Joshua

English

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Etymology

Hebrew [[יהושע#Template:He|יהושע]] (y'hoshúa), “‘Yahweh is salvation’”).

Proper noun

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1. A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh.
2. Template:Biblical character The son of Nun, Judge of Israel following Moses; author of the Book of Joshua.
3. Template:Given name.

Related terms

• Josh.
• Jesus
• Jason

Quotations

• Template:RQ:Authorized Version

  So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.

• 1835 The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds. To Which is Prefixed a Memoir by H.W.Beechey.London:T.Cadell, Strand, page 33:

  "His father had a notion," observes Malone, on the authority of Dr. Percy, Bishop of Dromore, "that it might at some future period of his life be an advantage to a child to bear an uncommon Christian name, - - - Hence our author derived the scriptural name of Joshua, which, though not very uncommon, occurs less frequently than many others." But another biographer has suggested, with more appearance of reason, that it was probably given to him because an uncle, who was one of his godfathers, bore the same name, - - -

Translations

book of the Bible

Danish: Josva da(da) Dutch: Jozua nl(nl) Finnish: Joosua fi(fi) French: Josué fr(fr) German: Josua de(de) Hebrew: יְהוֹשֻׁעַ (yehoshua) Italian: Giosuè it(it) Japanese: ヨシュア記 (yoshua ki)

Korean: 여호수아 ko(ko) (yeohosua) Macedonian: Исус Навин mk(mk) (Ísus Návin) Malayalam: യോശുവ ml(ml) (ISO 15919:Yōśuva) Maltese: Ktieb Ġożwè Norwegian: Josva no(no) Polish: Księga Jozuego pl(pl) f. Slovene: Jozue Spanish: Josué es(es) Swedish: Josua sv(sv)

male given name

French: Josué fr(fr) m. Italian: Giosuè it(it)

Latin: Iosue la(la) m. Polish: Jozue pl(pl) m. Russian: Иисус ru(ru) (Iisús) m. Spanish: Josué es(es)

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