Ἰησοῦς

See also: Ιησούς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew ישוע‎, the common Secunda Hebrew contraction of יהושע‎ (Joshua).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /i.ɛː.sôːs/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /i.eˈsus/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /i.iˈsus/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /i.iˈsus/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.iˈsus/

Proper noun

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

(biblical) Jesus
(biblical) Joshua

Usage notes

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

Inflection

Declension of Ἰησοῦς, Ἰησοῦ

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	Ἰησοῦς
Genitive	Ἰησοῦ
Dative	Ἰησοῖ/Ἰησοῦ
Accusative	Ἰησοῦν
Vocative	Ἰησοῦ

Descendants

→ Coptic: ⲓⲏⲥⲟⲩⲥ (iēsous)
→ Gothic: 𐌹𐌴𐍃𐌿𐍃 (iēsus)
Greek: Ιησούς (Iisoús)
→ Hebrew: [Term?]
→ Latin: Iēsus (see there for further descendants), Jēsus
- → English: Jesus
→ Old Armenian: Յիսուս (Yisus)
- Armenian: Հիսուս (Hisus)
→ Old Church Slavonic: їисоусъ (iisusŭ), исоусъ (isusŭ)
- → Belarusian: Ісу́с (Isús)
- Bulgarian: Иису́с (Iisús), Ису́с (Isús)
- → Japanese: イイスス (Iisusu)
- → Macedonian: Исус (Isus)
- → Romanian: Iisus, Isus
- → Pre-reform Russian: Іисусъ (Iisus)
  - Russian: Иисус (Iisus)
- → Serbo-Croatian: Ìsus, Ѝсус
- → Ukrainian: Ісу́с (Isús)

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
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