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Hebrew and Greek Without Learning Either
A walk through Genesis, the Psalms, and John, plus the key Hebrew and Greek words worth knowing. Each card is a place the English Bibles part company, and what in the Hebrew or Greek made them.
yasha
To save, deliver, rescue. The root behind the names Joshua and Jesus.
Exodus 14:13, in every translation this tool compares.
The lifeboat saved them. Rescue from something concrete. English still uses save that way and only sounds religious in certain sentences.
Because the Hebrew verb is overwhelmingly about rescue from physical danger, and the name given to Jesus is built on it.
Versions read save, deliver, or rescue.
יָשַׁע yasha · H3467
Yasha means to bring into a spacious place, hence to rescue. Yehoshua, Joshua, and its later form Yeshua are built on it. The noun yeshuah is salvation in the sense of deliverance.
English save has narrowed its religious use so far that the concrete rescue sense reads as a different word.
Names built on verbs carry the verb with them. When a name is explained in the text, the explanation is a word study the writer did for you.
Save and deliver are both majority renderings depending on the context.
- Matthew 1:21 explains the name by the verb
- yeshuah: Exodus 15:2; Psalm 3:8
- Joshua and Jesus are the same name in two languages
