From the Hebrew namemeaning, from the rootsreferring to the Hebrew God andmeaning "to save". As told in the Old Testament , Joshua was a companion of Moses . He went up Mount Sinai with Moses when he received the Ten Commandments from God, and later he was one of the twelve spies sent into Canaan. After Moses died Joshua succeeded him as leader of the Israelites and he led the conquest of Canaan. His original name was

The namecomes from a Greek translation of the Aramaic short form, which was the real name of Jesus. As an English name,has been in use since the Protestant Reformation