What does it means "Ixoye"?

Question

Is it an anagram or something like that?

Answer 1

IXOYE = FISH
"Little Fishes"

Among the symbols employed by the early Christians, that of the fish ranks probably first in importance. The earliest literary reference to the symbolic fish is made by Clement of Alexandria, born about 150, who recommends his readers (Paedagogus, III, xi) to have their seals engraved with a dove or a fish. Indeed, from monumental sources we know that the symbolic fish was familiar to Christians long before the famous Alexandrian was born; in such Roman monuments as the Capella Greca and the Sacrament Chapels of the catacomb of St. Callistus, the fish was depicted as a symbol in the first decades. It is known that in the 1st century when Christians were more openly persecuted the simple "fish symbol" could be scratched in the dust with ones staff. Pagans did not recognize it but believers would, thus many an early Christian was able to discern friend from foe.

The symbol itself may have been suggested by the miraculous multiplication of the loaves and fishes or the repast of the seven Disciples, after the Resurrection, on the shore of the Sea of Galilee (John, xxi, 9), but its popularity among Christians was due principally, it would seem, to the famous acrostic consisting of the initial letters of five Greek words forming the word for fish (IXOYE), which words briefly but clearly described the character of Christ and His claim to the worship of believers: Iesous Christos Theou Yios Soter, i.e. Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour. (See the discourse of Emperor Constantine, "Ad coetum Sanctorum" c. xviii.) It is not improbable that this Christian formula originated in Alexandria, and was intended as a protest against the pagan apotheosis of the emperors; on a coin from Alexandria of the reign of Domitian (81-96) this emperor is styled Theou Yios (Son of God).

The word IXOYE, then, as well as the representation of a fish, held for Christians a meaning of the highest significance; it was a brief profession of faith in the divinity of Christ, the Redeemer of mankind. Believers in Jesus were themselves : "little fishes", according to the well-known passage of Tertullian (De baptismo, c. 1): "we, little fishes, after the image of our IXOYE, Jesus Christ, are born in the water". The association of the IXOYE with the Eucharist is strongly emphasized in the epitaph of Abercius, the second century Bishop of Hieropolis in Phrygia, and in the somewhat later epitaph of Pectorius of Autun.

Answer 2

It's a very bad transliteration of the clever acronym used as a moniker by early Christians. I say very bad because attempting to pronounce that would give you something nowhere near "ICK'thays", which is how you say "fish" in Ancient Greek. The actual phrase is: Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, Θεοῦ Υἱός, Σωτήρ, or "Iaysus Kristos, Theou Uios, Sootayr". This means, as several people have pointed out, "Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior".
Unfortunately there is no Latin equivalent for the Greek letter Theta, so doing a one-for-one transliteration for the acronym is a little bit tricky on a QWERTY keyboard.
One would think that "IKTUS" would be more appropriate. This has the added benefit of containing of first letter of each word in the phrase, which is sort of the definition of an acronym. The word "IXOYE" does not actually mean anything, other than that the people who made it up are dimwits. But I suppose that adds something to the esoteric allure of it all.

Answer 3

IXOYE Jesus Christ God's Son, Savior (Greek acronym)

I - iota, the first letter in the Greek word Iesous, meaning Jesus
X - chi, the first letter in the Greek word Christos, meaning Christ
O - theta, the first letter in the Greek word Theos, meaning God
Y - upsilon, the first letter in the Greek word Huios, meaning Son
E - sigma, the first letter in the Greek word Soter, meaning Savior

Answer 4

Ixoye Meaning

Answer 5

It's 'Ichthus' or 'fish' in Greek - it's an acronym that stands for 'Jesus Christ, God's Son, Savior' in Greek.

Answer 6

It's a transliteration of the Greek way to spell 'Jesus'.