(saviour, or whose help is Jehovah). His name appears in the various forms of
Hoshea,
Oshea,
Jehoshua,
Jeshua and
Jesus.
An inhabitant of Beth-shemesh, in whose land was the stone at which the milch-kine stopped when they drew the ark of God with the offerings of the Philistines from Ekron to Beth-shemesh. (1 Samuel 6:14,18) (B.C. 1124.)
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See other occurrences of the same term: Joshua.
