The Origin of the name 'Jesus'
The English name
Jesus is derived from the Classical Latin
IESVS which appeared on the titulus/placard on the Messiah's Cross on Good Friday April 7, 30 AD (7/4/783 AUC). At that time, there were no small letters in Latin nor was there the letter J or U.
IESVS was the Classical Latin form of the Greek
Iesous, which in turn is the transliteration of the Aramaic/Hebrew
Yeshua/Y'shua/Jeshua, or
Joshua, or again
Jehoshua, meaning "YHWH/Yehowah (Yahweh/Jehovah) is salvation." Later, when the letter U and small letters were introduced to Latin,
Iesus became the spelling.
Though the name in one form or another occurs frequently in the Old Testament, it first appears in
Numbers 13:16 when Moses renamed Hoshea the son of Nun to
Josue/Joshua who would lead the Israelites to cross the River Jordan into the
Promised Land. The name was not born by a person of prominence between the time of Joshua the successor to Moses and Josue/Joshua the son of Jozadak the high priest in the days of Zerubbabel and the building of the 2nd Temple (
Ezra 5:2). It was also the name of the author of
Ecclesiaticus, of one of the Christ's ancestors mentioned in his genealogy, found in the Third Gospel (
Luke 3:29), and one of Paul's companions (
Colossians 4:11). During the Hellenizing period,
Jason, a purely Greek analogon of Jesus, appears to have been adopted by many (
1 Maccabees 8:17; 12:16; 14:22; 2 Maccabees 1:7; 2:24; 4:7-26; 5:5-10; Acts 17:5-9; Romans 16:21).
The Greek name is connected with the verb
iasthai: to heal; it is therefore, not surprising that some of the Greek Church Fathers allied the name Jesus with the same root (Eusebius, "Dem. Ev.", IV; cf.
Acts 9:34; 10:38). Though about the time of the Christ the name
Y'shua appears to have been fairly common (Josephus, "Ant.", XV, ix, 2; XVII, xiii, 1; XX, ix, 1; "Bel. Jud.", III, ix, 7; IV, iii, 9; VI, v, 5; "Vit.", 22) it was imposed on the Lord by GOD's express order (
Luke 1:31; Matthew 1:21), to foreshow that the child was destined to "save his people from their sins." Philo ("De Mutt. Nom.", 21) is therefore, right when he explains
Iesous as meaning
soteria kyrion; Eusebius (Dem., Ev., IV, ad fin.; P.G., XXII, 333) gives the meaning Theou soterion; while St. Cyril of Jerusalem interprets the word as equivalent to soter (Catechetical Lectures X. 13). This last writer, however, appears to agree with Clement of Alexandria in considering Iesous to be of Greek origin (The Pedagogue III. 12); St. Chrysostom emphasizes again the Hebrew derivation of the name and its meaning soter (Homily 2 on Matthew, No. 2), thus agreeing with the exegesis of the angel speaking to St. Joseph (
Matthew 1:21).
Note: That by using
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74ions align between
74 the following...
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