What is another name for Joshua?

[water]

Hello I was searching online for the word “Jesus” in Old Testament, and the results came up several verses containing the word “Jesus”.
drbo.org/cgi-bin/s?q=jesus&b=drb&t=1

I looked it up in my “New American Bible” version, it says “Joshua”.

Is the name “Jesus” also called “Joshua”?

Thanks!

 

[Bruised_Reed]

Jesus is the Greek, and Yeshua is the Hebrew. It’s easier to see with Yeshua. Since the New Testament is in Greek Jesus is what we are familiar with.

 

[Mintaka]

A lot of Jews in Jesus’ time used Greek versions of Jewish names, because Greek was the language of art, culture, and the wider world, or because they dealt with a lot of Romans and Greek-speaking outsiders. Sorta like an American person deciding it would sound classier to call her daughter Angelique instead of Angelica, or an American living in France telling her neighbors to call her Marie instead of Mary because it’d be easier for them to pronounce. Jesus and Mary apparently both used Greek versions of their Jewish names in normal life.

IIRC, the name Joshua is actually “Yehoshua”, aka “Yeshua”.

The Greek-icized version of Yeshua is “Iesos”. (Did I spell that right?)

The Latin version of Iesos is “Iesus”, Jesus.

There’s a lot of this going around in the NT.
Hannah=Anna/Ann
Miriam=Maria=Mary
Jochanan=Iohannus=John
Judah=Jude (and Judas, too)
Simeon=Simon

Fortunately, Joseph’s name is spelled Joseph in English both in the Old and New Testament, so the parallels are clearer.

 

[Crusade_Guy]

IIRC, the name Joshua is actually “Yehoshua”, aka “Yeshua”.

The Greek-icized version of Yeshua is “Iesos”. (Did I spell that right?)

The Latin version of Iesos is “Iesus”, Jesus.

There’s a lot of this going around.
Hannah=Anna/Ann
Miriam=Maria=Mary
Jochanan=Iohannus=John
Judah=Jude (and Judas, too)
Simeon=Simon

Fortunately, Joseph’s name is spelled Joseph in English both in the Old and New Testament, so the parallel is clearer.

James=Jacob…

 

[Mintaka]

Yeah, that’s a biggie. Thanks for reminding us!

 

[water]

ahh! Thank you all for helping!

 

[Traditional_Ang]

A lot of Jews in Jesus’ time used Greek versions of Jewish names, because Greek was the language of art, culture, and the wider world, or because they dealt with a lot of Romans and Greek-speaking outsiders. Sorta like an American person deciding it would sound classier to call her daughter Angelique instead of Angelica, or an American living in France telling her neighbors to call her Marie instead of Mary because it’d be easier for them to pronounce. Jesus and Mary apparently both used Greek versions of their Jewish names in normal life.

Mentika:

The Jews who used the Greek versions of their names instead of their Hebrew or Aramaic names lived in the Diaspora, and that practice was fairly common in the Diaspora vecause of the need to fit in with the larger Greco-Roman society. OTOH, that practice was extremely rare in Judea, esp. after the time of the Macabbees.

Although all of the Holy Family may have adopted the practice when they lived in Egypt, they most certainly would have re-adopted local custom when living in the Holy Land, esp. given the significance & meanings of Jesus’ Hebrew Name (The contracted name “Yeshua” means “Yahweh is Salvaltion” or “The Lord Saves”), of Mary’s (Newer Heb “Mary” - “The Perfect One” Old Heb “Miriam” - “Waters of Strength”) and of Joseph’s (“Yasap” - “One who brings increase”).

abarim-publications.com/Arie/BibleNames.html

That doesn’t mean the Creator of the world wasn’t fluent in whatever language he decided to be when he decided to be (If you’ve seen the scene where Jesus is speaking Latin to Pontius Pilate in the movie Passion of the Christ, you’ll know what I mean).

Your Brother in Christ, Michael

 

[LilyM]

That doesn’t mean the Creator of the world wasn’t fluent in whatever language he decided to be when he decided to be (If you’ve seen the scene where Jesus is speaking Latin to Pontius Pilate in the movie Passion of the Christ, you’ll know what I mean).

Your Brother in Christ, Michael

That episode is from a private revelation though. We don’t know that Jesus spoke in Latin to Pilate.