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Many names in Hebrew were formed around the name YHWH (Yahwéh) and its abbreviations YH and YHW. The name, Isaiah is a Hebrew to Greek to English transliteration of Yeshayahu abbreviated to Yeshayah. The name Joshua is an English transliteration of Y ǝ hoshúa and can be seen in these two words: Yahwéh-Yeshuát.
In the Dead Sea Scrolls and other Hebrew and Aramaic texts the Tetragrammaton and some other names of God in Judaism (such as El or Elohim) were sometimes written in paleo-Hebrew script, showing that they were treated specially. Most of God's names were pronounced until about the 2nd century BCE.
1 kwi 2017 · Ancient or Paleo Hebrew Explanation of the letters in the word Yeshua, Yeshuah or Salvation.
(Interestingly, at the time of Jesus, the Paleo-Hebrew characters were used to write in Aramaic!). Yeshua was the Aramaic version of the Hebrew name Yehoshua (Joshua), and means “Yahweh saves.” By the time of Nehemiah, Joshua was known as Yeshua, the son of Nun (see Nehemiah 8:17, KJV).
The Paleo-Hebrew script (Hebrew: הכתב העברי הקדום), also Palaeo-Hebrew, Proto-Hebrew or Old Hebrew, is the writing system found in Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions, including pre-Biblical and Biblical Hebrew, from southern Canaan, also known as the biblical kingdoms of Israel (Samaria) and Judah.
The Hebrew Bible (called the TaNaKh by Jews and the Old Testament by Christians) was originally written in this pictographic Hebrew script (as well as a modified form usually referred to as Paleo-Hebrew) by Hebrews whose language and culture were very different from our own.
Sacred Name Bible. Excerpt from the Halleluyah Scriptures, a Sacred Name Bible that uses the Paleo-Hebrew script for some divine names and Yeshayahu for "Isaiah". Sacred Name Bibles are Bible translations that consistently use Hebraic forms of the God of Israel 's personal name, instead of its English language translation, in both the Old and ...
