H3470

Ysha`yah

yesh-ah-yaw'

Proper Name Masculine

or Yshayahuw {yesh-ah-yaw'-hoo}; from H3467 and H3050; Jah has saved; Jeshajah, the name of seven Israelites:--Isaiah, Jesaiah, Jeshaiah.

Isaiah or Jesaiah or Jeshaiah = "Jehovah has saved"

1. the major prophet, son of Amoz, who prophesied concerning Judah and Jerusalem during the days of kings Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah of Judah; author of the prophetic book by his name; tradition has it that he was sawn asunder in the trunk of a carob tree by king Manasseh and that this is the incident referred to in Heb 11:37
2. son of Hananiah, brother of Pelatiah, and grandson of Zerubbabel
3. a Benjamite
4. one of the 6 sons of Jeduthun
5. son of Rehabiah, a descendant of Moses through Gershom, and an ancestor of a Levite treasurer in the time of David
6. son of Athaliah and chief of the house of Elam who returned with Ezra
7. a chief of the descendants of Merari who returned with Ezra