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Jeshua

Mentioned 1014–444 BC traditional (Jones)

Head of the ninth priestly order (Ezra 2:36); called also Jeshuah (1 Chr. 24:11).

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Father
Jozadak
Tagged in
4 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 1156–302 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 6 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

4 tagged verses in 3 books. Select a book to read its verses.

  1. 1 Chronicles1
  2. Ezra2
  3. Nehemiah1

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBJeshua 29
KJVJeshua 30
ASVJeshua 30

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 4 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

1 Chronicles1 verse
  1. 24:11

    the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah,

Ezra2 verses
  1. 2:36

    The priests: The descendants of Jedaiah (through the house of Jeshua), 973;

  2. 10:18

    Among the descendants of the priests who had married foreign women were found these descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.

Nehemiah1 verse
  1. 7:39

    The priests: the descendants of Jedaiah (through the house of Jeshua), 973;

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

Head of the ninth priestly order (Ezra 2:36); called also Jeshuah (1 Chr. 24:11).