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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Jesus

Je′sus (jē′zŭs), n. [L. Jesus, Gr. Ἰησοῦς, from Heb. Yēshūa'; Yāh Jehovah + hōshīa' to help.] The Savior; the name of the Son of God as announced by the angel to his parents; the personal name of Our Lord, in distinction from Christ, his official appellation. Luke i. 31.

Thou shalt call his name Jesus; for he shall save his people from their sins. Matt. i. 21.

☞The form Jesu is often used, esp. in the vocative.

Jesu, do thou my soul receive. Keble.

The Society of Jesus. See Jesuit.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.