mercy# Church girl :
The confusion comes from the Language translation.Therefore, while "Jesus" is the name we commonly use, it's a translation and adaptation of the original Hebrew name, Yeshua. The closest transliteration would be something like Yeshua, yes. But language is complicated. The reason we say "Jesus" is that it went through several languages before arriving at English. It's not really a problem, we know who we're talking about, and it's not like the pronunciation of the name is what's important about his story.In English? Joshua. Jesus is weird and unique case of bad translation. Yeshua (יֵשׁוּעַ ) would be his name in Aramaic, which is what he would have spoken. That name itself would be a shortened version of the older Hebrew Yehoshua (יְהוֹשֻׁעַ ). Most people back then worked not have had last names, so he may have been known as either "son of Joseph", or by his home town, "of Nazareth".
What makes the name Jesus unique is how it got to languages like English. The New Testament was written in Koine Greek, and his name was transliterated to Iesous (since there isn't a an actual equivalent of Yeshua in Greek). It was then transliterated again to Latin, with the spelling changing as the language did. Then English translations took the name from either Greek or Latin (though both were pretty similar).
However, Yeshua has a direct translation into English without the extra steps in the middle, namely Joshua. And Jesus is unique as a name since every other name in the NT is a direct translation. For instance, Jesus's adoptive dad would not have called himself Joseph. His name in Aramaic would be Yosef (יוֹסֵף ). Am from africa(uganda) and in my local Language we call (yeshua/Jesus) yesu. it's still the same name but because of different Language translation. The writing change s and the letters but still means the same name. same name, different pronounce/translation but original meaning. Jesus is God and our God is the God of all Languages. it doesn't matter if you're white or black,from which country/ language. God doesn't discriminate people/ or languages.
2025-07-11 19:13:58