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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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  • Joshua 24:24
    And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.
  • Joshua 24:25
    So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
  • Joshua 24:26
    And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.
  • Joshua 24:27
    And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.
  • Joshua 24:28
    So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.
  • Joshua 24:29
    And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
  • Joshua 24:31
    And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.
  • Judges 1:1
    Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?
  • Judges 2:6
    And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.
  • Judges 2:7
    And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD, that he did for Israel.