Josh

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Short form of JOSHUA.

JOSHUA   male   English, Biblical
From the Hebrew name יְהוֹשֻׁעַ (Yehoshu'a) meaning "YAHWEH is salvation". As told in the Old Testament, Joshua was a companion of Moses. He went up Mount Sinai with Moses when he received the Ten Commandments from God, and later he was one of the twelve spies sent into Canaan. After Moses died Joshua succeeded him as leader of the Israelites and he led the conquest of Canaan. His original name was Hoshea.

The name Jesus comes from a Greek translation of the Aramaic short form יֵשׁוּעַ (Yeshu'a), which was the real name of Jesus. As an English name, Joshua has been in use since the Protestant Reformation.
YAHWEH   male   Theology
A name of the Hebrew God, represented in Hebrew by the tetragrammaton ("four letters") יהוה (Yod Heh Vav Heh), which was transliterated into Roman script as Y H W H. Because it was considered blasphemous to utter the name of God, it was only written and never spoken, which resulted in the original pronunciation becoming lost. The name may have originally been derived from the old Semitic root הוה (hawah) meaning "to be" or "to become".
FULL FORMS
ENGLISH: Joshua
EQUIVALENTS
ANCIENT ARAMAIC: Yeshua
ARABIC: Essa, Isa, Issa, Yushua
BASQUE: Josu
BIBLICAL GREEK: Iesous
BIBLICAL HEBREW: Yehoshua, Yeshua
BIBLICAL LATIN: Iesus, Iosue
BIBLICAL: Jesus, Joshua
DUTCH: Jozua
FRENCH: Josué
GALICIAN: Xesús
HAWAIIAN: Iokua
HEBREW: Yehoshua
HUNGARIAN: Józsua
ITALIAN: Giosuè
PORTUGUESE: Josué
SPANISH: Chucho, Chus, Chuy, Jesús, Josué
THEOLOGY: Jesus
TURKISH: İsa
FEMININE FORMS
BASQUE: Josune
SPANISH: Chus, Jesusa
OTHER FORMS
SCOTTISH: Maoilios
THEOLOGY: Yahweh