The meaning of Joshua (1) in the Bible
(From International Standard Bible Encyclopedia)

josh'-u-a ((a) yehoshua', (b) yehoshua', "Yahweh is deliverance" or "opulence"; compare JESHUA; Iesous):

(1) Joshua the son of Nun; the name has the Hebrew form (a) above in Deuteronomy 3:21; Judges 2:7; elsewhere the form (b), except in Nehemiah 8:17, where it is of the form yeshua' (See JESHUA); compare also Numbers 13:8, Numbers 13:16; Deuteronomy 32:44. See following article.

(2) In I Samuel 6:14, I Samuel 6:18 (form (b)), the Bethshemite in whose field stood the kine that brought the ark from the Philistines.

(3) In II Kings 23:8 (form (b)), governor of Jerusalem in the time of Josiah.

(4) The high priest at Jerusalem after the return. See separate article.

S. F. Hunter

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