Names of Jesus

title for Jesus

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designations for Jesus used in the New Testament

thumb|"Yeshua" ישוע , a Hebrew name written with the letters yod-shin-vav-`ayin of the Hebrew alphabet.|class=skin-invert-image Yeshua () was a common alternative form of the name Yehoshua () in later books of the Hebrew Bible and among Jewish people of the Second Temple period. The name corresponds to the Greek spelling (), from which, through the Latin /, comes the English spelling Jesus, with J as the /dʒ/ sound.

male given name

Yeshu (Hebrew: Yēšū)) thumb|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Ajron Bach-Yeshu (noun) is the name of possibly one individual or numerous separate individuals mentioned in rabbinic literature. The name is thought by some to refer to Jesus when used in the Talmud. The name Yeshu is also used in other sources before and after the completion of the Babylonian Talmud. It is also the modern Israeli spelling of Jesus.

type of devotion that developed in the Early Modern period

thumb|"A Rosicrucian Crucifixion" showing the five Hebrew letters of the "Pentagrammaton" in the hexagram The pentagrammaton () or Yahshuah () is an allegorical form of the Hebrew name of Jesus, constructed from the Biblical Hebrew form of the name, Yeshua (a Hebrew form of Joshua), but altered so as to contain the letters of the Tetragrammaton. Originally found in the works of Henry Cornelius Agrippa (1531), Athanasius Kircher, Johann Baptist Grossschedel (1619) and other late Renaissance esoteric sources.

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