The Greek name of Jesus

[Khristeeanos]

Here is an email from our minister at church who knows Greek:

Jesus is His "common name", and would be pronounced something like "ee-yea-sus." His TITLE as in "The CHRIST," in the "nominative" or first person form, would be "Christ-os" (with a short 'i'). His common name is ALSO a title of sorts because Jesus (Yeshua, in Hebrew) means "savior."

Later in the first century, as Christians began to be more persecuted and forced to meet secretly, they came up with an acrostic with the Greek word for FISH. It's pronounced something like "ikthus." (In English I've seen it spelled ICHTHUS.) In the GREEK spelling each of its 5 letters stood for J esus C hrist S on [of] G od S avior. AND, as you know, they would often make the sign of the FISH outside the dwelling where they were meeting, often in the dirt, but sometimes permanently affixed.

The word found in Strong's is actually the Greek word for CHRISTIAN, meaning "belonging to Christ." Very early on, the disciples were often called "followers of the Way." The Greek for that would be "math- ay- tas" (long 'a'), meaning a DISCIPLE or FOLLOWER, then the word "hodos" (short 'o' both times), meaning "way" or path or road.

Very fascinating, don't you think? Please discuss.

 

[wavy]

In all honesty to me? No. He was a Hebrew. Thus his name was Hebrew and not Greek. "Iesous" is just the best transliteration from the Hebrew for "Joshua's" name.

As far as the "followers of the Way", that is something interesting. People ignore who these people are and what they actually believed. They were the first followers of Messiah, of course.

 

[prophecy4]

what's more interesting is that "the way" is Mazzaroth in Hebrew, which is what we call the Zodiac... if anyone cares to google it, the mazzaroth tell the story of a virgin birh (virgo) all the way to His second coming and reign on earth (leo) and both signs combined to make a Sphinx... but that's a whole discussion in itself.