The true name of the Savior is Yashua. "Yashua" in the Hebrew language means, "Yawheh is Salvation." (He was Hebrew, not Greek, as "Jesus" implies.)

Proving this name in the King James Version can be a challenge, but it is possible. The KJV has circumvented the Hebrew name and used its highly altered form, which went from Hebrew to Greek to Latin to English to give us "Jesus."

His name is the same as that found in Numbers 13:16, where Moses called one named Oshea "Joshua" (Oshea is the second part of the name Yah-shua). Understand that the letter J did not exist until about 500 years ago. Strong’s Concordance, under the entry for "Joshua," reveals closely related names by saying, "See also Hosea, Hoshea, Jehoshuah, Jeshua, Jeshuah, Jesus, Osea, Oshea." Thus "Jesus" is cognate to Yahshua.

Joshua, who led the Israelites into the Promised Land, is a prototype Savior who leads His people into the kingdom. Hence, it is no mere coincidence that their names are the same. Both lead others to a type of salvation. Joshua was the son of Nun, and Nun in Hebrew means perpetuity, just as Yahshua is the Son of the perpetual, Eternal One.

This Joshua is the same one spoken of in Hebrews 4:8, which is mistranslated "Jesus," and should have been Yahshua (the correct form of Joshua). See the same editing mistake in Acts 7:45. It was "Joshua" who was meant (correctly, Yahshua), not Jesus!

In Matthew 1:21, the angel told the Hebrew father Joseph that the Savior would be named Yahshua, "for He shall save His people from their sins." That is what the name Yahshua means in Hebrew. "Jesus" has no such meaning in the Hebrew. It is a Latinized Greek hybrid, as foreign to the context as a German name in a family of Chinese.

In Zechariah 6:11-12 we see the high priest Joshua (Yahshua) getting a crown of silver and gold. In verse 12 we find that this name is connected to the BRANCH, which prophetically points to the Savior (Isaiah 11:1) who would build the temple of Yahweh.

Some pronounce His Name "Yahoshua," although the "o" is the waw and if pronounced would represent more of a "w" sound—Yahwshua. The Yemenite Jews still pronounce waw "w."