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jesus
/ˈd͡ʒizəs/
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What does jesus mean?
noun
- The Christian savior.
verb
- (informal) To exclaim Jesus at someone.
proper noun
- Jesus of Nazareth, a first-century Jewish religious preacher and craftsman (commonly understood to have been a carpenter) from Galilee held to be a prophet, teacher, the Son of God, and the Messiah, or Christ, in Christianity; also called "Jesus Christ" by Christians. Held to be a prophet by Muslims and Baháʼís. Also called "the historical Jesus" from a historiographic viewpoint or a secular one.
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proper noun
- A male given name from Spanish in Spanish culture; an anglicized spelling of Jesús.
- A male given name from Aramaic.
- (informal) Ellipsis of Jesus College, Cambridge.
- (informal) Ellipsis of Jesus College, Oxford.
- (historical) One of a variety of persons or entities in western Manichaeism, of whom some correspond closely to the Christian conception of Jesus of Nazareth.
interjection
- (offensive) An exclamation, particularly used to express excitement or exasperation.
verb
- (derogatory, humorous) To subject to (excessive) Christian proselytizing, preaching, or moralizing.
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IPA pronunciation
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There was not a greater preacher than the woman at the well that brought out the city of Samaria to see Jesus.
Of all the great founders of religions, Jesus is at once the best known and the least known to the modern scholar.
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Sin is an exacting despot who can be vanquished by no created power, but by the sovereign power of Jesus Christ alone.
So the mothers of the little children did not hear about Jesus and so could not teach their little ones about him.
These enterprising sea-rovers piously named it "Jesus Fort," and an inscription recording this is still to be seen over the main entrance.