Strong's H3442 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: יֵשׁוּעַ (Yêshûwaʻ)

Pronunciation: yay-shoo'-ah

Morphology: n-pr-m n-pr-loc

Part of Speech: n pr m, n pr loc

Name Meaning: Jeshua = "he is saved"

Derivation: for יְהוֹשׁוּעַ (Yᵉhôwshûwaʻ) [H3091]; he will save;

Definition: Jeshua, the name of ten Israelites, also of a place in Palestine

KJV Renderings: Jeshua.

Senses

1. son of Nun of the tribe of Ephraim and successor to Moses as the leader of the children of Israel; led the conquest of Canaan
2. son of Jehozadak and high priest after the restoration
3. a priest in the time of David who had charge of the 9th course
4. a Levite in the reign of Hezekiah
5. head of a Levitical house which returned from captivity in Babylon
6. father of a builder of the wall of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah
7. a town in southern Judah reinhabited by the people of Judah after the return from captivity

Cross References

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.