Early Syriac alphabet form of the name of Jesus

Ishoʿ (īšōʕ), a cognate of the Hebrew term Yeshu, is the Eastern Syriac pronunciation of the Aramaic form of the name of Jesus. It is still commonly used as a name for Jesus among

Syriac Christians Syriac Christianity ( syr, ܡܫܝܚܝܘܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ / ''Mšiḥoyuṯo Suryoyto'' or ''Mšiḥāyūṯā Suryāytā'') is a distinctive branch of Eastern Christianity, whose formative theological writings and traditional liturgies are expr ...

of the Middle East and Saint Thomas Christians of India. Persons with this name include: *

Ishoʿ of Merv Ishoʿ of Merv (Syriac: ''Ishoʿ Maruzaya'', Arabic: ''ʿĪsā al-Marwazī'') was an East Syrian lexicographer of the 9th century AD. He was a native of Merv in the Abbasid Caliphate. He wrote a now lost glossary of Syriac words, which was used by ...

Isho Bar Nun Ishoʿ bar Nun was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 823 to 828. He succeeded Timothy I, widely considered to be the most impressive of the Nestorian patriarchs. Sources Brief accounts of Ishoʿ bar Nun's patriarchate are given in the ''E ...

* Isho Shiba Names with Ishoʿ as a component include

Ishoʿbokht Ishoʿbokht (late 7th or late 8th century) was a Persian legal scholar, Christian theologian and philosopher. He is known through his writings and a few references to them. His dates are not known precisely and little can be said of his life other t ...

, Ishoʿdad,

Ishoʿdnaḥ Ishoʿdnaḥ ( syr, ܝܫܘܥܕܢܚ; fl. 9th century) was a historian and hagiographer of the Church of the East who served as the metropolitan bishop of Mayshan at Baṣra. Some manuscripts refer to him as metropolitan of the diocese of Qasra, b ...

Ishoʿsabran Ishoʿsabran (Syriac language, Syriac: ܝܫܘܥܣܒܪܢ, ''Īšōʿsawrān''), born Mahanosh, was a Persians, Persian Zoroastrian convert to Christianity who was martyred in the Sasanian Empire in 620 or 621. He is commemorated as a saint in the Eas ...

and Ishoʿyahb.

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