a savior; a deliverer
(same as Joshua)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Jehosh'ua (whose help is Jehovah; Help of Jehovah or saviour). In this form is given the name of Joshua in Num_13:16. Once more only the name appears, as Jehosh'uah.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
jē̇-hosh?ū̇-a (יהושׁע, yehōshua‛, ?Yahweh is deliverance,? or ?is opulence?): The usual Hebrew form of the name ?Joshua?; it occurs in the King James Version of Num_13:16 (the American Standard Revised Version ?Hoshea?); and in some editions of the King James Version in 1Ch_7:27, where others have the form ?Jehoshuah? (h being wrongly added at the end). See JOSHUA, SON OF NUN.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Jehoshua
(Num_13:16), or Jehosh'uah (1Ch_7:27). SEE JOSHUA.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.