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Person

Jesus

Iesous

Ἰησοῦς

English form of Greek Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous). The WOTA Bible prints Yahshua.

See Yahshua (Yahshua).

Forms

  • Ἰησοῦς Iesous New Testament and Greek Old Testament form of the Hebrew name.
  • Ἰησοῦ Iesou Genitive and other declined forms.

Jesus is the ordinary English form of Greek Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous). The Septuagint had already used that spelling for the Hebrew name יהושע / ישוע. The New Testament keeps the same Greek for the Christ. Latin wrote Iesus. English Jesus follows that Greek–Latin path.

In later English and related spellings, the opening was often heard and written with a soft J / Ie- coloring far from the older Hebrew shape that still carries Yah. That pathway is faithful to the Greek. It is not the form the WOTA Bible prints.

The WOTA Bible does not split the name into Joshua for the Old Testament and Jesus for the New. It prints Yahshua in both, following the Hebrew consonants and Jerome’s Iosue more than the Iēsous line. For why, see Yahshua and Why do I say Yahshua?.

Strong’s

Strong’s dictionaries compiled by Open Scriptures, used under CC-BY-SA 4.0.

Ἰησοῦς G2424

Iēsoûs

Jesus (i.e. Jehoshua), the name of our Lord and two (three) other Israelites

of Hebrew origin (H03091);

KJV glosses: Jesus

Thayer’s

Joseph Henry Thayer, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889). Public-domain digital text.

Ἰησοῦς G2424

Iēsoûs

Ἰησοῦς, Ἰησοῦ, dative Ἰησοῦ, accusative Ἰησοῦν, vocative Ἰησοῦ (Winer's Grammar, § 10, 1), ὁ, Jesus (יְהושֻׁעַ and according to a later form, יֵשׁוּעַ, Syriac 9wSy [], i. e. whose help is Jehovah; German Gotthilf; but later writings gave the name the force of יְשׁוּעָה, see Mat 1:21, cf. Sir 46:1 Ἰησοῦς ὅς ἐγένετο κατά τό ὄνομα αὐτοῦ μέγας ἐπί σωτηρία ἐκλεκτῶν αὐτοῦ, of Joshua, the successor of Moses; Philo, nom. mutat. § 21 Ἰησοῦς ἑρμηνεύεται σωτηρία κυρίου), a very common proper name among the Israelites; cf. Delitzsch, Der Jesusname, in the Zeitschr. f. d. luth. Theol. for 1876, p. 209f (or Talmudic Studies xv.). In the N. T.:

1. Joshua (fully Jehoshua), the famous captain of the Israelites, Moses' successor: Act 7:45; Heb 4:8.

2. Jesus, son of Eliezer, one of Christ's ancestors: Luk 3:29 L T Tr WH.

3. Jesus, the Son of God, the Saviour of mankind: Mat 1:21; Mat 1:25; Luk 1:31; Luk 2:21, and very often; see κύριος and Χριστός.

4. Jesus Barabbas; see Βαραββᾶς.

5. Jesus, surnamed Justus, a Jewish Christian, an associate with Paul in preaching the gospel: Col 4:11.