Bible Names

Oshea: meaning of the name

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

Oshea in Hebrew and Greek

הוֹשֵׁעַ H1954

Hôwshêaʻ (ho-shay'-ah) — Hoshea, the name of five Israelites

from H3467 (יָשַׁע); deliverer;

Oshea in Scripture

“Oshea” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • Numbers 13:8

    Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun.

  • Numbers 13:16

    These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.