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יְהוֹשׁוּעַ H3091

Yᵉhôwshûwaʻ

yeh-ho-shoo'-ah

or יְהוֹשֻׁעַ; from יְהֹוָה and יָשַׁע; Jehovah-saved; Jehoshua (i.e. Joshua), the Jewish leader; Jehoshua, Jehoshuah, Joshua. Compare הוֹשֵׁעַ, יֵשׁוּעַ.

Brown–Driver–Briggs

יְהוֹשׁוּעַ, יְהוֹשֻׁעַ, and (later) יֵשׁוּעַ, n.pr.m. (& loc., v. 9 infr.) (י׳ is salvation or י׳ is opulence)
1 Moses’ successor, son of Nun
2 a Bethshemite
3 h.p. after the restoration, son of Jehozadak
4 governor of Jerusalem under Josiah
5 head of one of the classes of priests
6 a Levitical family-name of frequent occurrence
7 father of a builder at the wall
8 a Judaite family-name
9 n.pr.loc. in south of Judah

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.


199 occurrences

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  • Exodus 17:9
    And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.
  • Exodus 17:10
    So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
  • Exodus 17:13
    And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
  • Exodus 17:14
    And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
  • Exodus 24:13
    And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God.
  • Exodus 32:17
    And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.
  • Exodus 33:11
    And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.
  • Numbers 11:28
    And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.
  • Numbers 13:16
    These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.
  • Numbers 14:6
    And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: