What is salvation in Hebrew?
Answered from the commentary of Arend Remmers, J. B. Jackson and Arno Clemens Gaebelein
In Hebrew, *salvation* is *yeshu‘ah* (also written *jeshu‘a* or *jesha*), meaning deliverance or salvation; *teshu‘ah* is another Hebrew word for salvation or deliverance. It comes from the sense “to save,” and the name *Yeshua* means “He will save” or “Jehovah is salvation”. This is why the name Joshua—and the Hebrew name from which Jesus comes—carries the meaning “Jehovah is salvation”.
Verses: Psalms 27:1, Psalms 62:1, Psalms 62:2, Isaiah 12:2, Jonah 2:9, Matthew 1:21, Luke 2:30, John 4:22, Acts 4:12, Romans 1:16, Ephesians 2:8, Ephesians 2:9
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Jesh’u a - He will save: Jehovah is salvation
Jesh’u ah He will save: Jehovah is salvation
A further key word of the book of Isaiah is the word "salvation" or "deliverance" (Hebr. jeschu'a or jescha or teschu'a, wherefrom the name Je(ho)schua, Joshua = Greek: Jesus, is derived). The word is found in Is. 12:2,3 (Wells of salvation); 17:10 (God of thy salvation); 25:9 (Joy in his salvation); 26:1 (Salvation for walls and bulwarks); 26:18; 33:2.6; 45:8.17 (Everlasting salvation): 46:13; 49:6.8 (Day of salvation); 51:5.6.8; 52:7 (Publisher of salvation); 52:10: 56:1; 59:11.17 (Helmet of salvation); 60:18; 61:10 (Garments of salvation); 62:1.11.
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 meaning of the name of "Jesus" is deep — "Jehovah a Saviour," and faith lays hold of those glories as being His: personally JEHOVAH, — in action, the SAVIOUR. Yet the name (as we see in Acts 7:45, and Heb. 4:8) was a name not uncommon among the Jews, but rather one of their national ones — "Joshua."
The name of Hosea means "help, salvation." It was the original name of Israel's leader into the land of Canaan, which by the addition to it of the covenant-name of God became "Jehoshua." We are familiar with another prophet, with a name similar in meaning, and it is instructive to compare in this respect Isaiah, or even Joshua, and Hosea.
Ho she’a - To save - same as Hosea
Je hosh’u a - Jehovah is salvation
Je hosh’u ah Jehovah is salvation
I’shi (2) - My salvation
Isaiah, salvation of the Lord.
Jehovah Saviour
Verses
- Psalms 27:1([A Psalm] of David.) Jehovah is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? Jehovah is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
- Psalms 62:1–21(To the chief Musician. On Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.) Upon God alone doth my soul rest peacefully; from him is my salvation. 2He only is my rock and my salvation; my high fortress I shall not be greatly moved.
- Isaiah 12:2Behold, God is my salvation I will trust, and not be afraid; for Jah, Jehovah, is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation.
- Jonah 2:9But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation is of Jehovah.
- 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 2:30for mine eyes have seen thy salvation,
- John 4:22Ye worship ye know not what; we worship what we know, for salvation is of the Jews.