Joshua (1)

Joshua (1) josh'-u-a
(a) yehoshua`,
(b) yehoshua`, "Yahweh is deliverance" or "opulence"; compare JESHUA; Iesous:

(1) Joshua the son of Nun; the name has the Hebrew form
(a) above in Deut 3:21, Judg 2:7; elsewhere the form

(b), except in Ne 8:17, where it is of the form yeshua` (See JESHUA); compare also Num 13:8, Num 13:16, Deut 32:44. See following article.

(2) In 1Sam 6:14, 1Sam 6:18 (form (b)), the Bethshemite in whose field stood the kine that brought the ark from the Philistines.

(3) In 2Ki 23:8 (form (b)), governor of Jerusalem in the time of Josiah.

(4) The high priest at Jerusalem after the return. See separate article.
S. F. Hunter