The Covenant Meaning Behind the Name of Isaiah’s Son

John W. Welch

Isaiah gave the name of his son as "Shearjashub," which has been proposed to mean "a remnant shall return." Perhaps this was not a birth name, but maybe a bar mitzvah or a covenant name. The covenant of the Lord was that a remnant would return.

Further Reading

Book of Mormon Onomasticon, "Shearjashub," online at onoma.lib.byu.edu.

Roseann Benson and Shon D. Hopkin, "Finding Doctrine and Meaning in the Book of Isaiah," Religious Educator 15, no. 1 (2014): 107–109.

John W. Welch Notes

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