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I have no problem in learning from others. A couple of times I was "abused" in rants and taunts when trying to be adult about a discussion and when the opposite views didn't go along with their thinking here came the obnoxious replies.

Anyway, I copied your post into a Word doc and will check it all out.

Thanks for your time to post it.

Regards, Janey.

Looking at the first appearance of Joshua (in English) in Torah at Exodus 17:9, here are the characters one sees:

jodh sh'va he vav-with-a-dot-on-top=holem shin kibbuts ayin pathah

ee eh h oh sh oo ah

Brown/Driver/Briggs lexicon says this:

H3091
יהושׁע / יהושׁוּע
yehoÌ‚shuÌ‚a‛
BDB Definition:
Joshua or Jehoshua = "Jehovah is salvation"

According to Strong's Concordance dictionary:

Strong's Number = H3091
יהושׁע יהושׁוּע
yehoÌ‚shuÌ‚a‛ yehoÌ‚shuÌ‚a‛
yeh-ho-shoo'-ah, yeh-ho-shoo'-ah
From H3068 and H3467; Jehovah-saved; Jehoshua (that is, Joshua),
the Jewish leader: - Jehoshua, Jehoshuah, Joshua.
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But try it youself: If you say "Jehoshuah" vey fast, , the Je and the hah elide, and the sound simply becomes "Joshuah."

Remember, too, that in transliterating to Greek, the Koine has no "sh" sound. So that means when a Greek says His Name, it will come out as:

"Ee ay soo" (no "sh" sound)

But to be grammatical as the nominative of a masculine noun, the letter sigma must be appended, so the sound will come out as "Ee ay soos", and be spelled as Ἰησοῦς.

To Luther, it would be spelled in German as "Jesus", yet souns the same as the Greek.

However, if we take the spelling as in German, and make it a proper noun in English, it would be spelled the same.

But when an Englishman (or American) is shown it, he/she is going to look at the name "Jesus" and say "gee-zuhs". This is how we lost the "hah" out of Yehoshua to get Jesus. If we talked about Him to a first century Christian, he/she would have no idea of who this "geezuhs" was.