Bible Names

Jeshua: meaning of the name

Jeshua means “same as Joshua.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Jeshua in Hebrew and Greek

יֵשׁוּעַ H3442

Yêshûwaʻ (yay-shoo'-ah) — Jeshua, the name of ten Israelites, also of a place in Palestine

for H3091 (יְהוֹשׁוּעַ); he will save;

יֵשׁוּעַ H3443

Yêshûwaʻ (yay-shoo'-ah) — {Jeshua, the name of ten Israelites, also of a place in Palestine}

(Aramaic) corresponding to H3442 (יֵשׁוּעַ)

People named Jeshua in the Bible

Places named Jeshua

Jeshua in Scripture

“Jeshua” appears in 30 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 1 Chronicles 24:11

    The ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah,

  • 2 Chronicles 31:15

    And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small:

  • 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:

  • Ezra 2:6

    The children of Pahath–moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.

  • Ezra 2:36

    The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.

  • Ezra 2:40

    The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four.

  • 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.

  • 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.