Why Mary? Dr. David Jeremiah

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One thing that needs correcting is that "Yeeshuwa`" ("Jesus")  means "HE shall save" (Matthew 1:21); Yhowshuwa` ("Joshua" or "Jehoshua") means "YHWH shall save." It's a distinction most will not see if they do not know Hebrew, but the yud-prefix is used for the third-person singular form of the verb. When the hei is added as well, THEN the "YH" refers to the Tetragrammaton, the Name of G-D, also called "haShem," which means "the Name," by Jews.

Strong's uses the difference, for "Jeshua" and "Joshua," but the author (which MAY have been James Strong himself) made the same mistake as Dr. Jeremiah did. In fact, Dr. Jeremiah may have made the mistake BECAUSE of how the references were tied together in Strong's Exhaustive Concordance:

"Jeshua" (H3442, יֵשׁוּעַ)  is first found in 1 Chronicles 24:11 and it is found 30 times in 30 verses (according to Blue Letter Bible). THIS is the name that was used for "Jesus" in the Gospels.

"Joshua" [also "Jehoshua"] (H3091, יְהוֹשׁוּעַ) is first found in Exodus 17:9 and it is found 216 times in 197 verses. (Sometimes, the first vav is included; sometimes it is not. To include it only makes the reference to HaShem [the Name] more pronounced.) THIS name means "YHWH shall save." Sometimes, the second vav with the dot in the middle (a shuwrukh) is replaced with the three dots in a diagonal row below the shin (שׁ). (This is called a kubuwts.)