Johan vs Joshua - What's the difference?
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* 1893 Frank Peel, Spen Valley, Past and Present , Senior and Co., 1893, page 64:
*:William, the youthful heir, grew up, married and died, as we have already seen, of the sweating sickness, leaving only a daughter named Johan or Jennett, who was but two months old at his death;
The sixth book of the Old Testament of Bible, and a book of the Tanakh.
The son of Nun, Judge of Israel following Moses; author of the Book of Joshua; Quranic figure.
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* 1835 The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds. To Which is Prefixed a Memoir by H.W.Beechey , London:T.Cadell, Strand, page 33:
As proper nouns the difference between johan and joshua
is that johan is , an equivalent of john while joshua is the sixth book of the old testament of bible, and a book of the tanakh.johan
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Proper noun
(en proper noun)Usage notes
* Included in the hundred most common given names of women born in Scotland in 1900. ----joshua
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(Book of Joshua)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- 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.
- "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 uncommon, occurs less frequently than many others." But another biographer has suggested, with more appearance of reason, that it was probably given to him because an uncle, who was one of his godfathers, bore the same name,