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Yehoshua
Yehoshua may refer to:
- Jehoshua or Joshua (Hebrew: ), a figure in the Jewish Torah and the central character in the Book of Joshua
- Book of Joshua (Hebrew: ), a book of the Bible
- Yehoshua (surname), a Hebrew surname
- Yehoshua (given name), a list of people
Yehoshua (surname)
Yehoshua is a Hebrew surname that is presumably derived directly from the English transliteration of , which means roughly "YHWH rescues" or "YHWH is salvation".
"Yehoshua" was also the Hebrew name for Joshua and has been used as a masculine given name. A common alternative form of the name ("Yehoshuah" - Joshua) in later books of the Hebrew Bible and among Jews of the Second Temple period is yēšūă‘.
This surname is sufficiently rare to apparently not appear in the United States Census of 1990.
This surname is shared by several notable people:
- A. B. Yehoshua (born 1936), Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright
- Itzhak Yehoshua (born 1962), Chief Rabbi of the Bukharian Jews in the United States
Yehoshua (given name)
Yehoshua is a masculine given name related to Joshua. People named Yehoshua include:
- Gerónimo de Santa Fe (fl. 1550–1620), Spanish physician and religious writer born Yehosúa ben Yosef
- Yehoshua Cohen (1922-1986), assassin of Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte
- Yehoshua Leib Diskin (1818–1898), Lithuanian rabbi, Talmudist and Biblical commentator
- Yehoshua Rokeach (1825–1894), second Rebbe of the Belz Hasidic dynasty, born in the Austrian Empire
- Yehoshua Rozin (1918–2002), Egyptian-born Israeli basketball coach
- Yehoshua Joshua Sobol (born 1939), Israeli playwright, writer, and director
- Yehoshua Zettler (1917–2009), Jerusalem commander of the Jewish paramilitary group Lehi (Stern gang), planned and carried out the assassination of Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte