---
title: "The Names of Jesus: Word Cards"
category: "other"
description: "Eighteen printable A4 flashcards of the Old Testament's names for the coming Christ in Hebrew, ordered so each card adds a few new letters: the Hebrew, its Paleo-Hebrew form, the pronunciation, the meaning, the New Testament verse that gives the name to Jesus, and the word in Hebrew today."
tags: ["lang/hebrew", "learning", "names-of-god", "printable"]
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primary_passage: "Matthew 1:21"
bible_references: ["Nehemiah 8:17", "Matthew 1:21", "Daniel 9:25", "John 1:41", "Zechariah 6:12", "Isaiah 9:6", "Ephesians 2:14", "Deuteronomy 18:15", "Acts 3:22", "Daniel 7:13", "Mark 14:62", "Psalm 110:4", "Hebrews 5:6", "Numbers 24:17", "Revelation 22:16", "Ezekiel 34:23", "John 10:11", "John 3:16", "Isaiah 52:13", "Matthew 12:18", "Isaiah 53:7", "John 1:29", "Psalm 118:22", "Acts 4:11", "Genesis 22:18", "Galatians 3:16", "Isaiah 59:20", "Romans 11:26", "Isaiah 44:6", "Revelation 1:17"]
date_created: 2026-10-18
date_modified: 2026-10-19
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# The Names of Jesus: word cards

**In one sentence:** learn the Hebrew alphabet by learning the names the Old Testament gave the
coming Christ, one card at a time, each beside the verse where the New Testament gives that name to
Jesus.

> ✝️ Luke 24:27 (ESV)
>
> 27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the
> things concerning himself.

On the road to Emmaus the risen Jesus taught two disciples where He is in the Old Testament. These
cards are some of the places He could have shown them. Each Hebrew word comes from an Old Testament
verse. The back of the card quotes the New Testament verse where that name is given to Jesus: *mashiach*,
"anointed", is the Messiah Andrew found (John 1:41), and Ezekiel's one shepherd is the good
shepherd of John 10:11. [The Names of Jesus](https://the-way.lewy.au/jesus/names-of-jesus/) is the study behind the
cards: where each name was promised, and how Jesus fulfils it. The companion deck, [The Names of
God](https://the-way.lewy.au/hebrew/names-of-god-cards/), teaches the names God gave Himself; it ends with *Yeshua*, and this
deck begins there. A third deck, [The Names of the Holy Spirit](https://the-way.lewy.au/hebrew/names-of-the-holy-spirit-cards/),
teaches the Spirit's names.

## How the deck teaches the letters

The cards are in a deliberate order. The first, <span dir="rtl">יֵשׁוּעַ</span> (*Yeshua*, the name
of Jesus), has four letters. Each card after it adds up to two new ones, and the front of the card
shows which, with a bar for how many of the 22 you have met so far. The last three letters arrive
on *a son is given*, *your offspring* and *Redeemer*, and the deck closes with the name only God can
claim: "I am the first and I am the last" (Isaiah 44:6). The order and the counts are worked out
from the Hebrew on the cards, so they cannot drift from what is printed.

Use the deck alongside [The Hebrew Alphabet](https://the-way.lewy.au/hebrew/alphabet/): when a card introduces a letter, find it
in the table, say its sound, then read the word.

## Reading a card

- **The front** has the name as the Hebrew Bible writes it, vowel points included, and beneath it the
  same letters in **Paleo-Hebrew**, the script Israel wrote before the exile.
- **The back** has the reading in syllables with the stressed one underlined, the meaning, a verse
  (ESV), and a line marked **Today** on the word in modern Hebrew. The verse is the New Testament one
  that gives the name to Jesus; three cards (the Branch, Wonderful Counselor and Everlasting Father)
  quote the Old Testament verse itself, since no New Testament verse uses those names.
- **Names as the verse writes them.** Several cards keep the small words around a name, because
  that is how the verse says it: <span dir="rtl">כַּשֶּׂה לַטֶּבַח</span>, "like a lamb to the
  slaughter" (Isaiah 53:7), and <span dir="rtl">בְזַרְעֲךָ</span>, "in your offspring"
  (Genesis 22:18).
- **One card is Aramaic.** Daniel 7 is written in Aramaic, so "one like a son of man" is
  <span dir="rtl">כְּבַר אֱנָשׁ</span> (*kevar enash*), with Aramaic *bar* for Hebrew *ben*,
  "son". It uses the same letters.

## Learning a card

**On screen**, choose **Practise on screen** above the cards. It shows one card at a time: read the
word, show the reading to check yourself, then mark it **Again** or **I read it**. It introduces
three new cards a day, in the deck's order, and brings each card back when it is due: the next
day, then after three days, a week, two weeks and a month. **Hear it** reads the word aloud in your
device's Hebrew voice, where it has one. Your progress is kept in this browser only.

**On paper**, take one card a day. Read the front aloud, letter by letter, then turn it over to check the
reading and learn the meaning. Each time you read it correctly on a later day, tick a circle: **1,
2, 4, 7, 14 and 30 days** after you learn it. Widening gaps like these are what fix a word in
long-term memory.

## How to print

1. Choose **Flashcards** for the word on the front and everything else on the back, or **Cards**
   for one-sided cards.
2. Print at **A4, 100 % / actual size**, with **margins set to none** and **headers and footers
   off**. Turn **background graphics** on.
3. For flashcards, print **double-sided, flip on long edge**. The backs are mirrored so each lands
   behind its own front.
4. Cut on the dashed lines. Untick **Paleo-Hebrew** or **Modern Hebrew note** before printing to
   leave them off.

Each card is 95 × 67.5 mm, eight to a sheet. Empty places on the last sheet print as blank ruled
cards for a name of your own.

## The cards

<!-- hebrew-cards: names-of-jesus -->

## Sources

Every Hebrew and Aramaic word on these cards is checked against STEPBible.org's Translators
Amalgamated Hebrew OT (TAHOT, CC BY), which follows the Leningrad Codex, and takes its syllables,
stress and Strong's number from it. Cantillation marks are removed for legibility. The Paleo-Hebrew
is the same letters drawn in the Unicode Phoenician script. Scripture quotations marked ESV are from
the ESV® Bible, © 2001 by Crossway, used by permission (see [Copyright & Scripture
Permissions](https://the-way.lewy.au/about/copyright/)), and each is checked against the ESV text before it is
printed.