Scriptural Names

Language: Aramaic

Pronunciation: Ye-shu-ah Me-shi-aacc

Meaning: “Jesus Christ” or “Messiah Jesus”; Yeshua is a contracted form of Joshua, which means “Yahweh is salvation”: “Christ” is from the Greek form of “Messiah”, which is Hebrew for “annointed.”

In Revelation 19.11-21, Jesus is described as the Divine Warrior (rider of the white horse) who has inscribed on his thigh the title, “King of kings” and “Lord of lords” (v.16). When these two titles are transcribed back into Aramaic, as shown below, the numeric equivalent of the spelling adds up to 777 (the numeric equivalent of each letter is listed below the letter). He is the antidote of the hellish warrior in 13.1 on whose heads were “blasphemous names” and the beast whose name is hidden by the number 666 (13.18). In Aramaic, “King of kings” and “Lord of lords” is written like this:

Here is an artist’s depiction:

Cephas means “stone” in Aramaic and is written like this:

Abba means “father” in Aramaic.

There are various ways to write Aramaic, just as other languages often have more than one script. The Aramaic language of the ancient Assyrians derives from the Phoenician, whose alphabet was as follows:

Ancient Aramaic was written like this:

Compare that with the script of other ancient languages:

Biblical scholars today generally use the Hebrew alphabet and characters as the same alphabet to write in Aramaic.