yehoshua · Joshua

What it means

yehoshua (יְהוֹשׁוּעַ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Joshua”.

The helper and successor of Moses. The name means "YHWH saves"; in Greek it is the same name as "Jesus". Other men bore it, among them the high priest after the exile (Haggai 1:1).

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×7
• Numbers×11
• Deuteronomy×9
• Joshua×168
• Judges×7
• 1 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Haggai×5
• Zechariah×6

• Exodus 17:9

  Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us, and go out, fight against Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of Elohim in my hand.”

• Exodus 17:10

  Joshua did as Moses told him, to fight against Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.

• Exodus 17:13

  And Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

• Exodus 17:14

  YHWH said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book, and put it in the hearing of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.”

• Exodus 24:13

  Moses rose, with Joshua his attendant, and Moses went up to the mountain of Elohim.

• Exodus 32:17

  When Joshua heard the sound of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is a sound of war in the camp.”

• Exodus 33:11

  And YHWH would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his companion. Then he would return to the camp, but his assistant Joshua son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from inside the tent.

• Numbers 11:28

  And Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ assistant from his youth, answered and said, “My lord Moses, stop them.”

• Numbers 13:16

  These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to explore the land. And Moses called Hoshea son of Nun Joshua.

• Numbers 14:6

  And Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had explored the land, tore their clothes

• Numbers 14:30

  you shall not come into the land where I raised my hand to settle you in it, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

• Numbers 14:38

  But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive of those men who went to explore the land.

• Numbers 26:65

  For YHWH had said of them, “They shall surely die in the wilderness.” And there was not left a man of them except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

• Numbers 27:18

  YHWH said to Moses, “Take for yourself Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom there is the spirit, and lay your hand on him.

• Numbers 27:22

  Moses did as YHWH had commanded him; he took Joshua and set him before Eleazar the priest and before the whole community.

• Numbers 32:12

  except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun, for they have fully followed YHWH.’

• Numbers 32:28

  So Moses gave orders concerning them to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua son of Nun and to the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the sons of Israel.

• Numbers 34:17

  “These are the names of the men who shall apportion as inheritance the land to you: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun.

• Deuteronomy 1:38

  Joshua son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in there. Strengthen him, for he will make Israel inherit it.

• Deuteronomy 3:21

  And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, “Your eyes are the ones that have seen all that YHWH your Elohim has done to these two kings. So YHWH will do to all the kingdoms into which you are crossing.

• Deuteronomy 3:28

  And command Joshua, and strengthen him and make him firm, for he shall cross over before this people, and he shall make them inherit the land that you will see.”

• Deuteronomy 31:3

  YHWH your Elohim, he is crossing over before you; he will destroy these nations from before you, and you will dispossess them. Joshua, he is crossing over before you, as YHWH has spoken.

• Deuteronomy 31:7

  And Moses called Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and firm, for you will go with this people into the land that YHWH swore to their fathers to give them, and you will cause them to inherit it.

• Deuteronomy 31:14

  And YHWH said to Moses, “Look, your days have drawn near for dying. Call Joshua and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, so that I may commission him.” And Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tent of meeting.

• Deuteronomy 31:23

  And he commanded Joshua son of Nun and said, “Be strong and firm, for you will bring the sons of Israel into the land that I swore to them, and I will be with you.”

• Deuteronomy 34:9

  And Joshua son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him; and the sons of Israel listened to him and did as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Joshua 1:1

  And it came about after the death of Moses the servant of YHWH, that YHWH said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ assistant:

• Joshua 1:10

  Then Joshua commanded the supervisors of the people, saying,

• Joshua 1:12

  And to the Reubenite, to the Gadite, and to half the tribe of Manasseh Joshua said,

• Joshua 1:16

  They answered Joshua, saying, “All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.

• Joshua 2:1

  Then Joshua son of Nun sent from Shittim two men as spies secretly, saying, “Go, see the land and Jericho.” So they went and came to the house of a woman, a prostitute, whose name was Rahab, and they lay down there.

• Joshua 2:23

  Then the two men returned and came down from the hill country and crossed over and came to Joshua son of Nun, and they told him all that had happened to them.

• Joshua 2:24

  And they said to Joshua, “YHWH has given into our hand all the land; and also all the inhabitants of the land have melted away before us.”

• Joshua 3:1

  Joshua rose early in the morning, and they set out from Shittim and came to the Jordan, he and all the sons of Israel, and they spent the night there before they crossed.

• Joshua 3:5

  Then Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow YHWH will do wonders among you.”

• Joshua 3:6

  And Joshua said to the priests, “Carry the ark of the covenant and pass on before the people.” So they carried the ark of the covenant and went before the people.

• Joshua 3:7

  YHWH said to Joshua, “This day I will begin to make you great in the eyes of all Israel, so that they may know that just as I was with Moses, I will be with you.

• Joshua 3:9

  And Joshua said to the sons of Israel, “Come near here and listen to the words of YHWH your Elohim.”

• Joshua 3:10

  And Joshua said, “By this you shall know that a living El is among you, and that he will certainly dispossess from before you the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Hivite, the Perizzite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, and the Jebusite.

• Joshua 4:1

  And it came about, when all the nation had finished crossing the Jordan, that YHWH said to Joshua,

And 178 more times.