# H3091 יְהוֹשׁוּעַ

יְהוֹשׁוּעַ (Yᵉhôwshûwaʻ), Strong’s H3091: Jehoshua (i.e. Joshua), the Jewish leader KJV: Jehoshua, Jehoshuah, Joshua. Compare H1954 (הוֹשֵׁעַ), H3442 (יֵשׁוּעַ).. Occurs 218 times.

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*Yᵉhôwshûwaʻ* — Jehoshua (i.e. Joshua), the Jewish leader

KJV: Jehoshua, Jehoshuah, Joshua. Compare H1954 (הוֹשֵׁעַ), H3442 (יֵשׁוּעַ).

Built from [יְהֹוָה Yᵉhôvâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H3068) (Jehovah, Jewish national name of God) + [יָשַׁע yâshaʻ](https://besorah.bible/word/H3467) (to be open, wide or free) — means “Jehovah-saved”

Occurs 218 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- יְהוֹשׁוּעַ, יְהוֹשֻׁעַ, and (later) יֵשׁוּעַ, n.pr.m. (& loc., v. 9 infr.) (י׳ is salvation or י׳ is opulence)
- 1 Moses’ successor, son of Nun
- 2 a Bethshemite
- 3 h.p. after the restoration, son of Jehozadak
- 4 governor of Jerusalem under Josiah
- 5 head of one of the classes of priests
- 6 a Levitical family-name of frequent occurrence
- 7 father of a builder at the wall
- 8 a Judaite family-name
- 9 n.pr.loc. in south of Judah

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 17:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/17?v=9) — Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us, and go out to fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill…
- [Exodus 17:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/17?v=10) — So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
- [Exodus 17:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/17?v=13) — Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
- [Exodus 17:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/17?v=14) — The LORD said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will…
- [Exodus 24:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/24?v=13) — Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God’s Mountain.
- [Exodus 32:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/32?v=17) — When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is the noise of war in the camp.”
- [Exodus 33:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/33?v=11) — The LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant…
- [Numbers 11:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/11?v=28) — Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered, “My lord Moses, forbid them!”
- [Numbers 13:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/13?v=16) — These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
- [Numbers 14:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/14?v=6) — Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.