Yehoshua may refer to:
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Joshua
Joshua ( ), also known as Yehoshua ( ''Yəhōšuaʿ'', Tiberian Hebrew, Tiberian: ''Yŏhōšuaʿ,'' Literal translation, lit. 'Yahweh is salvation'), Jehoshua, or Josue, functioned as Moses' assistant in the books of Book of Exodus, Exodus and ...
(Hebrew ''Yehoshua''), biblical figure, and the
Book of Joshua
The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian captivity, Babylonian exile. It tells of the ...
(Hebrew: '), a book of the Bible
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Yehoshua (surname)
Yehoshua is a Hebrew surname that is presumably derived directly from the English transliteration of , which means roughly "YHWH rescues" or "YHWH is salvation".''A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament'' Francis Brown, with S.R. Driver a ...
, a Hebrew surname
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Yehoshua (given name) Yehoshua is a masculine given name related to Joshua. People named Yehoshua include:
* Gerónimo de Santa Fe (fl. 1550–1620), Spanish physician and religious writer born Yehosúa ben Yosef
* Yehoshua Cohen (1922-1986), assassin of Swedish Count ...
, a list of people
See also
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Jesus (name)
Jesus () is a masculine given name derived from ''Iēsous'' (; in Classical Latin) the Ancient Greek form of the Hebrew name ''Yeshua'' (). As its roots lie in the name '' Isho'' in Aramaic and ''Yeshua'' in Hebrew, it is etymologically related ...
, an Anglicised version of the same Hebrew given name, as in Hebrews 4:8 referring to Jehoshua son of Nun, in the King James Version
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Joshua (name)
Joshua is a given name derived from the Hebrew ( Modern: ''Yəhōšūaʿ'', Tiberian: ''Yŏhōšūaʿ''), prominently belonging to Joshua, an early Hebrew leader of the Exodus period who has a major role in several books of the Bible. In later ...
, a Hebrew given name
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Yeshua
Yeshua () was a common alternative form of the name Yehoshua () in later books of the Hebrew Bible and among Jewish people of the Second Temple period. The name corresponds to the Greek spelling (), from which, through the Latin /, comes the En ...
(Aramaic: ), a shortened version of this name, found in Nehemiah 8:17
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