Josh.

Proper noun

Joshua

1. The sixth book of the Old Testament of the Bible, and a book of the Tanakh.

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   Josh.

2. The son of Nun, Judge of Israel following Moses; author of the Book of Joshua; Quranic figure.
   • So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joshua 11:23
3. A male given name from Hebrew.
   • "His father had a notion," observes Malone, on the authority of Dr. Percy, Bishop of Dromore, "that it might at some future period of his life be an advantage to a child to bear an uncommon Christian name, - - - Hence our author derived the scriptural name of Joshua, which, though not very...1835, “The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds. To Which is Prefixed a Memoir by H.W.Beechey”, in Strand, London: T. Cadell, page 33
4. A surname, transferred from the given name
   • Anthony Joshua
5. A city in Johnson County, Texas, United States, named after the biblical Joshua.

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