Names used in Scripture

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In the Bible, names are symbols and represent or personify a characteristic or feature, uniqueness of a person, or place or thing, with or without actually being that person, place or thing.

Many names also can be used to reveal different aspects of God's character and are not meant to describe all that is God either. Each name has a significant meaning, of an important message being sent to us, as the reader, and is used to reveal a different part of His character to us.

Some of the names of God found in the Bible include El Shaddai (Lord God Almighty), El Elyon (The Most High God), Adonai (LORD, Lord, Master), and Yahweh (LORD, Lord, Jehovah).

From the KJV, it contains a list of 3,418 distinct names, including 1,940 names of individuals, 1,072 names of places, 317 names of collective entities or nations, and 66 names allocated to miscellaneous items such as months, rivers, or pagan deities. (List of biblical names - Wikipedia)

Names in the Bible can also represent human hopes, divine revelations, or illustrate prophecies. For example, the name Nabal means "fool" and is used to describe a foolish man in the Bible.(List of biblical names - Wikipedia)


Did you know that the word 'Jesus' is not the actual name of the Son of God used in the original texts of scripture?
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Did you also know that Emmanuel is not Jesus himself, and cannot be a substitute for him either.

Can you share what is the important message being sent to us by scripture calling Jesus, Emmanuel?



Can you also share your favorite names in the Bible, their source(s), and meaning(s) in their context found?

 

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The word "Jesus" is a masculine name of Latin origin, although in the earlier language of Greek it is Iēsous (Ἰησοῦς) and in Hebrew it is transliterated either as Yeshua or it expanded version, Yehoshua.

In the Greek New Testament, Jesus’ name is written as Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous), with a capital letter (Iota) and a horizontal line or stroke above it, indicating its sacred nature.

“Yahshua” is not the name of Jesus - “Yeshua” or "Yehoshua" is. It is pronounced “Yay-shoo-ah”. It is spelled ישׁוע in Hebrew.

So why did the scriptures in the New Testament not use his Hebrew name?

I hope all this is crystal clear

 

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Emmanuel or Immanuel is written down in four places of scripture: Isaiah 7:14, 8:8, 10, and also in Matthew 1:23.

From the Hebrew language it means in English, 'God (be)(is) with us.

In Isaiah, the word Emmanuel was used as a prayer, crying on bended knees, by Judah, to pray that God was with them, as their conqueror, to defend their tribe and land against the Northern Tribe of Israel and Assyrian armies. To conquer them. And of course this prophecy was fulfilled a few years later. The armies of the Assyrians and the tribe of Israel were decimated.

In Matthew, the same Emmanuel expression is used to indicate that God was coming again to the aid of the people, actually not just for Israel, especially the remnant of Israel, all peoples and remnants of the nations, through his Son, Jesus.

God, his Father's spirit dwelt in his Son and being with and in his Son represented the name Emmanuel, and he would conquer, redeem us from imminent death causes by the old enemy, sin. The Son was the executioner of the command of God, to save all of his people, once again.

The name Yeshua actually means one who saved or is salvation for people.

 

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Another crucial name in the Bible, is for Jesus. called the Son of Man.

The “son of man,” both an Aramaic and Hebrew idiom is used for an ordinary human being and person. In Aramaic, it is typically rendered as "bar nasha" or "bar enosh," which translates to "a human being" or "someone." Often seen as denoting a single member of humanity, emphasizing human weakness and mortality.

The common Hebrew term "ben 'adam," generally refers to the expression as mankind in a broader sense.

Yeshua called himself the son of man explicitly, by his own words and is cited over 80 -88 times in the NT depending on the translation version. And then compare this with the only 7 times that Jesus called himself the Son of God.

Yeshua called himself a man because he was 100 percent human. It was not that he acted or played a part of a role as a male human being to fit someone's primitive view of Jesus and his God. And to also perform as a human to show his human nature and humanity as MS Christianity proposes. This would clearly mask Yeshua’s true human servant, mortal identity. He was born human as any man.

This would also oppose or violate scripture in places.

1. Jesus was made or created a little lower than the angels, as we are also lower than them.
(Heb 2:7a) You made him a little lower than the angels, You crowned him with glory and honour and did set him over the works of Your hands;
(Heb 2:9) But we behold him who has been made a little lower than the angels- Jesus- crowned with glory and honour because of his suffering of death, whereby, by the grace of God, he tasted death for every person.

2. Jesus was born once a human being as a human person and then reborn again into immortality.
(1Pe 1:23) Having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and endures.

3.Jesus was on earth a complete human person in typical human flesh. He just did not possess a human body for a covering; it was his natural earthly body as he was conceived with this human DNA to form this human body. The 'flesh' meaning, a complete human being with a complete human personage.
(1Jn 4:2) Hereby do you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ came in the flesh is of God.
(2Jn 1:7a) For many deceivers have gone out into the world, especially those that do not confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh.

He did not have to perform as a man as if this was his novel existence, because he already possessed a male human nature from conception; as any human being, and regardless of the unique method off conception by God.

There are always those that will say to unsettle, a psychological ploy to drown out the truth as evil would attempt to do. No he was not just a mere man as evil would say.

The only three major differences of Jesus as compared to other men, and they are huge differences, is that he was born of God for God’s plan and purpose alone, not by the will of another man. Secondly, he was born with the same human nature as Adam, of a pure and holy heart. And lastly, his human nature and heart never changed whilst he was alive on the earth, as he never sinned in the eyes of his Father.
(1Pe 2:22) He did no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth.

He had to be a human man as Adam was, to legally repay the disobedience of Adam, as in kind, from another human being who 'fell' from God's presence and initial Kingdom (Eden)