Joshua vs Ben - What's the difference?
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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:
(Scotland, northern England) In, into.
* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 32:
Inner, interior.
(Scotland, Northern England) Ben-room: The inner room of a two-room hut or shack (as opposed to the but).
A tree, Moringa oleifera or horseradish tree of Arabia and India, which produces oil of ben.
The winged seed of the ben tree.
The oil of the ben seed.
(usually, capitalised) Son of (used with Hebrew and Arabic surnames).
As a proper noun joshua
is the sixth book of the old testament of bible, and a book of the tanakh.As an adverb ben is
well.joshua
English
(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,
ben
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ben, bene, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) ben, bene, variation of bin, .Preposition
(English prepositions)- And he was waving to me to creep in, so I just did and then just to skip ben the front and then in the lobby.