Dictionaries :: Jeshua

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).

(3.) Ezr 2:6; Neh 7:11.

(4.) Ezr 2:40; Neh 7:43.

(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 Sa‘weh, a ruin upon a prominent hill, Tell es Sa‘weh, 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: 1. Called also Jeshuah

A priest, head of the ninth shift,

1Ch 24:11.

Nine hundred seventy-three of his descendants returned from Babylon,

Ezr 2:36; Neh 7:39.

Jeshua: 2. A Levite Who Had Charge

Of the tithes,

2Ch 31:15.

His descendants returned with Ezra from Babylon,

Ezr 2:40; Neh 7:43.

Jeshua: 3. Called also Joshua

A priest who accompanied Zerubbabel from Babylon,

Ezr 2:2; Neh 7:7; 12:1.

Descendants of,

Neh 12:10.

He rebuilt the altar,

Ezr 3:2.

Rebuilt the temple,

Ezr 3:8-13.

Contends with those who sought to defeat the rebuilding of the temple,

Ezr 4:1-3; 5:1, 2.

Jeshua: 4. Father of Jozabad

Ezr 8:33

Jeshua: 5. Son of Pahath-Moab

Ezr 2:6; Neh 7:11

Jeshua: 6. Father of Ezer

Neh 3:19

Jeshua: 7. A Levite Who Explained the Law

To the people when Ezra read it aloud,

Neh 8:7; 12:8.

Jeshua: 8. A Levite Who Sealed Nehemiah's Covenant

Neh 10:9

Jeshua: 9. A City of the Tribe of Judah

Neh 11:26

Jeshua: 10. Joshua Called

Neh 8:17

Jeshua: Symbolical:

Prophecies concerning,

Zec 3; 6:9-15.

See JOSHUA

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.