THE NAMES OF GOD

NAMES OF GOD IN THE BIBLE: A DISPENSATIONAL APPROACH : PROF. M. M. NINAN
The name Yesu is used in the Dravidian languages where St.Thomas brought in Christianity within 10
to 20 years of the Pentecost.
The name of Christ comes from the Greek word for "anointed."
The Greek word "Khristos" comes from the word for "oil."
Msheekha: The Anointed
In Greek the full name is
Kyrios Iesous Christos
(“Lord Jesus Christ”)
As we can see the name is pronounced by various people depending on the phonetic system of the
language.
The most common Christogram is "IHS" or "IHC", denoting the first three letters of the Greek name of
Jesus, iota-eta-sigma, or ΙΗΣ. The Greek letter iota is represented by I, and the eta by H, while the
Greek letter sigma is either in its lunate form, represented by C, or its final form, represented by S.
Because the Latin-alphabet letters I and J were not systematically distinguished until the 17th century,
"JHS" and "JHC" are equivalent to "IHS" and "IHC".
The Latin "IHS" is sometimes interpreted as meaning
Iesus Hominum Salvator
"Jesus, Savior of men"
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