Strong's H3470 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: יְשַׁעְיָה (Yᵉshaʻyâh)

Pronunciation: yesh-ah-yaw'

Morphology: n-pr-m

Name Meaning: Isaiah or Jesaiah or Jeshaiah = "Jehovah has saved"

Derivation: or יְשַׁעְיָהוּ (Yᵉshaʻyâhûw); from יָשַׁע (yâshaʻ) [H3467] and יָהּ (Yâhh) [H3050]; Jah has saved;

Definition: Jeshajah, the name of seven Israelites

KJV Renderings: Isaiah, Jesaiah, Jeshaiah.

Senses

1. the major prophet, son of Amoz, who prophesied concerning Judah and Jerusalem during the days of kings Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah of Judah; author of the prophetic book by his name; tradition has it that he was sawn asunder in the trunk of a carob tree by king Manasseh and that this is the incident referred to in Heb 11:37
2. son of Hananiah, brother of Pelatiah, and grandson of Zerubbabel
3. a Benjamite
4. one of the 6 sons of Jeduthun
5. son of Rehabiah, a descendant of Moses through Gershom, and an ancestor of a Levite treasurer in the time of David
6. son of Athaliah and chief of the house of Elam who returned with Ezra
7. a chief of the descendants of Merari who returned with Ezra

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.