Joshua (1) 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 in Deuteronomy 3:21, Judges 2:7; elsewhere the form
(b), except in Nehemiah 8:17, where it is of the form yeshua` (See JESHUA); compare also Numbers 13:8, Numbers 13:16, Deuteronomy 32:44. See following article.
(2) In 1 Samuel 6:14, 1 Samuel 6:18 (form (b)), the Bethshemite in whose field stood the kine that brought the ark from the Philistines.
(3) In 2 Kings 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