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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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  • Judges 2:8
    And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
  • Judges 2:21
    I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
  • Judges 2:23
    Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.
  • 1 Samuel 6:14
    And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Bethshemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the LORD.
  • 1 Samuel 6:18
    And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the LORD: which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.
  • 1 Kings 16:34
    In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.
  • 2 Kings 23:8
    And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
  • 1 Chronicles 7:27
    Non his son, Jehoshua his son.
  • Haggai 1:1
    In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,
  • Haggai 1:12
    Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD.