Ancient Greek

Proper noun

Ἰησοῦς • ‎(Iēsoûs) m ‎(genitive Ἰησοῦ); second declension

1. (biblical) Jesus
2. (biblical) Joshua

Inflection

Usage notes

• The Septuagint uses Ἰησοῖ as the dative, while the New Testament uses Ἰησοῦ.

Descendants

• Greek: Ιησούς ‎(Iisoús)
• Hebrew: [Term?]
• Latin: Iesus, Jesus
  • English: Jesus
  • German: Jesus
• Russian: Иисус ‎(Iisus)

References

• Ἰησοῦς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Ἰησοῦς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “G2424”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• LSJ