Yeshua vs. Jesus - The Name
When Christian believers pray to the Messiah of the Holy Bible, some call on the name of Jesus, and others call on the name of Yeshua. In recent times, however, some believers will say that praying must be done using the Messiah's original Hebrew name instead of the transliterated Greek name. We will discuss the origin of both names and how each name is used throughout the Bible to see what standard the Bible really has for this claim. In the end, we will discover that whether you call on the name of Jesus or Yeshua, you are still calling on salvation! The Name Yeshua The original name for Jesus in the language of Hebrew was Yeshua. Yeshua is a Hebrew name that means "salvation". This is the name that Greek transcribers used to transliterate into a Greek-sounding version of Yeshua which became Iesus and eventually Jesus. We will discuss more on this transliteration below. In Hebrew there is a word "Yasha", which means to ...