What does the name Jesus mean anyway, you ask?
It literally means YAH will save. It’s made up of a two-word combination. The first is the four letters that represent God’s name Y-H-W-H. And the second is Ya-shah, which means to save or deliver. So properly combined it would be YAHOSHAYAH, or more commonly pronounced Yehoshuwa, and more common than that, Yeshua. Translated to Greek Iesous, then Jésus, to Jesus. Jesus’ name was/is a prophecy in itself.
Okay. I hear you asking yourself, how did we get from ghetto names to this, right?
Well…a lot of these unique Black American names have a representation of God’s own very name in it. It’s the same name at the end of the word Hallelujah.
The suffix -iah or -YAH in a name is the summoning of God himself. A short representation of God’s name is YAH or as the Jamaicans say, JAH. Aaliyah is one of these names that has God’s name in it, and a version of that name is used by Jewish people as a term for the right of return to Israel. It is also used by Jewish people to designate the honor of being called up to read the Torah.