Yeshu, Yehoshua, or Yeshua

[Luc Lefebvre]

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Like it or not JESUS is just alright with Him.

Yeah, I heard a great quote when talking with Tim Hegg the other week about the SNM that I think sums it up nicely,

"Sounds don't have meanings. Meanings have sounds."

Simply beautiful.

Anyway, in Hebrew it's Yeshua. There's an interesting wordplay in Matthew if we take it into Hebrew,

?You shall call his name Yeshua (he saves or delivers) for he will ?Yoshia? (will save) his people from their sins."

Accurate form of pronunciation though is quite relative. In the Aramaic manuscripts it's spelt exactly the way we spell it in Hebrew today, and we say it with vowels that have it end up sounding "Yeshua". But if we mean in relation to how 1st century Aramaic speakers pronounced it, I'm sure it was slightly different, although I can't say with exact certainty what it would be (perhaps the accent on the vowels was slightly changed?) The long forms of names was not used in the 1st century though, as you have already read.