Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • Jewish religious leader who was crucified in Jerusalem after his teaching and reported miracle-working incurred the disfavor of the Roman government of Palestine. In Christianity, Jesus is seen as Christ and as the Son of God.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The Greek form of Joshua, used in the authorized version of the Bible twice to designate the Jewish leader so named (Acts vii. 45, Heb. iv. 8), once to designate a man called Justus (Col. iv. 11), and elsewhere as the personal name of the Saviour, frequently conjoined with Christ, the Anointed, the official title.
  • noun With the article, a representation of the crucifixion or of the ecce homo, or even of the mere emblem of Christ, such as the I. H. S. or : used in old inventories, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • proper noun The savior; the name of the Son of God as announced by the angel to his parents; the personal name of Our Lord, in distinction from Christ, his official appellation.
  • proper noun The Roman Catholic order whose members are called Jesuits. See Jesuit.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun Jesus of Nazareth, a Jewish man whom Christians call Jesus Christ in belief that he is the Messiah.
  • proper noun A male given name in Spanish culture; an anglicized spelling of Jesús.
  • noun A Christian savior.
  • noun An artistic representation of a Christian savior.
  • interjection An expletive, whose use is considered blasphemous in some Christian sects.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity (circa 4 BC - AD 29)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Late Latin Iēsus, from Greek Iēsous, from Hebrew yēšûă‘, from yəhôšûa‘, Joshua; see Joshua.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Ancient Greek Ἰησοῦς, from Hebrew ישוע. The Greek text makes no distinction between Jesus and Joshua, referring to them both as Ἰησοῦς. The Latin Vulgate is likely the earliest to make a distinction, referring to Jesus as Iesus and Joshua as Iosue.

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  • Who killed Jesus is a topic of much debate: was it the Jews, the Romans, a combination, Jesus\ 'own father, a plot requirement?

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  • Who killed Jesus is a topic of much debate: was it the Jews, the Romans, a combination, Jesus\ 'own father, a plot requirement?

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  • JESUS LOVES FAGS because it's true and it gets in the face of everybody--the fundamentalists, the evangelicals, the strict secularists, the atheists, the public schools, and some gay people who don't realize yet that Jesus loves them.

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