Soā¦.I totally never thought about this. Iām sure very few of you have. I donāt know about you, but Iām a bit disturbedā¦
Wow. Food for thought. Iām sure thereās an answer though.
Their names were translated/Anglicized after going from Greek to English.
The names of the Apostles are of Greek, Aramaic and Hebrew origins. The Hebrew, Aramaic and āGreekā named Apostles were: Shimāon = Simon (Hebrew origin). Yāhochanan = John (Hebrew origin). Mattithyahu = Matthew (Hebrew origin). Yaāaqov = James (Hebrew origin meaning Jacob). Bar-TĆ“lmay = Bartholomew (Aramaic, which is related to Hebrew). Judah = Jude / Saint Jude (not to be confused with Judas Iscariot, Hebrew origin). Yehuda = Judas Iscariot (Hebrew origin, Betrayed Yeshua/Yehosua the Messiah). Cephas / Kephas = Peter (Hebrew / Aramaic origin meaning āRockā). Tauāma = Thomas (Aramaic origin). Andrew = Andrew (Greek origin. Is the brother of Cephas / Kephas). Phillip = Phillip (Greek origin). You will note that there are only 11 names, that is because there were 2 Apostles named Yaāaqov (James), which brings the total to 12 apostles.
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To expand on this, Jesusās name is Anglicized in this way as well. We get Jesus from the Latin form of the Greek āį¼øĪ·ĻοῦĻā(IÄsous), which is derived from the Herbrew ā×ש××¢ā(Yeshuāa, which meant āYHWH is Salvaionā, YHWH, or Yahweh being the name of God). When another form of that name, ā ×Ö°××ֹשֻ××¢Ö·ā(Yeoshuāa) was allowed to Anglicize through a different set of corruptions, it entered the English Language through Reformist Protestants as the name āJoshuaā. Yes. Jesusās actual name is Joshua.
joshua christ this is fascinating
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