''Jesus'' isn't an Aramaic, Arabic or Hebrew name, is it? So where did it come from? And what do you think His original name might have been?
2006-07-13 14:48:31 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yeshua is the original Aramaic proper name for Jesus the Nazarene, who lived from about 6 B.C.E. to 27 C.E. (A.D.) The word "Jesus" is actually a mis-transliteration of a Greek mis-transliteration. The Emperor Constatine even mistook Jesus for Apollo, the son of the Greek god Zeus. In Hebrew Yeshua means Salvation while the name Jesus has no intrinsic meaning in English whatsoever.
2006-07-13 14:51:09 · answer #1 · answered by Starry 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Jesus is the name given to the physical body(born in nazerith)of mary and Jeosph and the holy spirt.
the bible gives the full name as Jesus" the Christ". as in savior of the jewish people.
2006-07-13 22:01:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Felix,
"Jesus" is the romanized version, of the greek version of the Christ's earthly name. An approximate version of His hebrew name, is Yeshua Ben Yoseph, or Yeshua.
2006-07-13 21:54:48 · answer #3 · answered by Will O' the Wisp 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Proof his name was Yahshua one doesn't have to guess in this great age of archaeological finds, you just have to be able to read hebrew....Aramaic, and most of the names had Yah in them because of what they meant for example Yahshua Messiah or Yahweh is salvation
2006-07-13 21:54:17 · answer #4 · answered by big boi 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Bobbi and seer1213 are correct. A better question would be, why was Jesus called Christ? Christ is a title, not a name, and its literal translation is "the anointed one".
2006-07-13 21:52:12 · answer #5 · answered by MOM KNOWS EVERYTHING 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Actually, he was born Joshua beth David, of the house of David. The Angel that came down declared that his name be 'Emmanuel'. Basically, though, 'Jesus' is a variant of Joshua, and Christ is just from the greek 'kristos' for light.
2006-07-13 21:55:06 · answer #6 · answered by Asuza 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Name "Jesus" has a Hebrew root which is "Yeshua" which in English means "Joshua" (Luke 1:31-33)
2006-07-13 21:55:11 · answer #7 · answered by chloeanne17 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually Jesus was his name. "Christ" is the translation of the Greek kurios which means "Lord."
In Greek, Jesus is Iesous. In Hebrew, it is Yeshua, a form of the name Joshua, which means "help of YHVH"
2006-07-13 21:53:38 · answer #8 · answered by Ponderingwisdom 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know exactly why Jesus is called christ. The bible says he the son of man. The name probably was jewish, being that he was a jew. His original name was Joshua ben Joseph
2006-07-13 21:54:24 · answer #9 · answered by sash 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Jesus is the english spelling of the word saviour in hebrew.
2006-07-13 21:51:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋