Dict: smith - JESHUA

smith:

JESHUA - J>@ - (a saviour), another form of the name of Joshua of Jesus. Joshua the son of Nun. kjv@Nehemiah:8:17) JOSHUA A priest in the reign of David, to whom the nine course fell by David, to whom the ninth course fell by lot. ( kjv@1Chronicles:24:11) (B.C. 1014.) One of the Levites in the reign of Hezekiah. ( kjv@2Chronicles:31:15) (B.C. 726.) Son of Jehozadak, first high priest after the Babylonish captivity, B.C. 536. Jeshua was probably born in Babylon, whither his father Jehozadak had been taken captive while young. ( kjv@1Chronicles:6:15) Authorized Version. He came up from Babylon in the first year of Cyrus, with Zerubbabel, and took a leading part with him in the rebuilding of the temple and the restoration of the Jewish commonwealth. The two prophecies concerning him in kjv@Zechariah:3:1) ... and kjv@Zechariah:6:9-15 Point him out as an eminent type of Christ. Head of a Levitical house, one of those which returned from the Babylonish captivity. kjv@Ezra:2:40 kjv@Ezra:3:9; kjv@Nehemiah:3:19 kjv@Nehemiah:8:7 kjv@Nehemiah:9:4 -5; 12:8) etc. A branch of the family of Pahath-moab, one of the chief families, probably, of the tribe of Judah. kjv@Nehemiah:10:14 kjv@Nehemiah:7:11) etc.; kjv@Ezra:10:30

JESHUA - J>@ - (whom Jehovah helps), one of the towns reinhabited by the people of Judah after the return from captivity. kjv@Nehemiah:11:26) It is not mentioned elsewhere.

JESHUAH - J>@ - a priest in the reign of David, ( kjv@1Chronicles:24:11) the same as JESHUA, No. 2. (B.C. 1014.)