Strong H3442H3442Pיֵשׁוּעַ

Jeshua

One of the 10 senses of Strong H3442

Transliteration
yêshûa‛
Pronunciation
yah-shoo'-ah
Morphology
Proper Name (Masculine) of a Person

Definition

A man of the tribe of Levi living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Ezr.2.2;
son of: Jehozadak (H3087);
father of: Joiakim (H3113); also called Jeshua at Ezr.2.2; 3.2,8; 4.3; 5.2; 1x12.1,7,10,26;
Another name of ye.ho.shu.a (יְהוֹשׁוּעַ "Joshua" H3091J)

Meaning of the name

Jeshua = "he is saved"

General definition

For H3091; he will save;
{Jeshua} the name of two {Israelites} also of a place in Palestine: - Jeshua.

In the biblical story

Joshua

High priest during the rebuilding of the temple

Joshua (or Jeshua), the son of Jehozadak, was the high priest who led the rebuilding of the temple after the Babylonian exile.

In the Bible

Strong H3442P appears in 9 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • jeshua9

First verses

  1. Ezra 2:2
    Which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
  2. Ezra 3:2
    Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.
  3. Ezra 3:8
    Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the Lord.
  4. Ezra 4:3
    But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the Lord God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us.
  5. Nehemiah 7:7
    Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number, I say, of the men of the people of Israel was this;
  6. Nehemiah 12:1
    Now these are the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,
  7. Nehemiah 12:7
    Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.
  8. Nehemiah 12:10
    And Jeshua begat Joiakim, Joiakim also begat Eliashib, and Eliashib begat Joiada,
  9. Nehemiah 12:26
    These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest, the scribe.
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