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יְהוֹשׁוּעַ

Yehoshua

yeh-ho-shoo'-ah

Strong's 1890 spelling: Yᵉhôwshûwaʻ

Jehoshua (i.e. Joshua), the Jewish leader

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

Jehoshua (i.e. Joshua), the Jewish leader

Rendered in the KJV as

Jehoshua, Jehoshuah, Joshua. Compare H1954 (הוֹשֵׁעַ), H3442 (יֵשׁוּעַ).

  • 218
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 11 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 36
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 218 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 36

  • יְהוֹשֻׁ֖עַ27
  • יְהוֹשֻׁ֔עַ26
  • יְהוֹשֻׁ֙עַ֙23
  • יְהוֹשֻׁ֜עַ21
  • יְהוֹשֻׁ֛עַ18
  • יְהוֹשֻׁ֑עַ12
  • יְהוֹשֻׁ֗עַ11
  • יְהוֹשֻׁ֣עַ10
  • יְהוֹשֻׁ֤עַ9
  • יְהוֹשֻׁ֥עַ7
  • וִיהוֹשֻׁ֣עַ6
  • וִיהוֹשֻׁ֖עַ5

and 24 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 5

  • Joshua194
  • and Joshua17
  • to Joshua4
  • O Joshua2
  • in Joshua1

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 3

  • proper noun (a name)196
  • conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)17
  • preposition + proper noun (a name)5
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNpm · 196
  • HC/Npm · 17
  • HR/Npm · 5

All 218, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Joshua carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Exodus7 occurrences
Numbers11 occurrences
Deuteronomy9 occurrences
Joshua168 occurrences
Judges7 occurrences
1 Samuel2 occurrences
1 Kings1 occurrence
2 Kings1 occurrence
1 Chronicles1 occurrence
Haggai5 occurrences
Zechariah6 occurrences

The curated web

Trails through this word

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).