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# יֵשׁוּעַ

Biblical Aramaic

**Jeshua** — used 1 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Jeshua [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b5_5e9_5c1_5d5_5bc_5e2_5b7/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יֵשׁוּעַ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b5_5e9_5c1_5d5_5bc_5e2_5b7/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (BH id. 3, p. 221);—Ezr 5:2.

### Jastrow 1903

יֵשׁוּעַ: Jeshua the priestly division of Jeshua [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b5_5e9_5c1_5d5_5bc_5e2_5b7/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** (b. h.) pr. n. m. Jeshua, name of several persons. Yad. III, 5 Bab. ed. (Mish. יהושע). Y. M. Kat. III, 82ᶜ יֵישׁ׳.—Tosef. Ḥull. II, 22; 25; v. יֵשׁוּ. (sub מִשְׁמָר) the priestly division of Jeshua which was the ninth in the order of divisions on duty each week (I Chr. XXIV, 7—18). Pesik. Haomer, p. 69ᵇ; Pesik. R. s. 18; Koh. R. to I, 3; Yalk. Lev. 643 \[read:\] אימתי הן תמימות בזמן שיש י׳ ושכניה ביניהם when are the seven weeks between Passover and Pentecost ‘complete’ (Lev. XXIII, 15), i.e. beginning and ending with the week? When the divisions of J. and Shekhania are between them, i.e. when there are ten Sabbaths between the first of the month of Nisan on the first Sabbath of which the turn commences, and the sixth of Sivan. Jeshua (redemption), a disguise for פִּדְיוֹן; v. בֵּן. B. Kam. 80ᵃ

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (16 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Jeshua (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 5:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.2/#tree)

בֵּאדַ֡יִן קָ֠מוּ זְרֻבָּבֶ֤ל בַּר־שְׁאַלְתִּיאֵל֙ וְיֵשׁ֣וּעַ בַּר־יֽוֹצָדָ֔ק וְשָׁרִ֣יו לְמִבְנֵ֔א בֵּ֥ית אֱלָהָ֖א דִּ֣י בִירֽוּשְׁלֶ֑ם וְעִמְּה֛וֹן נְבִיַּיָּ֥א דִֽי־אֱלָהָ֖א מְסָעֲדִ֥ין לְהֽוֹן׃פ

*Word for word:* then they.arose Zerubbabel the.son of.Shealtiel and Jeshua the.son of.Jozadak and they.began to build the.house of.(the) God which \[is\].in Jerusalem and.\[were\] with them the prophets (diy).of (the) God supporting (et) them

*JPS 1917:* Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem; and with them were the prophets of God, helping them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d9_5b5_5e9_5c1_5d5_5bc_5e2_5b7.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b5_5e9_5c1_5d5_5bc_5e2_5b7/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).