In the phrase, Jesus H Christ, what does the "H" stand for?
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The H stands for Harold, as in, "Our Father, who art in heaven, Harold be thy name" (snort).\n\nActually, I've heard numerous explanations for the H over the years. The first is that it stands for "Holy," as in Jesus Holy Christ, a common enough blasphemy in the South, abridged to H by fast-talking Northerners. Other colorful Southern epithets include Jesus Hebe Christ and Jesus Hebrew Christ, which abbreviate the same way. The drawback of this account is that it is so boring I can barely type it without falling asleep. Luckily, the other theories are more entertaining: \n\n(1) It stands for "Haploid." This is an old bio major joke, referring to the unique (not to say immaculate) circumstances of Christ's conception. Having no biological father, J.C. was shortchanged in the chromosome department to the tune of one half. Ingenious, I'll admit, but whimsy has no place in a serious investigation such as this. \n\n(2) It recalls the H in the IHS logo emblazoned on much Christian paraphernalia. IHS dates from the earliest years of Christianity, being an abbreviation of "Jesus" in classical Greek characters. The Greek pronunciation is "Iesous," with the E sound being represented by the character eta, which looks like an H. When the symbol passed to Christian Romans, for whom an H was an H, the unaccountable character eventually became accepted as Jesus's middle initial. \n\n(3) Finally, a reader makes the claim that the H derives from the taunting Latin inscription INRH that was supposedly tacked on the cross by Roman soldiers: Iesus Nazarenus, Rex Hebrei (Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Hebrews). Trouble is, the inscription is usually given as INRI: Iesus Nazarenus, Rex Iudaeorum (J.C., King of the Jews). \n\nNonetheless, this is the kind of creative thinking I like to see from my Teeming Millions. With every passing day, my mission on this earth comes closer to completion.
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The answer is in verse one.\n\n"The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants—things which must shortly take place. And He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John, who bore witness to the word of God, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all things that he saw."
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It's probably a replacement word for using Jesus' name improperly.  I also use "holy swiss," and "cheese and rice" as replacements in polite enough company.
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The letter X in Xtian or Xian does not stand for taking the Christ out of it. Europeans in the 16th century started using X in place of Christ's name as shorthand for writing Christ. The Christian monks and scholars were knowledgeable of the Greek letter X, - Chi or Khi - which is the first letter in the Greek word "Christos" or "Kristos" (Greek: CristoV) The Greek and Hebrew word "Christos" comes out "Messiah" and mean the same thing: "The anointed One." For many years the X was understood by Christian clergy and as time passed, many Christians, educated and not, were not aware of the meaning.
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It's called an Icthyus It'an acronym Jesus Christ Son and Savior in Greek Alphabet
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Christ is not a last name--it is an honorary epithet meaning "the anointed one" in Greek (Christos). The New Testament was written in Greek, and the Gospel writers used this term to indicate that Jesus was the Messiah.
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I agree with you, depending upon your language preference it varies, but his name is Jehovah , or JHVH, or in hebrew Yahweh YHWH, it used to be in most bibles but today it's been removed from most
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Jesus is the word of God, Jesus is the resurrection, Jesus is God.\n\nJoh 11:25  Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: \n\nJoh 1:1  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
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IESVS NAZARENVS REX IVDAEORVM\n\nSince anyone who would actually see the paintings of the Crucifixion in the Middle Ages (inside a Church) would then already be familiar with the phrase (in Latin), the painters all apparently chose to simplify their paintings by only including the initials of the four Latin words, I N R I. The early Church had also apparently used that abbreviation.\n\nLuke 23:38 also mentions the sign on the Cross, and he mentions that the sign was written in three languages, Greek, Latin and Hebrew. Scholars then chose to follow the wording presented in John, as it is more complete by including the reference to Nazareth, and as it might be presenting the Latin version of the text on the Cross. In all three languages the first word was Jesus, but since Greek and Hebrew don't use the letter J, His Name was spelled beginning with an I. The Roman (Latin) spelling followed that, (IESVS) even though their language included a J. The second word represented Nazareth, or Nazarene, N. The third word represented king, which in Latin (REX) begins with an R. The fourth word represented Jews, (IVDAEORVM) again spelled beginning with an I. You can see that the INRI then says "Jesus Nazareth King Jews".
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(for the greek version) it is "I N B I"\nIt is an abbreviation consisted of the initial letters of the greek words as follow:\n\nI  --> IHSOYS (Jesus), pronounced roughly as “e-e-sous”\nN --> NAZWRAIOS, pronounced roughly as "na-zor-a-os", (Nazarene)\nB --> BASILEYS, pronounced roughly as "va-seal-a-fs" (King)\nI  --> IOYDAIWN, pronounced roughly as "e-ou-deon" (of the Judaeans)\n\nSo, it reads: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS\n\n(cf. John 19:19) Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, "JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS."\n\nGod bless.
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Jesus Christ\n\nMic 5:2  But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.\n\nMic 5:2 - But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah,.... But though Jerusalem should be besieged and taken, and the land of Judea laid waste, yet, before all this should be, the Messiah should be born in Bethlehem, of which this is a prophecy, as is evident from Mat_2:4; the place is called by both the names it went by, to point it out the more distinctly, and with the greater certainty, Gen_35:19; the former signifies "the house of bread", and a proper place for Christ to be born in, who is the bread of life; and it has the name of the latter from its fruitfulness, being a place of pasture, and as we find it was at the time of our Lord's birth; for near it shepherds were then watching over their flocks; and it is here added, to distinguish it from another Bethlehem in the tribe of Zebulun, Jos_19:15; from which tribe the Messiah was not to come, but from the tribe of Judah; and in which this Bethlehem was, and therefore called, by Matthew, Bethlehem in the land of Judah; as it appears this was, from Rth_1:1.
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I never understand how x can stand for Christ. It make no sense. It is not like 2 for to,too,two or 4 for for,four.
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Meghan, honey, the word "with" has an "h" in it, and the word "then" is spelled with a "th", not a "d". Do you think Jesus would be happy if he knew you were intentionally misspelling words and trying to make yourself look stupid so that you'll fit in with the ghetto crowd? Do you think Jesus would be happy if he knew that you were trying to get a date?
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Jesus Christ.\n\nJAMES 1:27\n Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
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Occasionally, "Jehovah" is represented as "JHVH", although in Hebrew the Tetragrammatton's equivalent Roman letters are "YHWH". It seems unlikely that "JWH" is intended as an abbreviation for "Jehovah".\n\nThe Hebrew name “Yahweh” (or “Yehowah”) seems to accurately pronounce the divine name. Just as the Hebrew name “Yeshua” (or “Yehoshua”) is translated into “Jesus” in English, the Hebrew name “Yahweh” is translated into “Jehovah” in English.\n\nThe important thing is to use God’s personal name in whatever language you speak, rather than insisting upon the impersonal! The name “Yahweh” is certainly preferable to the non-name “God” or “Lord”. If you speak English, feel free to use the name "Jehovah".\n\n(Psalms 83:18) That people may know that you, whose name is Jehovah, You alone are the Most High over all the earth\n\n(John 17:26) [Jesus said] I have made your name known to them and will make it known, in order that the love with which you loved me may be in them
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INRI is an abbreviation of the Latin phrase IESVS NAZARENVS REX IVDAEORVM (Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum),  which translates to English as: "Jesus the Nazarene, the King of the Jews" (or, in more natural English, "Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews").
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Scripture references Jesus as a man... He is called the "Son of God".....\n\nThat's how I know him......\n\n\nyour sister,\nGinger