Jesus's Name

[d0c markus]

This may sound like a dumb question and probably is. Why wasnt Jesus' name Immanuel? And why is it Jesus..


slightly confused but no big deal:

Mark

 

[jons911]

Mark -

Jesus has many names.

Immanuel means "One with us" - symbolic of His coming to live on Earth.

Jon

 

[Sword-In-Hand]

If you take Jesus' English name and go through the translations of how it came to be Jesus, His name appears closer to Joshua more than anything. In Hebrew His name is Yeshua which means "The Lord Shall Save" which is the Greek equivalent to Iesous, so I guess basically you could say that Jesus was not His true name, but through translations of different languages, Jesus was derived.

 

[clinzey]

I guess basically you could say that Jesus was not His true name, but through translations of different languages, Jesus was derived.

Yeah, and it sounds funny to talk about Josh Christ, son of God. And while we're on the name thing, if we hold to ancient customs of family names, Jesus' full name would have been Joshua Josephson. Odd, isn't it?

 

[d0c markus]

hmm.. thanks for the info guys, its been helpful

 

[Polycarp1]

The original name was Yehoshua (Jehoshua in standard English transliteration, which is actually used in the KJV for Joshua in Numbers 13:16 and I Chronicles 7:27 (with a final H in the latter case).

"Clippings" of the initial two syllables produced Y[sup]eh[/sup]oshua and Ye[sup]ho[/sup]shua (Joshua and Jeshua), respectively the name of the son of Nun who was Moses's lieutenant and successor in leading the last phase of the Exodus, and the high priest after the Return from Exile. The latter name is the one which Gabriel indicated was to be the name of Mary's Son (Luke 1:31, Matthew 1:21) and which Mary and Joseph named Him (Matthew 1:25, Luke 2:21 -- BTW, since this naming took place at his circumision on the eighth day of his life, January 1 is celebrated in our church as the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus.)

Adaptation of Hebrew names into Greek often involves the rendering of a final syllable ending in a vowel, with or without an -H, as that vowel followed by an -S. Some older Catholic and Orthodox Bibles, following the Greek, render the first two major prophets as the Books of Isaias and Jeremias for that reason. And John the Baptist's father is in older translations given as Zecharias, even though his name was identical to the minor prophet Zechariah, for the same reason.

Accordingly, Yeshua in Hebrew and Aramaic becomes Iesous in Greek, Jesus (with a vocative case of Jesu) in Late Latin, where the J was adopted in place of I for the Y sound, and Jesus in most continental languages and English (pronounced according to the local custom for a J sound -- it's /YE-sus/ in German, and /hay-SOOS/ in Spanish, even though spelled "Jesus" as in English, the only language to give the /dzh/ phoneme to J to produce our /JEE-zus/ pronunciation. (None of the forms between slashes are intended to ridicule, of course, but to define the sounds made in pronouncing the written name.)

 

[Arnold_Philips]

I'm not certain, but I think Imannuel means "God is with us" and Jesus means "God will save."