interstellarskeletons:
kineticpenguin:
useless-netherlandsfacts:
maltese-boy:
rottenplantt:
commie-saskia:
languageoclock:
you-had-me-at-e-flat-major:
watercolorsheep:
catchingjinns:
spirited-simmer:
my-name-is-long:
renaissavce:
roumanian:
english: coconut oil
french: :)
english: oh boy
french: oil of the nut of the coco
IM CRYINGNFN
english: ninety-nine
french: :)
english: oh no
french: four-twenty-ten-nine
english: potato
french: :)
english: oh geez
french: apple of the earth
french: papillon
english: :)
french: don’t
english: beurremouche
French: pamplemousse
English: :)
French: pls no
English: raisinfruit
english: squirrel
german: :)
english: oh dear
german: oak croissant
english: helicopter
german: :)
english: uh oh
german: lifting screwdriver
english: toes
spanish: :)
english: no don’t
spanish
: fingers of the feet
english: ladybug
russian: :)
english: oh no
russian: god’s cow
english: shark
maltese: :)
english: pls no
maltese: sea dog
English: leopard
Dutch: :)
English: stop
Dutch: lazy horse
English: glove
German: :)
English: what now
German: hand shoe
english: jellyfish
danish: :)
english: oh god
danish: water man

elevenses-on-trenzalore:
zemedelphos:
vagabondaesthetics:
thefemaletyrant:
generalbriefing:
So….I totally never thought about this. I’m sure very few of you have. I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit disturbed…
Wow. Food for thought. I’m sure there’s an answer though.
Their names were translated/Anglicized after going from Greek to English.
The names of the Apostles are of Greek, Aramaic and Hebrew origins. The Hebrew, Aramaic and “Greek” named Apostles were:
Shim’on = Simon (Hebrew origin).
Y’hochanan = John (Hebrew origin).
Mattithyahu = Matthew (Hebrew origin).
Ya’aqov = James (Hebrew origin meaning Jacob).
Bar-Tôlmay = Bartholomew (Aramaic, which is related to Hebrew).
Judah = Jude / Saint Jude (not to be confused with Judas Iscariot, Hebrew origin).
Yehuda = Judas Iscariot (Hebrew origin, Betrayed Yeshua/Yehosua the Messiah).
Cephas / Kephas = Peter (Hebrew / Aramaic origin meaning “Rock”).
Tau’ma = Thomas (Aramaic origin).
Andrew = Andrew (Greek origin. Is the brother of Cephas / Kephas).
Phillip = Phillip (Greek origin).
You will note that there are only 11 names, that is because there were 2 Apostles named Ya’aqov (James), which brings the total to 12 apostles.
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To expand on this, Jesus’s name is Anglicized in this way as well. We get Jesus from the Latin form of the Greek “Ἰησοῦς”(Iēsous), which is derived from the Herbrew “ישוע”(Yeshu’a, which meant “YHWH is Salvaion”, YHWH, or Yahweh being the name of God). When another form of that name, ” יְהוֹשֻׁעַ”(Yeoshu’a) was allowed to Anglicize through a different set of corruptions, it entered the English Language through Reformist Protestants as the name “Joshua”.
Yes. Jesus’s actual name is Joshua.
joshua christ this is fascinating