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Jesus historically eventually comes from the Hebrew name Yehoshua, "Yah saves", through contraction via Yeshua > Yeshu -- so I guess that could also be "Yah redeems".

Nazara is a more difficult matter. It apparently comes somehow from Hebrew. In Mt 4:13 and Lk 4:15 where Nazara is found in the Alexandrian text tradition, the Peshitta, an Aramaic translation still has Nazareth, so the translator didn't make anything out of Nazara, if it were in the text when he translated it -- later traditions of these texts have Nazareth.


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