early English bibles including the original KJV used the Latin spelling, Iesus, pronounced yay-SOOS, which somehow morphed into JEEZ-us. Yeshua was poorly transliterated in Greek to Iesous due to their alphabet's inability to reproduce the Hebrew/Aramaic yod and shin characters, and they added a final sigma to make the Name masculine. For now, It is Wonderful, and we must content with the descriptions availed to us.Īlan suthard I believe that our Savior was given the Hebrew Name, Yehoshua, (Yehovah is deliverance/salvation) by His earthly parents, but was mostly called by the shorter, Aramaic name, Yeshua. In conclusion, we can call Him by the definition that means the same thing in the original languages, but it seems to me unfair to expect the whole world to pronounce the Name in the same way. After all, most of us on this forum can't pronounce Hebrew. Surely we don't want to 'force' dialects like Chinese to learn to pronounce Hebrew. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. 'Messiah' in Hebrew is 'Christ' in Greek. You'll also realize that the titles for God and for the Messiah differ from language to language. "Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name 'Emmanuel', which being interpreted is, 'God with us'".Īs we can see, His Name is really not yet revealed. 22.Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, 23. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. KJV "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and HIS NAME shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." KJV "Therefore JEHOVAH himself shall give you a sign Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel." The Word "JEHOVAH" in the bible is a statement, not a Name.Įxodus 3:13-14 KJV 'And Moses said unto God, "Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you " and they shall say to me, "What is his name?" what shall I say unto them? And God said unto Moses, "I AM THAT I AM:" and he said, "Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, 'I AM' hath sent me unto you".įrom this 'I AM' was derived the various Divine Names - YHWH, JEHOVAH - and other variations. Let me say, the Name of our Lord and Saviour has NOT yet been revealed. I feel duty bound to answer this question, not because it is important in and of itself, but one major cult makes a big issue about Names. So we simply follow in the Holy Spirit's tradition and the tradition of the Church and call Him Jesus Christ instead of Yeshua Meshiach. We have no real evidence to suppose that the New Testament (as a whole) was written in Hebrew and then translated to Greek. The reason we choose to transliterate Jesus versus Joshua is because the Holy Spirit saw it fit to give us the New Testament in Greek and the Old Testament in Hebrew, when Paul preached the sermon on Mars Hill and when Peter presented the Gospel to Cornelius' house (Acts 17:22-31 Acts 20:23-33) they definitely called Him Ἰησοῦς instead of Yeshua. In Spain they don't call Him "Jesus" they call him "Jesús" which is pronounced "Hey-soos" and the certainly don't call Him "Ἰησοῦς". Now, the reason that we still call Him "Jesus" is because it's the English transliteration of "Ἰησοῦς", His Greek name. Now, in Greek we find that Jesus' name is "Ἰησοῦς" or "Y-ei-soos" and taking into account the different phonetics due to transliteration and looking in the Septuagint we find that the name Joshua is transliterated as "ιησοι" in Joshua 1:1 which is a different form (genitive I believe) of "Ἰησοῦς" (which is nominative). John-Luke Muresan Part-time Children and Youth Minister of Arthur Pentecostal So, in the Hebrew the name Joshua is pronounced "יְהוֹשֻׁעַ" or "Yehoshua" and is alternately pronounced "יֵשׁוּעַ" or "Yeshua", this can be considered an Aramaic variation of the original name.
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