Since Greek had no equivalent to the Semitic letter ש shin, it was replaced with a σ sigma, and a masculine singular ending was added in the nominative case, in order to allow the name to be inflected for case (nominative, accusative, etc.) in the grammar of the Greek language. īy the time the New Testament was written, the Septuagint had already transliterated ישוע ( Yeshuaʿ) into Koine Greek as closely as possible in the 3rd-century BCE, the result being Ἰησοῦς ( Iēsous). Its oldest recorded use is in an Amorite personal name from 2048 B.C. The name Jesus is derived from the Hebrew name Yeshua/Y'shua, which is based on the Semitic root y-š-ʕ (Hebrew: ישע), meaning "to deliver to rescue." Likely originating in proto-Semitic (yṯ'), it appears in several Semitic personal names outside of Hebrew, like in the Aramaic name Hadad Yith'i, meaning "Hadad is my salvation". However, both the Western and Eastern Syriac Christian traditions use the Aramaic name ܝܫܘܥ (in Hebrew script: ישוע) Yeshuʿ and Yishoʿ, respectively, including the ʿayin. ĭuring the post-biblical period the further shortened form Yeshu was adopted by Hebrew speaking Jews to refer to the Christian Jesus, however Yehoshua continued to be used for the other figures called Jesus. Yeshua/Y'shua was in common use by Jews during the Second Temple period and many Jewish religious figures bear the name, including Joshua in the Hebrew Bible and Jesus in the New Testament. In the contraction of Yehoshuaʿ to Yeshuaʿ, the vowel is instead fronted (perhaps due to the influence of the y in the triliteral root y-š-ʿ). Usually, the traditional theophoric element יהו ( Yahu) was shortened at the beginning of a name to יו ( Yo-), and at the end to יה ( -yah). This historical change may have been due to a phonological shift whereby guttural phonemes weakened, including. These Bible verses refer to ten individuals (in Nehemiah 8:17, the name refers to Joshua son of Nun). Keep reading with open eyes.There have been various proposals as to the literal etymological meaning of the name Yəhôšuaʿ ( Joshua, Hebrew: יְהוֹשֻׁעַ), including Yahweh/Yehowah saves, (is) salvation, (is) a saving-cry, (is) a cry-for-saving, (is) a cry-for-help, (is) my help. And that God revealed more of the nature of this baby and his mission to us through the Word. And that God used that encounter to edify Mary and Joseph for what lay ahead. What we know is that his personal promise from God was fully kept. As far as the text tells us, he might have been young, he might have been old. Does God always require a lengthy gap between promise and fulfillment? A young man could just as truly pray that his life is fulfilled in seeing Messiah, that he can now die happy. But Simeon might just as easily have been a young man.
A few verses later in Luke, we meet the prophetess Anna whose age is clearly documented. Yet, if we read with our eyes open, we notice that the Scripture does not give us even a hint of his age the the time of this encounter. You expect the undertaker to be following three steps behind him wherever he goes. He may even be in the book of world records as the oldest living man.
He is stooped with the weight of extra years. His prayer on that occasion indicated that his life's purpose was now complete and he could die peacefully in the knowledge that God's salvation (for both Jews and Gentiles) had come.Įvery artist's rendition I have ever seen, from fancy portraits to sketches in Sunday School papers, shows Simeon to be an ancient man, supernaturally preserved well beyond the normal age of survival. Prompted by the Holy Spirit to go into the temple on the very day Jesus was brought for the purification ceremony, he saw and recognized Jesus as the fulfillment of that promise. Simeon had been told by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord's Messiah. Luke 2:25-35 describes an encounter of baby Jesus, Mary, & Joseph with a man named Simeon.
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