Words that come from Biblical Hebrew “יְהוֹשֻׁעַ”

88 words across 50 languages descend from Biblical Hebrew יְהוֹשֻׁעַ — including Jesus, Joshua, gee, geez, agee, jeepers, Jesusy, Jesuslike.

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English (15)

Chinese (4)

Old Church Slavonic (4)

Hebrew (3)

Cebuano (3)

Czech (3)

Spanish (3)

Latin (2)

Icelandic (2)

Faroese (2)

Ligurian (2)

Urdu (2)

Romanian (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Middle English (2)

Ancient Greek (1)

Dutch (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Middle High German (1)

Samoan (1)

Catalan (1)

French (1)

Mirandese (1)

Armenian (1)

Arabic (1)

Choctaw (1)

Yiddish (1)

Asturian (1)

Galician (1)

Aragonese (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Japanese (1)

Yup'ik (1)

Swedish (1)

Gothic (1)

Zulu (1)

Burmese (1)

Polish (1)

Aramaic (1)

Old Armenian (1)

Guerrero Amuzgo (1)

Portuguese (1)

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Occitan (1)

Ladino (1)

Old Portuguese (1)

Old Czech (1)

Russian (1)