If Jesus was a Hebrew, why did he have a mexican name?
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Jesus doesn't have a Mexican name. Jesus (hey-sus) is just how it's pronounced in Spanish.
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Yes Jesus Pronounced HEyZEUs.  He was a spanish friend of mine.  i saw the whole thing!
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ADDED: Oh you are talking about the Name of Gd? There are quite a few names for Gd in the TaNaCH, there is the unpronounceable y-h-v-h, there is the pronounced 'adonai' which means 'my master' or my lord, as in lords and ladies of England, there are the derivitives of El, (meaning 'power' because Gd is the Ultimate Power) like Elohim, El, Eloah, and the constructs like El Elyon, El shaddai. Shaddai, and El Shaddai are derived from the idea that other religions have to have more than one as their godhead, or as godS, but our Gd is El SHaddai, meaning 'Gd Who Is Enough.'\n\nPlease see http://www.jewfaq.org/name.htm for the best, and most accurate, explanation there is on this topic!\n----\nBy 'the Jewish word' do you mean Hebrew or do you mean Yiddish, or do you mean Ladino, or do you mean any of the other languages created by the Jewish People?? As the Jews were kicked out of one Christian country to another, the first thing they did was to learn the local language. However, they wrote it in the language they knew, which was with Hebrew letters. Yiddish is a dialect of German, Ladino is a dialect of Spanish, and on and on. So, i am not sure which language you are referring to by "Jewish" word??\n\nIf you mean Hebrew, it is go-el. i do not know Yiddish or Ladino, so if it is in one of these two languages, i am sorry i cant help.
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Ignorance!  Jesus was a Jew and born and raised in the middle east and Egypt.  He was probably very dark skined from traveling by foot so much.  He was a carpenter by trade and spent a lot of time out doors.  He must have had an awesome tan!
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Could have been a form of Aramaic or Hebrew, but I doubt it.  Probably some language that hasn't been spoken in several thousand years.  Of course, he was the first model, so he might have spoken binary.
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Not a valid question, and no pun intended, but how many folks coming here from Mexico and more south are named "Jesus"???
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The basic translation of the Hebrew God's name is YHWH.  The Jews left out the vowels because no human is worthy to either write or speak the full name of God.  Modern English speakers, fill in the vowel spaces with likely sounds, producing Yahweh.\n\nAs far as we can tell, the oldest name for the Hebrew God is YHWH, making this the most proper name.  Also, Christianity and Islam were created out of Judaism, so YHWH would be most proper name for the God of Christians and the God of Islam.\n\nThe basic story, from what I remember, is that Abraham was contacted by YHWH and his family and those who chose to follow YHWH became the Jews.  Over time, the Jews needed a Messiah, or a spiritual leader to bring them back to the right way of worship, so Jesus was sent to earth to help the Jews find the right path.  The followers of Jesus became the Christians.  After some time, Mohammed was born and spent his young life traveling, and came in contact with both Christian and Jewish merchants, from whom he learned about YHWH.  After some time, Mohammed was contacted by YHWH and became his prophet.  The followers of Mohammed became the Muslims.\n\nThat is roughly how it all went.  So, Non-Jews call God YHWH because that is his name, and we all follow that same God.
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It's a Hispanic name.  Could be from Spain, or anywhere in Latin America from Mexico to Chile.
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Even His name has changed! The letter "J" wasn't invented until 1630! Up until then, the letter "Y" was used.\nI keep trying to tell you Christian folks His name wasn't/isn't Jesus. That's simply the anglicized version of His Hebrew name.
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I'm sorry to have to take issue with the rabbi, but "John" is derived from Yôḥānān, short for יהוחנן Yəhôḥānān, meaning "Yahweh has been gracious [or 'has shown favor']." (The German name Johann is a bit closer to the original.)   It is NOT the same name as "Jonathan" (except for those who in more recent times have created the name "Jon" AS a nickname for Jonathan).  \n\nNote that "Jo" is not "God" (for which the Hebrew uses El or the "plural of majesty", "Elohim").  It is from "Ja/Yah/Yahu", the short form of the personal name of God in Hebrew (widely thought to be "Yahweh", traditionally considered very sacred and so replaced by "the LORD" [Hebrew, "Adonai"] to avoid speaking it).\n\nA related Hebrew name in that of the prophet Samuel's mother - "Hannah" [ḥānā], "gracious"(see 1 Samuel 1-2).  The name John also points to one of the most important proclamations of the Old Testament, that the LORD (Yahweh) is a "gracious" God who has shown his people grace/favor (see especially Exodus 34:6, whose expressions are echoed in many other places).  \n\nIncidentally, Hebrew names like Jonathan ["Yahweh has given"] and John ["Yahweh has been gracious"], and many others are "sentence names".  They make some confessional statement about God, and/or may be related to the circumstances of the child's birth.  These two names, for instance, would be very appropriate for a LONG-awaited child.  It is, in fact, precisely the circumstance of the birth of John the Baptist to the elderly Zechariah and Elizabeth [Luke 1]\n\n------------------\n\n"William" (as already noted) is originally a Germanic name, meaning something like "valiant protector".  Its popularity in English owed much to "William the Conqueror" (1066).  Actually, the Conqueror's name (and so our "William") does NOT come directly from the Germanic form of the name (which would be "Wilhelm")but from the Norman French form (from Old French) Guillaume.   Also, the "helm" part is related to the word "helmet" and might more literally refer to that object used for protection rather than just the abstract idea of protection.   At any rate, it is a name given to a warrior-leader who is regarded as the helmet/protection of a group of people.\n\nThe addition of an -s to form a surname is a common practice in English to indicate a "DESCENDANT of William" (In other words, adding an 's' to form a surname is essentially the same as adding "son" as in "Williamson", etc.)
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Jesus is a Roman name.  Jesus never had a known Hebrew name, which seems very strange for a person that was supposed to be Jewish and G-d!\n\nSome people try and take his name and create a Jewish name for him, like Yeshua, but this is innacurate and a fraud.  You can't work backwards!
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His real name was Yeshua ben Yosef (Jesus/ Joshua son of Joseph) Yeshua was a quite common name at that time and is the name of other biblical characters but translates differently each time\n\nOK Joe... Jesus' name was also translated Joshua, like the spy/ leader of the Israelites and another name but I confuse which is a translation of Yehudah and which is Yeshua-- I do know Yehudah was Judah and James but I don't remember what Jude and Judas were
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I do not find this blasphemy at all.  Names have different meanings and functions in different cultures.  In some cultures, the name describes the essence of the person.  But in others, it serves as a reminder to those who call the name.  So by naming a kid "Jesus" in such a culture would NOT be to imply that the kid IS Jesus.  But that the kid is to remind people of Jesus every time they say his name.  It is common practice in India to name children after the various Gods and Goddesses.  It was common practice in the Bible to name kids names of God.  For example, Tovia means "Good God,"  "Hezekiah" means "Mighty God," and so on.  Isaiah gave his children names that were whole phrases.  They were actually prophecies.  He did this so that when people said the name of his children, they would remember the message that is being conveyed in the name, such as "God is with us" (Immanuel).  Naming a kid "Emmanuel" or Immanuel is not to say that the kid IS God, but that the name serves as a reminder that God is with us.\n\nSo, it all depends on the culture and the reason for the name.\n\nI also would like to point out to the person who said it doesn't matter because it is pronounced differently, that Hey-Soos IS the way you say the Lord Jesus's name if you speak Spanish.  Spanish people do not pronounce a J sound, but use an H sound for that letter.  So the name IS the same as Christ's.
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A couple of reasons:\n\nFirst, Jesus is the Savior of all mankind, so people tend to depict Jesus as one of their own, whatever race. It makes Him easier to relate to, perhaps.\n\nSecond, because the Bible says that Jesus was a descendant of King David who, as a boy was described this way:\n\n"He was ruddy , with a fine appearance and handsome features" (1 Samuel 16:12).\n\n"Ruddy" indicates a rosy appearance. How many races of people have that? As well, in Genesis 25:25 it is recorded that when the twins, Jacob (ie, Israel) and Esau, were born, Esau was covered with red hair. Same question. \n\nNow Jesus was way down the family line, and his lineage mentions people from other groups marrying into the tree, so Jesus could have been very white to rather brown. At the time though, he didn't have any appearance that set him apart from the appearance of his fellow Jews of the time.
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It has been reported that Jesus had olive tan skin...because the people of the area were like that...he was a jewish man and jews were tanned originally..u know...arabs and jews are cousins and all..\n\nanyway...\n\nit doesnt matter what color is..\n\npeople shud wake up and stop calling a human being God when it just means: God chose to come down as a human man who has olive skin...thats so messed up...God does not have preference....Jesus ..aint God. Hes just so close to God that any ol christian can see that through his message...but he was still a human...loved by God...loved so much that he was given one of the biggest miracles...to bring the dead alive by His will.
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Well, easy.. because Jesus is not God neither the son of God... he's a prophet like the rest of them and a human like the rest of us.. he used to eat, drink, get hurt, laugh and suffer.\nThe word "son" in hebrew is also translated as "servant" which could be seen as Servant of God, or Slave of God. Also, the Bible has been changed many times to fit certain situations, so maybe at a certain point it seemed suitable to make Jesus become the "son" or a "god"! Or maybe some Rabbis in ancient times translated it this way in order to put Christians astray... you'll never know why it became like this!\n\nActually, you're asking if he's God or His son why did he die? Worse, how could Satan seduce him in the desert? How could Satan seduce his creator? Also, it is weird to think that God needs to become human in order to understand us!! It's funny!
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In Latin it is Iesus or Jesus (there is no J sound in Latin though and the two are pronunced the same). That comes from the Greek Ιησούς (Iesus), which is what the New Testament was written in. He and his disciples, and basically all of the Jews at the time, spoke Aramaic, and in that language, he was called יֶשוּע (Yeshua), which is derived from the Hebrew name ֶהוֹֹשֻע (Yehoshua), usually translitterated as Joshua.