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Ehyeh asher ehyeh (Hebrew: אהיה אשר אהיה) is the sole response given to Moses when he asks for God’s name (Exodus 3:14). It is one of the most famous verses in the Hebrew Bible.

The Tetragrammaton itself derives from the same verbal root. The King James version of the Bible translates the Hebrew as “I am that I am” and uses it as a proper name for God.

The Aramaic Targum Onkelos leaves the phrase untranslated and is so quoted in the Talmud (B. B. 73a).

Ehyeh is the first-person singular imperfect form of hayah, “to be”. Ehyeh is usually translated “I will be,” since the imperfect tense in Hebrew denotes actions that are not yet completed (e.g. Exodus 3:12, “Certainly I will be [ehyeh] with thee.”)

Asher is an ambiguous pronoun which can mean, depending on context, “that”, “who”, “which”, or “where”.

Therefore, although Ehyeh asher ehyeh is generally rendered in English “I am that I am,” better renderings might be “I will be what I will be” or “I will be who I will be”, or even “I will be because I will be.” In these renderings, the phrase becomes an open-ended gloss on God’s promise in Exodus 3:12, with a meaning similar to the Italian proverb “Que sera, sera.”

Other renderings include:

Leeser, “I WILL BE THAT I WILL BE”; Rotherham, “I Will Become whatsoever I please.” Gr., E•go′ ei•mi ho on (εγω ειμι ο ων), “I am The Being” in the Septuagint” or, “I am The Existing One”;

Lat., e′go sum qui sum, “I am Who I am.”

The Hebrew name of God Elyon  occurs in combination with El, YHWH or Elohim, and also alone.

It means “the  Most High” (from to go up”) or “the exalted One” (Gen.14:17-20;  Ps. 18:13 Is.14:13,14).

It appears chiefly in poetic and later Biblical passages. The modern Hebrew adjective “`Elyon” means “supreme” (as in “Supreme Court”) or “Most High”. The Phoenicians used what appears to be a similar name for God, Έλιον. It is cognate to the Arabic `Aliyy.e

El Elyon has been traditionally translated into English as ‘God Most High’.

See Dt. 26:19;  32:8   Ps. 18:13;  78:35;  7:17;  18:13;  97:9;  56:2;  78:56;  18:13  Dan. 7:25,27   Is.14:14

The Greek counterpart: Hupistos

The NT Greek uses the form hupistos meaning “highest” or “most exalted”. Jesus was known as, and called, the Son of the Most High God (Mk.5:7 Lk. 1:32,33; 6:28)

The Holy Spirit is the power of the Most High (Lk. 1:35).

John the Baptist would be known as a prophet of the Most High God (Lk. 1:76)

Jesus taught his disciples to “love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back”, because in so doing, their reward will be great and they will prove that they are “sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked” (Lk. 6:35).

The Most High God is far too great and magnificent to be limited to houses made by men ( Ac. 7:48-50)

The early apostles were known as servants of the Most High God (Ac. 16:17).

Melchizedek was king of Salem and priest of the Most High God (Heb.7:1 with Gen.14:17-20).

 
Yeshua is the original Hebrew proper name for Jesus of Nazareth, who lived from about 6 B.C.E. to 27 A.D. In other words, Yeshua was the name His family would call Him. Since most scholars hold that Jesus was an Aramaic-speaking Jew living in Galilee around it is highly improbable that he had a Greek personal name.

In Hebrew Yeshua means both “Salvation,” and the concatenated form of Yahoshua, the “LORD who is Salvation.”  “He will save”, Is.43:3

The name Jesus has no intrinsic meaning in English, except as it is known as His name in English. (Therefore, we cannot deny the name Jesus, since this name commonly identifies the Messiah to English speaking people.)  

The English form Jesus is derived from the New Testament Greek name Ihsouß, pronounced “Yesous.” According to Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the bible, Yesous (Strong’s #2424) is “of Hebrew origin” and can be traced back to Joshua’s Hebrew name, Yehoshua (#3091, [wvwhy).

But how do we get the Greek Yesous from the Hebrew Yehoshua?

The name Joshua sometimes appears in its shortened form, Yeshua ([wvy) in Neh. 8:17 it is apparent even in English: “Jeshua the son of Nun.” (The letter J was pronounced like a Y in Old English.) Strong does not tell the reader that the Greek Yesous is actually transliterated from this shortened Hebrew form, Yeshua, and not directly from the longer form Yehoshua.

The process from “Yehoshua” to “Jesus” looks like this:

Hebrew Yehoshua à Hebrew Yeshua
Hebrew Yeshua à Greek Yesous
Greek Yesous à English Jesus

There is no “sh” sound in Greek, which accounts for the middle “s” sound in Yesous. The “s” at the end of the Greek name is a grammatical necessity, to make the word declinable.

In Neh. 8:17, Joshua’s name is 100% identical to the name which today’s Messianic Jews use for the Messiah, Yeshua ([wvy). Strong’s confirms this pronunciation, and tells us that there were ten Israelites in the Bible who bore this name (#3442). Therefore the shortening of Yehoshua to Yeshua predates the Christian era by at least 500 years. The form Yeshua existed for several hundred years before the Messiah was even born. Even in the pre-Christian Septuagint, we see the Greek form IHSOUS (Yesous) in the title of the Book of Joshua. (This is also proof that Yesous has no connection to the pagan god Zeus.)
 
YESHUA THE SAVIOR

Many people of the world believe Yeshua to be the promised Lamb of God, who was chosen to be sacrificed for all mankind’s sin. The Bible declares that mankind must have a blood sacrifice to substitute punishment for their sins by placing them on the sacrifice, figuratively speaking. The sacrifice has to be blameless, else the punishment could not be substituted, since the thing sacrificed would be dying for its own sins. Clean and spotless animals were once sacrificed as a temporal measure until a fully qualified sacrifice could be supplied at the proper time. Followers of Yeshua believe He was that perfect sacrifice. He is a man, who could be properly substituted for mankind, yet God in the flesh, for only God is sinless. Only God Himself is a pure enough sacrifice to satisfy His holy justice, for all men have sinned.
Yeshua came speaking the Torah Word of God with absolute authority. He made no mistake in regards to all God’s commands. Only God Himself could act this way. For this reason people accept Yeshua as God in the flesh. Not that God is consigned or limited to flesh, but that He can manifest Himself in whatever form He pleases to fulfill His task. Yeshua of Nazareth was and is the form of flesh that God was manifest in. In this form, Yeshua is the Son of God and the Son of Man.
 
 
YESHUA THE MESSIAH
 
Messiah in Hebrew is “maschiah” and in Greek: Christ. Messiah is not a name but a title and means “anointed one”.
 
Messianic Psalms Ps.2:1-12   67:1-7  68:1-35  69:1-36  72:1-20  96:1-13  98:1-9  110:1-7
 
Prophecies concerning the Messiah:  Dan. 9:25,26  Acts. 3:18-20
 
Simeon’s testimony to the Messiah: Jn.1:41,45
 
Peter’s confession of the Messiah: Mt.16:15,16  Mk:8:29  Lk. 9:20  Jn. 6:69
 
Jesus was proclaimed as Messiah by the apostles: Act. 9:22  13:27  17:2,3  26:6,7,22,23  28:23  Ro.1:1-3  1 Co. 15:3  1P.1:10,11  2P. 1:16-18  1 Jn. 5:6-9
 
Jesus’ own testimony to his messiahship (Mt. 11:3-6  26:63,64  Lk. 24:27  Jn.4:25,26,29,42  5:33,36,37,39,46  6:27  8:14,17-18,25,28,56  13:19
 
Jesus was called David’s son:  Mt.22:42-45  Mk.12:35-37  Lk.20:41-44
 
Jesus is the anointed of God : Ps.2:2  Acts. 4:26,27