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The name Jesus is derived from the Hebrew name Yeshua, which is based on the Semitic root y-š-ʕ (Hebrew: ישע), meaning "to deliver; to rescue." [12] [13] [14] Likely originating in proto-Semitic (yṯ'), it appears in several Semitic personal names outside of Hebrew, as in the Aramaic name Hadad Yith'i, meaning "Hadad
Jesus’ name in Hebrew is Yehoshua, which, over time, became contracted to the shorter Yeshua. What does Yeshua mean? Yehoshua, and therefore Yeshua as well, means “the Lord is salvation."
Most scholars, therefore, believe that Jesus’ real name was actually “Yeshua,” a fairly common Jewish name around the time Jesus was alive. Archaeologists have actually found the name carved into 71 burial caves in Israel, dating from the time the historical Jesus of Nazareth would have been alive.
By being born in Israel to a Hebrew mother, and cared for by a Hebrew step-father, Jesus’ heritage fulfilled the prophecy. In this sense, it is important that Jesus was Jewish. However, His ethnicity is not important where salvation is concerned.
The name Jesus derives from the Hebrew name "Yeshua" which means “Yahweh is salvation”. The name "Yeshua" was a common given name in ancient Israel, and it can be found in the Old Testament, primarily referring to figures like Joshua, who played significant roles in biblical narratives.
Followers of Messianic Judaism, Jews who accept Jesus Christ as the Messiah, refer to him by his Hebrew name, Yeshua. Yeshua means "Yahweh is Salvation." Its English spelling is Joshua, and its Greek form is Iēsous .
Yeshua and the Jewish apostles frequently quoted from the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures, which was frequently read and studied by Jews in the New Testament era. Jesus is not a pure Greek name, as there is no "J" in Greek.
Jesus’ name from Yeshua Hamashiach got Hellenized from the Greek word “IZEUS” or son of Zeus. This, of course, would be a far cry from proper theology if we took Jesus’ name to mean “Son of Zeus.” After all, Antiochus Epiphanes IV desecrated the temple by putting a statue of Zeus within it.
The Hebrew name for Jesus, Yeshu, is evidence for the Galilean pronunciation of the period, and is in no way abusive. Jesus was a Galilean, and therefore the a at the end of his name, Yeshua, was not pronounced. His full name was thus Yeshua.
This name is usually considered to be a compound of two parts: יהו Yeho, a theophoric reference to YHWH, the distinctive personal name of the God of Israel, plus a form derived from the Hebrew triconsonantal root y-š-ʕ or י-ש-ע "to liberate, save".