IsYeshua Hamashiachthe proper Hebrew name/title for Jesus Christ?

Answered from the commentary of Edward Dennett, Morrish Bible Dictionary and J. B. Jackson

Yes. Yeshua Hamashiach is a proper Hebrew form meaning “Jesus the Messiah”: Yeshua (Joshua/Jehoshua) means “Jehovah is salvation,” and Hamashiach means “the Anointed One,” equivalent to “the Christ.” The passages support the name and title’s meaning, though they do not specifically discuss the combined wording “Yeshua Hamashiach.”

Verses: Matthew 1:21, Luke 1:31, John 1:41, John 4:25, Acts 2:36, Acts 4:10, Acts 4:11, Acts 4:12

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Edward DennettThe Name Above Every Name

This will be very clearly seen by a consideration of the meaning of the name Jesus, which Joseph was instructed to give to the Child when He should be born. As may be seen from Hebrews 4:8, Jesus is the Greek form of Joshua, or Jehoshua, which signifies "Jehovah is salvation," or "whose salvation is Jehovah." There is therefore ample justification for the common observation that the name Jesus means Jehovah the Saviour. If so, what a subject for contemplation, yea, and for adoration, is thus brought before our souls! A child born into the world, of lowly parentage in man's esteem, is declared, divinely declared, to be Jehovah the Saviour! Yes, the God who heard the groaning of His people Israel in Egypt, who saw their affliction, heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters, knew their sorrows, and came down to redeem them out of Egypt, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; He who said unto Moses, "I am JEHOVAH: and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by [the name of] God Almighty, but by My name JEHOVAH was I not known to them" (Ex. 3:6-8; Ex. 6:2-3); it was He, the same God, the same Jehovah, the El Shaddai known to the patriarchs, who now came into this world as a Babe. But if a Babe, He came, blessed be His name for ever, as the Saviour of His people. Surely we may say that the shadows were fleeing away, and that the darkness, which had hitherto shrouded God from His people, was fast disappearing. It was indeed the blessed dawn of the day of grace.

J. B. JacksonA Dictionary of Proper Bible Names

Jes’u run same as Jeshurun

Je’sus - Greek form of Jehoshua

J. B. JacksonA Dictionary of Proper Bible Names

Jesh’u a - He will save: Jehovah is salvation

Jesh’u ah He will save: Jehovah is salvation

A. J. Pollock“Holy and Reverend is His Name”

This name was divinely given to our Lord in relation to His manhood. But what a glorious name it is! Other names may indicate His position and offices, but the name Jesus is personal to Himself. It is composed of two Hebrew words—Jah, a contraction of His wonderful name Jehovah, the self-existent God in covenant blessing in relation to His people, coupled with Hoshea or Joshua, meaning Saviour. Truly a wonderful name for us to contemplate—Jesus (Jehovah-Saviour).

J. N. DarbyReadings on Joshua - 1

Yes. In Isaiah 6, the prophet says, "Mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD [Jehovah] of Hosts," and in John 12:41, after quoting Isaiah's words, we read, "These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him"; the quotation is applied to Christ, shewing thus that He is the One whose glory Isaiah saw. Again, in Hebrews 12, it says, "Whose voice then shook the earth," but that is the One that "speaketh from heaven." And the name "Jesus" is "Jehovah-Saviour" contracted.

J. N. DarbyThe Deity of Christ and what constitutes Christianity;

His name is called Jesus - Jehoshua, that is, Jehovah the Saviour, for He shall save His people - who, and whose people, in connection with the explanation of such a name? Christ is the Jehovah of the Old Testament. Thus John 12, Isaiah saw His glory, and spoke of Him, quoting Isaiah 6. Whose glory was seen there? Jehovah of hosts.

Arno Clemens GaebeleinThe Gospel of Matthew (part 1)

The word Jesus is taken from the Hebrew Jehoshua, which means, Jehovah is the Saviour. It is the precious name in which the whole story of salvation is contained. The people of Jehovah are His people, because He is Jehovah, and left His eternal glory, His riches, and became poor, to save them from their sins. When Moses stood in the presence of this descended Lord, who proclaimed before him the name of the Lord, Moses said, "If now I have found grace in Thy sight, O Lord," saying this looking to heaven, "let my Lord," the One who had come down and stood before him, "I pray thee go among us; for it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquities and our sin, and take us for Thine inheritance." (Exodus 34:9.). And He has come, Jesus, who is able to save His people from their sins, because He is God, and gracious, as revealed to Moses in the mountain. They rejected Him and His salvation. They are scattered among the nations, blinded and hardened, but He is nevertheless Jesus who shall save His people. He has bought the field and the treasure in it. He will come again and turn away ungodliness from Jacob and remember their sins no more. Yes, He will come again and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David, and He shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever. Saul of Tarsus heard the voice from heaven, which said, "I am Jesus!" It is very significant that He spoke thus to the one who became the apostle to the Gentiles, and who in many respects is a type of the whole nation in unbelief and in their coming conversion. He saved Saul of Tarsus. He will save all Israel yet. For believers, His name is not simply Jesus, but for us, the church, He is both Saviour and Lord, and the right way to address Him is by His full name, as it is by the resurrection from among the dead, our Lord Jesus Christ.

The Christian's Friend"Thou Shalt Call His Name Jesus"

This will be very clearly seen by a consideration of the meaning of the name Jesus, which Joseph was instructed to give to the Child when He should be born. As may be seen from Hebrews 4:8, Jesus is the Greek form of Joshua, or Jehoshua, which signifies "Jehovah is salvation," or "whose salvation is Jehovah." There is therefore ample justification for the common observation that the name Jesus means Jehovah the Saviour. But if so, what a subject for contemplation, yea, and for adoration, is thus brought before our souls! A child born into the world, of lowly parentage in man's esteem, is declared, divinely declared, to be Jehovah the Saviour! Yes, the God who heard the groaning of His people Israel in Egypt, who saw their affliction, heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters, knew their sorrows, and came down to redeem them out of Egypt, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; He who said unto Moses, "I am JEHOVAH: and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by [the name of] God Almighty, but by My name JEHOVAH was I not known to them" (Exodus 3:6-8; 6:2-3); it was He, the same God, the same Jehovah, the El Shaddai known to the patriarchs, who now came into this world as a Babe. But if a Babe, He came, blessed be His name for ever, as the Saviour of His people. Surely we may say that the shadows were fleeing away, and that the darkness which had hitherto shrouded God from His people was fast disappearing. It was indeed the blessed dawn of the day of grace.

J. N. DarbyWhat do I learn from Scripture?

16 Matt. 1:21. The word Christ or Messiah means anointed, and Jesus or Joshua, Jehovah or Jah the Saviour.

Walter ScottIntroduction and Glorious Vision of Christ

Rev. 1:5. — “Jesus Christ” is next mentioned, uniting with Jehovah and the Spirit in saluting the saints. In the combination of Name and title is intimated the union of manhood and glory (Acts 2:36). “Jesus” is composed of two syllables, signifying Jehovah-saving (Matt. 1:21). It was a Name given Him before His birth, and one which exactly describes His Person and work. The greatest of all Names, the Name par excellence, is that of Jesus (Phil. 2:9-11). It occurs upwards of 600 times in the New Testament, and is never prefixed by an adjective; nor was the Lord ever, save by demons, directly addressed as Jesus. The Name “Jesus” occurs in the Apocalypse nine times, and in combination with Christ three times. Christ (Greek) and Messiah (Hebrew) both mean the anointed as in Psalm 2, etc.

Verses

  • Matthew 1:21And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.
  • Luke 1:31and behold, thou shalt conceive in the womb and bear a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus.
  • John 1:41He first finds his own brother Simon, and says to him, We have found the Messias (which being interpreted is Christ).
  • John 4:25The woman says to him, I know that Messias is coming, who is called Christ; when he comes he will tell us all things.
  • Acts 2:36Let the whole house of Israel therefore know assuredly that God has made him, this Jesus whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
  • Acts 4:10–1210be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazaraean, whom ye have crucified, whom God has raised from among [the] dead, by him this [man] stands here before you sound [in body]. 11He is the stone which has been set at nought by you the builders, which is become the corner stone. 12And salvation is in none other, for neither is there another name under heaven which is given among men by which we must be saved.