Strong's #3091: Yhowshuwa` (pronounced yeh-ho-shoo'-ah)
or Yhowshua {yeh-ho-shoo'-ah}; from 3068 and 3467; Jehovah-saved; Jehoshua (i.e. Joshua), the Jewish leader:--Jehoshua, Jehoshuah, Joshua. Compare 1954, 3442.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ׁ / ּׁ
yehôshûa‛
Joshua or Jehoshua = "Jehovah is salvation"
1) son of Nun of the tribe of Ephraim and successor to Moses as the leader of the children of Israel; led the conquest of Canaan
2) a resident of Beth-shemesh on whose land the Ark of the Covenant came to a stop after the Philistines returned it
3) son of Jehozadak and high priest after the restoration
4) governor of Jerusalem under king Josiah who gave his name to a gate of the city of Jerusalem
Part of Speech: noun proper masculine
Usage:
This word is used 218 times:
Judges 2:21: "from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:"
Judges 2:23: "neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua."
1 Samuel 6:14: "came into of Joshua, a Beth-shemite, and stood there, where"
1 Samuel 6:18: "the ark of the LORD: which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Beth-shemite."
1 Kings 16:34: "which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun."
2 Kings 23:8: "the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor"
1 Chronicles 7:27: "Nun his son, Joshua"
Haggai 1:1: "governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest,"
Haggai 1:12: "Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest,"
Haggai 1:14: "governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest,"
Haggai 2:2: "governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest,"
Haggai 2:4: "the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest;"
Zechariah 3:1: "And he showed me Joshua priest standing before the angel"
Zechariah 3:3: " Now Joshua was clothed garments, and stood before the angel."
Zechariah 3:6: "And the angel of the LORD protested unto Joshua, saying,"
Zechariah 3:8: "Hear now, O Joshua priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit"
Zechariah 3:9: "I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven"
Zechariah 6:11: "crowns, and set them upon the head of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest;"
