Words that come from Hebrew “יהושע”

88 words across 51 languages descend from Hebrew יהושע — including Jesus, gee, geez, agee, jeepers, Jesusy, Jesuslike, Jesusolatry.

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English (14)

Old Church Slavonic (4)

Latin (3)

Czech (3)

Urdu (3)

Spanish (3)

Hebrew (2)

Icelandic (2)

Cebuano (2)

Faroese (2)

Arabic (2)

Chinese (2)

Ligurian (2)

Portuguese (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)

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)

Tok Pisin (1)

Occitan (1)

Hindi (1)

Ladino (1)

Old Portuguese (1)

Old Czech (1)

Russian (1)