יְהוֹשׁוּעַYᵉhôwshûwaʻ
proper name, masculine: is salvation, is opulence
Pronunciation: yeh-ho-shoo'-ah · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3091
Meanings
1. Moses' successor, son of Nun (Deuteronomy 3:21; Judges 2:7; Exodus 17:9)
2. a Bethshemite (1 Samuel 6:14; 1 Samuel 6:18)
3. high priest after the restoration, son of Jehozadak (Haggai 1:1; Haggai 1:12; Haggai 1:14)
4. governor of Jerusalem under Josiah (2 Kings 23:8)
6. a Levitical family-name of frequent occurrence
7. father of a builder at the wall (Nehemiah 3:19)
8. a Judaite family-name (Ezra 2:6; Nehemiah 7:11)
9. in south of Judah (Nehemiah 11:26)
Same root
- יְהֹוָהYᵉhôvâh · H3068Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
- יָשַׁעyâshaʻ · H3467properly, to be open, wide or free, i.e. (by implication) to be safe; causatively, to free or succor
- ἸησοῦςIēsoûs · G2424Jesus (i.e. Jehoshua), the name of our Lord and two (three) other Israelites
- ΒαριησοῦςBariēsoûs · G919son of Jesus (or Joshua); Bar-jesus, an Israelite
- יֵשׁוּעַYêshûwaʻ · H3442Jeshua, the name of ten Israelites, also of a place in Palestine
Where it appears
Appears 218 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 17:9 Moses commanded Joshua, “Choose some men to go out and fight the army of Amalek for us. Tomorrow, I will stand at the top of the hill, holding the staff of God in my hand.”
- Exodus 17:10 So Joshua did what Moses had commanded and fought the army of Amalek. Meanwhile, Moses, Aaron, and Hur climbed to the top of a nearby hill.
- Exodus 17:13 As a result, Joshua overwhelmed the army of Amalek in battle.
- Exodus 17:14 After the victory, the Lord instructed Moses, “Write this down on a scroll as a permanent reminder, and read it aloud to Joshua: I will erase the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”
- Exodus 24:13 So Moses and his assistant Joshua set out, and Moses climbed up the mountain of God.
- Exodus 32:17 When Joshua heard the boisterous noise of the people shouting below them, he exclaimed to Moses, “It sounds like war in the camp!”
See every passage
- Exodus 17:9, 17:10, 17:13, 17:14, 24:13, 32:17, 33:11
- Numbers 11:28, 13:16, 14:6, 14:30, 14:38, 26:65, 27:18, 27:22, 32:12, 32:28, 34:17
- Deuteronomy 1:38, 3:21, 3:28, 31:3, 31:7, 31:14, 31:23, 34:9
- Joshua 1:1, 1:10, 1:12, 1:16, 2:1, 2:23, 2:24, 3:1, 3:5, 3:6, 3:7, 3:9, 3:10, 4:1, 4:4, 4:5, 4:8, 4:9, 4:10, 4:14, 4:15, 4:17, 4:20, 5:2, 5:3, 5:4, 5:7, 5:9, 5:13, 5:14, 5:15, 6:2, 6:6, 6:8, 6:10, 6:12, 6:16, 6:22, 6:25, 6:26, 6:27, 7:2, 7:3, 7:6, 7:7, 7:10, 7:16, 7:19, 7:20, 7:22, 7:23, 7:24, 7:25, 8:1, 8:3, 8:9, 8:10, 8:13, 8:15, 8:16, 8:18, 8:21, 8:23, 8:26, 8:27, 8:28, 8:29, 8:30, 8:35, 9:2, 9:3, 9:6, 9:8, 9:15, 9:22, 9:24, 9:27, 10:1, 10:4, 10:6, 10:7, 10:8, 10:9, 10:12, 10:15, 10:17, 10:18, 10:20, 10:21, 10:22, 10:24, 10:25, 10:26, 10:27, 10:28, 10:29, 10:31, 10:33, 10:34, 10:36, 10:38, 10:40, 10:41, 10:42, 10:43, 11:6, 11:7, 11:9, 11:10, 11:12, 11:13, 11:15, 11:16, 11:18, 11:21, 11:23, 12:7, 13:1, 14:1, 14:6, 14:13, 15:13, 17:4, 17:14, 17:15, 17:17, 18:3, 18:8, 18:9, 18:10, 19:49, 19:51, 20:1, 21:1, 22:1, 22:6, 22:7, 23:1, 23:2, 24:1, 24:2, 24:19, 24:21, 24:22, 24:24, 24:25, 24:26, 24:27, 24:28, 24:29, 24:31
- Judges 1:1, 2:6, 2:7, 2:8, 2:21, 2:23
- 1 Samuel 6:14, 6:18
- 1 Kings 16:34
- 2 Kings 23:8
- 1 Chronicles 7:27
- Haggai 1:1, 1:12, 1:14, 2:2, 2:4
- Zechariah 3:1, 3:3, 3:6, 3:8, 3:9, 6:11
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).