Jesus' Real Name: Must We Call Him Yeshua?
The Hebrew word for Jesus can be either Yehoshua, Yeshua or Yeshu. The Greek words for Joshua is Iasous. Which is the name they give Jesus. Through time and many translations words go through a lot of growth and change. Depending on the translator names and words are often translated differently.
Hebrew numbers are formed differently from Western or European numbers. In the west, only 10 digits are used, and the position of the digit indicates its value in powers of 10 beginning at 1, so the digit value is multiplied by 1, 10, 100, 1000, etc. as the position increases from right to left. (Being position-based, a zero digit is an absolute requirement.).
Handwritten Hebrew: The Tetragrammaton (meaning Four Letters), the word that is roughly in the middle of the image, is the name God revealed to Moses (YHVH). It is often written as LORD in English translations of the Bible out of reverence for the sacred name of God.
The Jewish God is not merely a philosophical concept, a final cause which explains the existence of the universe. He is a personal God, the true hero of the biblical stories, and the guide and mentor of His Chosen People. As such He has a proper name. In the Hebrew scriptures that name is written as.
In order to assert that the Savior’s name must always be pronounced as Yeshua rather than Jesus, one would have to dispute that Greek is the original language of the New Testament, since the Greek manuscripts render the Messiah’s name not using Hebrew, but rather using customary Greek spelling and vocabulary. If God caused the Messiah’s name to be rendered into common Greek usage in the.
A key proponent of this phenomenon, Jeff Benner, though he assumes that at first the Proto-Sinaitic (which he calls “early Hebrew”) script was used to write Hebrew, acknowledges that it was the later Paleo-Hebrew (which he also calls “middle Hebrew”) script that was actually used to write the Hebrew Bible (until the Babylonian captivity). Hence even if we assume that Hebrew was first.
The Bible uses different names of God to convey specific, personal meaning and identity. There's great power in a name. It says who we are, it's what we are known by to all those around us. And there's nothing so powerful as the name of our Lord God. The Bible says the name of the Lord is like a strong tower; the righteous can run to it and be saved. In a world that often feels chaotic and.