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| Keywords: File-JesusYeshua.svg en For en Jesus articles adding Hebrew Greek and Latin transcriptions own Stevert date The Hebrew name Yeshua <big>ישוע</big> written with the letters yod-shin-waw-`ayin of the Hebrew alphabet is found in the Hebrew of the Old Testament at Ezra 2 2 2 6 2 36 2 40 3 2 3 8 3 9 3 10 3 18 4 3 8 33; Nehemiah 3 19 7 7 7 11 7 39 7 43 8 7 8 17 9 4 9 5 11 26 12 1 12 7 12 8 12 10 12 24 12 26; 1 Chronicles 24 11; and 2 Chronicles 31 15 and also in Aramaic at Ezra 5 2 This is a shortened post-Exilic version of the name יהושע or Joshua For this reason the name of Joshua son of Nun appears as ישוע Yeshua in Nehemiah 8 17 and as Ιησους Iêsous or Jesus in the ancient Greek of Josephus and the New Testament Acts 7 45 Hebrews 4 8 etc Note that ca 1600 Protestant Bible translators started to transcribe <big>ישוע</big> in the Old Testament into English as Jeshua but kept transcribing Ιησους in the New Testament into English as Jesus obscuring the connection between the equivalent Greek and Hebrew versions of the same name Jesus name JesusYeshua2.svg en For en Jesus articles adding Hebrew Greek and Latin transcriptions own Stevert date The Hebrew name Yeshua <big>ישוע</big> written with the letters yod-shin-waw-`ayin of the Hebrew alphabet is found in the Hebrew of the Old Testament at Ezra 2 2 2 6 2 36 2 40 3 2 3 8 3 9 3 10 3 18 4 3 8 33; Nehemiah 3 19 7 7 7 11 7 39 7 43 8 7 8 17 9 4 9 5 11 26 12 1 12 7 12 8 12 10 12 24 12 26; 1 Chronicles 24 11; and 2 Chronicles 31 15 and also in Aramaic at Ezra 5 2 This is a shortened post-Exilic version of the name יהושע or Joshua For this reason the name of Joshua son of Nun appears as ישוע Yeshua in Nehemiah 8 17 and as Ιησους Iêsous or Jesus in the ancient Greek of Josephus and the New Testament Acts 7 45 Hebrews 4 8 etc Note that ca 1600 Protestant Bible translators started to transcribe <big>ישוע</big> in the Old Testament into English as Jeshua but kept transcribing Ιησους in the New Testament into English as Jesus obscuring the connection between the equivalent Greek and Hebrew versions of the same name Jesus name | ||||
