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yᵊšaʿyāhū יְשַׁעְיָ֫הוּ ‘Isaiah’ (Hebrew)

Etymology?: from yāšaʿ יָשַׁע ‘to save’ and yāh יָהּ ‘YH--’
Roots: ישׁע יה
Variants: יְשַׁעְיָ֫הוּ, יְשַׁעְיָה

yᵊšaʿyāhū pr n m pers
AIsaiah or Jesaiah or Jeshaiah = "Jehovah has saved"
1) the major prophet, son of Amoz, who prophesied concerning Judah and Jerusalem during the days of kings Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah of Judah; author of the prophetic book by his name; tradition has it that he was sawn asunder in the trunk of a carob tree by king Manasseh and that this is the incident referred to in Heb 11:37
2) one of the 6 sons of Jeduthun
3) son of Rehabiah, a descendant of Moses through Gershom, and an ancestor of a Levite treasurer in the time of David
BIsaiah or Jesaiah or Jeshaiah = "Jehovah has saved"
1) son of Hananiah, brother of Pelatiah, and grandson of Zerubbabel
2) a Benjamite
3) son of Athaliah and chief of the house of Elam who returned with Ezra
4) a chief of the descendants of Merari who returned with Ezra

Mentioned in 2 Kings 19:6, 20:8, 20:9, 20:11, 20:14, 19:2, 19:5, 19:20, 20:1, 20:4, 20:16, 20:19, 20:7 Isaiah 37:6, 20:3, 1:1, 7:3, 39:3, 37:2, 37:5, 37:21, 38:1, 38:4, 39:5, 39:8, 2:1, 13:1, 20:2, 38:21 Ezra 8:19, 8:7 Nehemiah 11:7 1 Chronicles 25:3, 25:15, 26:25, 3:21 2 Chronicles 26:22, 32:20, 32:32

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