Jeshua:
(1.) Head of the ninth priestly order (Ezr 2:36); called also Jeshuah (1Ch 24:11).
(2.) A Levite appointed by Hezekiah to distribute offerings in the priestly cities (2Ch 31:15).
(5.) The son of Jozadak, and high priest of the Jews under Zerubbabel (Neh 7:7; 12:1,7,10,26); called Joshua (Hag 1:1,12; 2:2,4; Zec 3:1,3,6,8,9).
(6.) A Levite (Ezr 8:33).
(7.) Neh 3:19.
(8.) A Levite who assisted in the reformation under Nehemiah (Neh 8:7; 9:4,5).
(9.) Son of Kadmiel (Neh 12:24).
(10.) A city of Judah (Neh 11:26).
(11.) Neh 8:17; Joshua, the son of Nun.
Jeshua:
same as Joshua
Jeshua:
jesh'-u-a, je-shu'-a (yeshua): A place occupied by the children of Judah after their return from captivity (Ne 11:26), evidently, from the places named with it, in the extreme South of Judah. It may correspond with the Shema of Jos 15:26, and possibly to the Sheba of 19:2. The site may be Khirbet Saweh, a ruin upon a prominent hill, Tell es Saweh, 12 miles East-Northeast of Beersheba. The hill is surrounded by a wall of large blocks of stone. PEF, III, 409-10, Sh XXV.
Jeshua:
(a saviour) another form of the name of Joshua of Jesus.
(1.) Joshua the son of Nun (Nehemiah 8:17). SEE [JOSHUA].
(2.) A priest in the reign of David, to whom the ninth course fell by lot (1 Chronicles 24:11). (B.C. 1014)
(3.) One of the Levites in the reign of Hezekiah (2 Chronicles 31:15). (B.C. 726)
(4.) 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 (1 Chronicles 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 Zechariah 3:1 … and Zechariah 6:9-15 point him out as an eminent type of Christ.
(5.) Head of a Levitical house, one of those which returned from the Babylonish captivity (Ezra 2:40; 3:9; Nehemiah 3:19; 8:7; 9:4-5; 12:8 etc.).
(6.) A branch of the family of Pahath‐moab, one of the chief families, probably, of the tribe of Judah Nehemiah 10:14; 7:11 etc.; Ezra 10:30.
(7.)(whom Jehovah helps) One of the towns reinhabited by the people of Judah after the return from captivity (Nehemiah 11:26). It is not mentioned elsewhere.
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