The meaning of Jeshua; Jeshuah in the Bible
(From International Standard Bible Encyclopedia)jesh'-u-a, je-shu'-a (yeshua', "Yahweh is deliverance" or "opulence"; compare JOSHUA):
(1) the King James Version "Jeshuah," head of the 9th course of priests, and possibly of "the house of Jeshua" (I Chronicles 24:11; Ezra 2:36; Nehemiah 7:39).
(2) A Levite of Hezekiah's time (II Chronicles 31:15).
(3) Son of Jozadak = Joshua the high priest (Ezra 2:2; Ezra 3:2, Ezra 3:8; Ezra 4:3; Ezra 5:2; Ezra 10:18; Nehemiah 7:7; Nehemiah 12:1, Nehemiah 12:7, Nehemiah 12:10, Nehemiah 12:26); see JOSHUA (4) = "Jesus" (1 Esdras 5:48 and Sirach 49:12).
(4) A man of Pahath-moab, some of whose descendants returned from Babylon to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:6; Nehemiah 7:11) = "Jesus" (1 Esdras 58).
(5) Head of a Levitical house which had oversight of the workmen in the temple (Ezra 2:40; Ezra 3:9; Nehemiah 7:43). He is mentioned again in Nehemiah 8:7 as taking part in explaining the Torah to the people, in Nehemiah 9:4 f. (compare Nehemiah 12:8) as leading in the worship, and in Nehemiah 10:9 (Hebrew 10) as sealing the covenant; this Jeshua is called son of Azaniah (Nehemiah 10:9). To these references should be added probably Nehemiah 12:24, where commentators read, "Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel" for "Jeshua the son of Kadmiel." Perhaps Jozabad (Ezra 8:33) is a "son" of this same Jeshua; compare Ezra 8:33 = 1 Esdras 8:63, where the King James Version is "Jesu," the Revised Version (British and American) "Jesus." He is the same as Jessue (the King James Version), Jesus (Revised Version) (1 Esdras 5:26).
(6) Father of Ezer, a repairer of the wall (Nehemiah 3:19).
(7) JOSHUA, son of Nun (Nehemiah 8:17) (which see).
David Francis Roberts
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