Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50365 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

josuahJoshua

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it: 184 times in 95 works
Consistency: 98.9% (184 of 186)
Reach if approved: ~195 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 186 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (184 changes in 95 works, 98.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 184)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and kept their children poore and constant in Gods worship all the dayes of JosuahJoshua 24. 31. It is true (say they) God entered also into a covenant with their Fathers …
With rule
… and kept their children poore and constant in Gods worship all the dayes of JosuahJoshua 24. 31. It is true (say they) God entered also into a covenant with their Fathers …
Samuel Rutherford · The Due Right of Presbyteries · p. 102 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hee was fourty yeares old then, hee went for the Tribe of Judah: and JoſuahJoshua the ſon of Nan, Moſes his ſervant, was another; and went as a principall …
With rule
… hee was fourty yeares old then, hee went for the Tribe of Judah: and JoſuahJoshua the ſon of Nan, Moſes his ſervant, was another; and went as a principall …
Thomas Westfield · Eleven Choice Sermons · p. 135 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Joſeph, praying for, and pronouncing a bleſſing upon them. Thus Moſes layed hands upon JoſuahJoshua, who thereupon was filled with the ſpirit of wiſedome, as you have it, Deut …
With rule
… Joſeph, praying for, and pronouncing a bleſſing upon them. Thus Moſes layed hands upon JoſuahJoshua, who thereupon was filled with the ſpirit of wiſedome, as you have it, Deut …
John Brinsley · The Doctrine and Practice of Paedobaptism · p. 83 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Jeſus is JoſuahJoshua in the myſtery. JoſuahJoshua is typicall Jeſus, and Jeſus is myſticall JoſuahJoshua. Here then adamas inſculpitur adamante, one diamond cuts and points another. Jeſus Chriſt inſtructeth …
With rule
… Jeſus is JoſuahJoshua in the myſtery. JoſuahJoshua is typicall Jeſus, and Jeſus is myſticall JoſuahJoshua. Here then adamas inſculpitur adamante, one diamond cuts and points another. Jeſus Chriſt inſtructeth …
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 233 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that man, to take his owne revenge: As Abraham did Hagar, to Sarah; and JoſuahJoshua thoſe heathen Kings to every common ſouldier, to ſet his feet upon their neckes …
With rule
… that man, to take his owne revenge: As Abraham did Hagar, to Sarah; and JoſuahJoshua thoſe heathen Kings to every common ſouldier, to ſet his feet upon their neckes …
Daniel Cawdry · Three Sermons · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… things ſhall never pleaſe God any more. Or I may ſay of it as JoſuahJoshua ſpeakes of Jericho when hee had pulled down and deſtroyed it; Curſed be the …
With rule
… things ſhall never pleaſe God any more. Or I may ſay of it as JoſuahJoshua ſpeakes of Jericho when hee had pulled down and deſtroyed it; Curſed be the …
Walter Cradock · Gospel Holiness · p. 286 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Jeſus, (that is JoſuahJoshua, being ſo written in Greek viz. Jeſus; and Jeſus and JoſuahJoshua are of the ſame ſignification) had given them reſt, he would not afterward have …
With rule
… Jeſus, (that is JoſuahJoshua, being ſo written in Greek viz. Jeſus; and Jeſus and JoſuahJoshua are of the ſame ſignification) had given them reſt, he would not afterward have …
Nathanael Homes · The Resurrection Revealed · p. 171 · Open in the reader
Printed
… time firſt employed in theſe Services, but had been ever, ſince the days of JoſuahJoshua converſant in that labour: but were now methodized for Temple-ſervice, according to the …
With rule
… time firſt employed in theſe Services, but had been ever, ſince the days of JoſuahJoshua converſant in that labour: but were now methodized for Temple-ſervice, according to the …
Samuel Lee · The Temple of Solomon Portrayed · p. 107 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture A00593

Printed
JOSUAHJOSHUA 1.9.
With rule
JOSUAHJOSHUA 1.9.
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 231 · Open in the reader