josh'-u-a
(a) yehoshua`,
(b) yehoshua`, "Yahweh is deliverance" or "opulence"; compare JESHUA; Iesous:
(1) Joshua the son of Nun; the name has the Hebrew form
(a) above inDe 3:21;Jud 2:7; elsewhere the form
(b), except inNe 8:17, where it is of the form yeshua` (See JESHUA); compare alsoNu 13:8,16;De 32:44. See following article.
(2) In1Sa 6:14,18(form (b)), the Bethshemite in whose field stood the kine that brought the ark from the Philistines.
(3) In2Ki 23:8(form (b)), governor of Jerusalem in the time of Josiah.
(4) The high priest at Jerusalem after the return. See separate article.
S. F. Hunter