ДЇrom Greek, бјёО·ПѓОїбї¦П‚ ( IД“sous) moved into Latin at least by the time of the Vetus Latina. This etymology of 'physician' may derive from the sect of the ОёОµПЃО±ПЂОµП…П„О±ОЇ ( Therapeutae), of which Ephanius was familiar. In the Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis, the name IД“sous comes from Hebrew/Aramaic and means 'healer or physician, and saviour,' and that the earliest Christians were named Jessaeans based on this name before they were called Christians.

The Greek writings of Philo of Alexandria and Josephus frequently mention this name. The diphthongal vowel of Masoretic YehoshuaКї or YeshuaКї would not have been present in Hebrew/Aramaic pronunciation during this period, and some scholars believe some dialects dropped the pharyngeal sound of the final letter ЧўвЂЋ Кї ayin, which in any case had no counterpart in ancient Greek. Since Greek had no equivalent to the Semitic letter Ч©вЂЋ shin, it was replaced with a Пѓ 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. Д«y the time the New Testament was written, the Septuagint had already transliterated Ч™Ч©Ч•Чў ( YeshuaКї) into Koine Greek as closely as possible in the 3rd-century BCE, the result being бјёО·ПѓОїбї¦П‚ ( IД“sous). 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-ЕЎ-К• (Hebrew: Ч™Ч©Чў), meaning 'to deliver to rescue.' Likely originating in proto-Semitic (yб№Ї'), 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 ЬќЬ«ЬЬҐ (in Hebrew script: Ч™Ч©Ч•Чў) YeshuКї and YishoКї, respectively, including the Кїayin. Дuring 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 YehoshuaКї to YeshuaКї, the vowel is instead fronted (perhaps due to the influence of the y in the triliteral root y-ЕЎ-Кї). Usually, the traditional theophoric element Ч™Ч”Ч•вЂЋ ( Yahu) was shortened at the beginning of a name to Ч™Ч•вЂЋ ( Yo-), and at the end to Ч™Ч”вЂЋ ( -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). There have been various proposals as to the literal etymological meaning of the name YЙ™hГґЕЎuaКї ( Joshua, Hebrew: Ч™Ц°Ч”Ч•Ц№Ч©Ц»ЧЃЧўЦ·), including Yahweh/Yehowah saves, (is) salvation, (is) a saving-cry, (is) a cry-for-saving, (is) a cry-for-help, (is) my help.