Is there a Link Between the Name Immanuel and Jesus?

[Annette]

In the Old Testament, we read that the His name would be Immanuel.

Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign: Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.

In the New Testament, the angel tells Mary to call her son Jesus.

 Luke 1:31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus.

Is there a link between the meaning or significance of those names? 

 

 

[JohnD]

Jesus (Joshua) in the Hebrew Yehoshua,

YHVH (the name of God, i.e. Yahweh, Jehovah, transliterated LORD / ADONAI, lit. "HE IS" derived from "I AM" 'ehyeh asher 'ehyeh

HOSH root for save / salvation / savior in several Hebrew names Hosea, Hoshea, Joshua

Immanuel (God With Us) is a description more than a name,  he shall be called wonderful counselor mighty God everlasting Father

You call you Dad Father, and in a sense that's his name but it's not his name on his driver's license.

[Willa]

LONG VERSION:  VINCENT'S WORD STUDIES

Matthew 1:21

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Thus committing the office of a father to Joseph. The naming of the unborn Messiah would accord with popular notions. The Rabbis had a saying concerning the six whose names were given before their birth: “Isaac, Ishmael, Moses, Solomon, Josiah, and the name of the Messiah, whom may the Holy One, blessed be His name, bring quickly in our days.”

Jesus (Ιησοῦν)

The Greek form of a Hebrew name, which had been borne by two illustrious individuals in former periods of the Jewish history - Joshua, the successor of Moses, and Jeshua, the high-priest, who with Zerubbabel took so active a part in the re-establishment of the civil and religious polity of the Jews on their return from Babylon. Its original and full form is Jehoshua, becoming by contraction Joshua or Jeshua. Joshua, the son of Nun, the successor of Moses, was originally named Hoshea (saving), which was altered by Moses into Jehoshua (Jehovah (our) Salvation) (Num 13:16). The meaning of the name, therefore, finds expression in the title Saviour, applied to our Lord (Luk 1:47; Luk 2:11; Joh 4:42).

Joshua, the son of Nun, is a type of Christ in his office of captain and deliverer of his people, in the military aspect of his saving work (Rev 19:11-16). As God's revelation to Moses was in the character of a law-giver, his revelation to Joshua was in that of the Lord of Hosts (Jos 5:13, Jos 5:14). Under Joshua the enemies of Israel were conquered, and the people established in the Promised Land. So Jesus leads his people in the fight with sin and temptation. He is the leader of the faith which overcomes the world (Heb 12:2). Following him, we enter into rest.

The priestly office of Jesus is foreshadowed in the high-priest Jeshua, who appears in the vision of Zechariah (Zec 3:1-10; compare Ezr 2:2) in court before God, under accusation of Satan, and clad in filthy garments. Jeshua stands not only for himself, but as the representative of sinning and suffering Israel. Satan is defeated. The Lord rebukes him, and declares that he will redeem and restore this erring people; and in token thereof he commands that the accused priest be clad in clean robes and crowned with the priestly mitre.

Thus in this priestly Jeshua we have a type of our “Great High-Priest, touched with the feeling of our infirmities, and in all points tempted and tried like as we are;” confronting Satan in the wilderness; trying conclusions with him upon the victims of his malice - the sick, the sinful, and the demon-ridden. His royal robes are left behind. He counts not “equality with God a thing to be grasped at,” but “empties himself,” taking the “form of a servant,” humbling himself and becoming “obedient even unto death” (Php 2:6, Php 2:7, Rev.). He assumes the stained garments of our humanity. He who “knew no sin” is “made to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in him” (2Co 5:21). He is at once priest and victim. He pleads for sinful man before God's throne. He will redeem him. He will rebuke the malice and cast down the power of Satan. He will behold him” as lightning fall from heaven” (Luk 10:18). He will raise and save and purify men of weak natures, rebellious wills, and furious passions - cowardly braggarts and deniers like Peter, persecutors like Saul of Tarsus, charred brands - and make them witnesses of his grace and preachers of his love and power. His kingdom shall be a kingdom of priests, and the song of his redeemed church shall be, “unto him that loveth us, and loosed us from our sins by his own blood, and made us to be a kingdom, to be priests unto his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen” (Rev 1:5, Rev 1:6, in Rev.).

It is no mere fancy which sees a suggestion and a foreshadowing of the prophetic work of Jesus in the economy of salvation, in a third name closely akin to the former. Hoshea, which we know in our English Bible as Hosea, was the original name of Joshua (compare Rom 9:25, Rev.) and means saving. He is, in a peculiar sense, the prophet of grace and salvation, placing his hope in God's personal coming as the refuge and strength of humanity; in the purification of human life by its contact with the divine. The great truth which he has to teach is the love of Jehovah to Israel as expressed in the relation of husband, an idea which pervades his prophecy, and which is generated by his own sad domestic experience. He foreshadows Jesus in his pointed warnings against sin, his repeated offers of divine mercy, and his patient, forbearing love, as manifested in his dealing with an unfaithful and dissolute wife, whose soul he succeeded in rescuing from sin and death (Hosea 1-3). So long as he lived, he was one continual, living prophecy of the tenderness of God toward sinners; a picture of God's love for us when alien from him, and with nothing in us to love. The faithfulness of the prophetic teacher thus blends in Hosea, as in our Lord, with the compassion and sympathy and sacrifice of the priest.

[Willa]

2Pe 1:1  Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

Tit 2:11  For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, Tit 2:12  training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, Tit 2:13  waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, Tit 2:14  who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.

Col 1:15  He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. Col 1:16  For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. Col 1:17  And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. Col 1:18  And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. Col 1:19  For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, Col 1:20  and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.

Joh 1:1  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Joh 1:2  He was in the beginning with God. Joh 1:3  All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. Joh 1:4  In him was life, and the life was the light of men.    Joh 1:14  And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Php 2:5  Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, Php 2:6  who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, Php 2:7  but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. Php 2:8  And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross

Joh 14:16  And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, Joh 14:17  even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

Don't we call the Word, the Son of God, God With Us?  He is the second person of the Trinity Who came to dwell with men.  God with us. 

 

[JohnD]

He became one of us.

[Annette]

On 4/27/2017 at 10:37 AM, JohnD said:

Jesus (Joshua) in the Hebrew Yehoshua,

YHVH (the name of God, i.e. Yahweh, Jehovah, transliterated LORD / ADONAI, lit. "HE IS" derived from "I AM" 'ehyeh asher 'ehyeh

HOSH root for save / salvation / savior in several Hebrew names Hosea, Hoshea, Joshua

Immanuel (God With Us) is a description more than a name,  he shall be called wonderful counselor mighty God everlasting Father

You call you Dad Father, and in a sense that's his name but it's not his name on his driver's license.

Thanks, JohnD, for breaking down the meaning of the words as well as the comparison between calling my dad by his relationship to me and his actual name. Blessings.

[Annette]

On 4/29/2017 at 2:09 PM, Willa said:

2Pe 1:1  Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

Tit 2:11  For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, Tit 2:12  training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, Tit 2:13  waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, Tit 2:14  who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.

Col 1:15  He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. Col 1:16  For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. Col 1:17  And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. Col 1:18  And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. Col 1:19  For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, Col 1:20  and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.

Joh 1:1  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Joh 1:2  He was in the beginning with God. Joh 1:3  All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. Joh 1:4  In him was life, and the life was the light of men.    Joh 1:14  And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Php 2:5  Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, Php 2:6  who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, Php 2:7  but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. Php 2:8  And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross

Joh 14:16  And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, Joh 14:17  even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

Don't we call the Word, the Son of God, God With Us?  He is the second person of the Trinity Who came to dwell with men.  God with us. 

 

Thank you, Willa. Was just thinking of John 1:1 this week, just the thought of God always being is something that I find so amazing. Blessings 

[Fidei Defensor]

Immanuel is one of Jesus' many names, along with LORD/Jehovah, Prince of Peace, Mighty God, Son of Man, Son of God, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Counselor, and etc.

Jesus comes from Iesus (Latin) which comes from Iesous (Greek) which comes from Yeshua (Aramaic and Hebrew). Jesus means Savior, "She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins." (Matthew 1:21).

Emmanuel comes from Immanuel which means "God with us," "Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us)." (Matthew 1:23).

Notice both names Jesus and Immanuel are only a couple verses apart: Jesus (Matthew 1:21) and Immanuel (Matthew 1:23). So yes they are connected.

If we were to use Our Lord full name it would be LORD Jesus Immanuel, which translates Jehovah Savior God With Us

For LORD means Jehovah in Hebrew, God of Israel (Romans 10:9) and Jesus is Lord.

Jesus as aforementioned is Savior

Immanuel is God with us.

All tougher Jehovah Savior God With Us.
 

[Annette]

8 hours ago, Fidei Defensor said:

Immanuel is one of Jesus' many names, along with LORD/Jehovah, Prince of Peace, Mighty God, Son of Man, Son of God, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Counselor, and etc.

Jesus comes from Iesus (Latin) which comes from Iesous (Greek) which comes from Yeshua (Aramaic and Hebrew). Jesus means Savior, "She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins." (Matthew 1:21).

Emmanuel comes from Immanuel which means "God with us," "Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us)." (Matthew 1:23).

Notice both names Jesus and Immanuel are only a couple verses apart: Jesus (Matthew 1:21) and Immanuel (Matthew 1:23). So yes they are connected.

If we were to use Our Lord full name it would be LORD Jesus Immanuel, which translates Jehovah Savior God With Us

For LORD means Jehovah in Hebrew, God of Israel (Romans 10:9) and Jesus is Lord.

Jesus as aforementioned is Savior

Immanuel is God with us.

All tougher Jehovah Savior God With Us.
 

Thank you so much Fidei for taking the time to answer. I love that we have the opportunity to have God with us.

[Fidei Defensor]

7 hours ago, Annette said:

Thank you so much Fidei for taking the time to answer. I love that we have the opportunity to have God with us.

It was my pleasure, nay privilege to add to the discussion.