Transliteration: yêshûa‛

Phonetic: yay-shoo'-ah

BDB Definition:

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 (noun proper masculine)
2. son of Jehozadak and high priest after the restoration (noun proper masculine)
3. a priest in the time of David who had charge of the 9th course (noun proper masculine)
4. a Levite in the reign of Hezekiah (noun proper masculine)
5. head of a Levitical house which returned from captivity in Babylon (noun proper masculine)
6. father of a builder of the wall of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah (noun proper masculine)
7. a town in southern Judah reinhabited by the people of Judah after the return from captivity (noun proper locative)

Origin: for H3091" class="dictionary-topic-link">H3091

TWOT entry: None

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