The Name Itself
Jehoshuah is an older English transliteration of the Hebrew יְהוֹשֻׁעַ (Yehoshuah), a compound name built from two elements: the divine name YHWH (יהוה), and the verb yasha (יָשַׁע), “to save” or “to deliver.” Read together, the name is usually glossed “Yahweh saves” or “the LORD is salvation.” It is the same name, by a different path of transliteration, that reaches English readers today as Jesus — by way of Hebrew Yehoshua, contracted in later Hebrew and Aramaic to Yeshua, transliterated into Greek as Iesous, into Latin as Iesus, and finally into English.
English translators of earlier centuries — including some renderings of the King James tradition when the name appears for Old Testament bearers — used spellings such as Jehoshuah to keep the connection to the Hebrew visible, rather than substituting the more familiar New Testament form. This site uses that older spelling deliberately, as a way of holding the Old and New Testament bearers of the name, and the single Hebrew word behind both, in view at once.
How This Site Is Organized
Four studies follow, each building on the last: the name's Old Testament foundations, its fulfillment in the New Testament witness to Christ, the theological themes the name carries, and its place in devotional practice. Each page keeps a running margin of notes — etymological, textual, and traditional — set apart from the main body, so that what is directly attested and what is later interpretation stay visibly distinct.