יֵשׁוּעַYêshûwaʻ
proper name, masculine: id.
Pronunciation: yay-shoo'-ah · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3442
Meanings
(Ezra 5:2)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 29 times in the Bible.
- 1 Chronicles 24:11 The ninth lot fell to Jeshua. The tenth lot fell to Shecaniah.
- 2 Chronicles 31:15 His faithful assistants were Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah. They distributed the gifts among the families of priests in their towns by their divisions, dividing the gifts fairly among old and young alike.
- Ezra 2:2 Their leaders were Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. This is the number of the men of Israel who returned from exile:
- Ezra 2:6 The family of Pahath-moab (descendants of Jeshua and Joab) 2,812
- Ezra 2:36 These are the priests who returned from exile:The family of Jedaiah (through the line of Jeshua) 973
- Ezra 2:40 These are the Levites who returned from exile:The families of Jeshua and Kadmiel (descendants of Hodaviah) 74
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).