Jesus

Meanings

Proper Noun

• Jesus of Nazareth, a first-century Jewish religious preacher from Galilee whom Christians consider to be the son of God and call "Jesus Christ" in the belief that he is the Messiah, and whom the Muslims believe to be a prophet.
• One of a variety of persons or entities in western Manichaeism, of whom some correspond closely to the Christian conception of Jesus of Nazareth.
• A male given name from Aramaic

Noun

• The Christian savior.

Interjection

• An exclamation, the use of which is considered blasphemous among some Christians.

Verb

• To subject to (excessive) Christian proselytizing, preaching, or moralizing.
• To exclaim "Jesus" (at).

Related

Similar words

• Christ, God, Jesus Christ

Origin

• From Middle English Jhesus, Iesus, from Latin Iēsūs, from Ancient Greek Ἰησοῦς, from Ancient Hebrew יֵשׁוּעַ, a contracted form of יְהוֹשֻׁעַ. The form יֵשׁוּעַ is attested in some of the later books of the Hebrew Bible (Ezra–Nehemiah), and translated as Jeshua or Yeshua in some English editions (the former appearing in the King James Version). The Greek texts make no distinction between Jesus and Joshua, referring to them both as Ἰησοῦς.
• In the Wycliffe Bible (Middle English), the forms used are Jhesus and Jhesu.