When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Source: tatoeba (30142)
Jesus
/ˈd͡ʒiːzəs/
Synonyms for "jesus" (23 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (5)
Noun(5 words)
Strong matches (7)
god the sonjesus christ
Noun(4 words)
Interjection(1 words)
Related words (11)
Choosing the right synonym
- Closest matches in this entry: christ, christian name, emphatic interjection, exclamation, expletive.
- Sentence evidence is available for jesus, so synonym choice can be checked against real usage rather than a flat word list.
- Ranking signals come from opengloss, derived_reverse.
Synonym selection checklist
- Match the part of speech before comparing meanings.
- Check whether the synonym changes intensity, formality, or emotional tone.
- Read the replacement inside the full sentence, not just beside "jesus".
- Prefer the clearest word over the most unusual word when writing for speed or comprehension.
When not to replace "jesus"
Keep "jesus" when the sentence already sounds natural, when a synonym would add unintended emphasis, or when readers need the most familiar wording. A synonym should clarify or sharpen the message, not simply make the sentence look more varied.
If two options seem close, choose the one that best matches the audience and purpose of the sentence.
Replacement workflow
1. Preserve meaning
Choose a synonym only if it keeps the core idea of "jesus" intact in the sentence you are editing.
2. Tune tone
Check whether the replacement sounds more formal, casual, emotional, technical, or forceful than the original word.
3. Re-read context
Read the full sentence after the swap. Keep the synonym only when the sentence becomes clearer or more precise.
Review note: Synonym lists are ranked with lexical data and reviewed for practical writing value. Use the comparison notes, sentence evidence, and source labels together; a high-ranking synonym can still be wrong when the audience, register, or grammar changes.
Final fit check
After choosing a replacement for "jesus", read the sentence once for meaning and once for rhythm. The best synonym should feel natural in the full sentence, not only accurate in a word list.
If the synonym makes the sentence slower, vaguer, or more dramatic than intended, keep "jesus" or choose a simpler alternative from the closest-match group.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
8 entriesMore specific
14 entriesHebrew namePortuguese given namePortuguese surnameSpanish given nameSpanish surnamebiblical figurebiblical nameblasphemous oathcolloquial expletivegospel figureinvocational expletiveprofanity oathreligious exclamationslang interjection
Collocations
10 entriesEarly Jesus movementGospels about JesusHistorical JesusJesus ChristJesus of NazarethJesus weptLife of Jesuscolloquial oathoh Jesusreligious exclamation
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
2 entriesTranslations
271 translations across 205 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- Jesus name (religious figure)
Aghwan
1 entries- 𐔺𐔴𐕚𐕒𐕡𐕚 name (religious figure)
Akawaio
2 entries- Seiso name (religious figure)
- Sises name (religious figure)
Albanian
3 entries- Jezui name (religious figure)
- Jisui name (religious figure)
- Lli name (religious figure)
Amharic
1 entries- የሱስ name (religious figure)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- Ἰησοῦς name (religious figure)
Arabic
2 entries- عِيسَى name (religious figure)
- يَسُوع m or name (religious figure)
Aragonese
1 entries- Chesús name (religious figure)
Arbëresh
1 entries- Isuthi name (religious figure)
Armenian
1 entries- Հիսուս name (religious figure)
Aromanian
1 entries- Isus name (religious figure)
Assamese
1 entries- যীশু name (religious figure)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
1 entries- ܝܼܫܘܿܥ name (religious figure)
Asturian
1 entries- Xesús name (religious figure)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- İsa name (religious figure)
Balinese
1 entries- Yésus name (religious figure)
Bashkir
1 entries- Ғайса name (religious figure)
Basque
1 entries- Jesus name (religious figure)
Bavarian German
1 entries- Jesus name (religious figure)
Belarusian
2 entries- Ісу́с name (religious figure)
- Е́зус name (religious figure)
Bengali
2 entries- ঈসা name (religious figure)
- যীশু name (religious figure)
Betawi
2 entries- Isa name (religious figure)
- Yèsus name (religious figure)
Breton
1 entries- Jezuz name (religious figure)
Bulgarian
2 entries- Иису́с name (religious figure)
- Ису́с name (religious figure)
Burmese
1 entries- ယေရှု name (religious figure)
Car Nicobarese
1 entries- Yēsū name (religious figure)
Carpathian Rusyn
1 entries- Ісус name (religious figure)
Catalan
1 entries- Jesús name (religious figure)
Cebuano
1 entries- Jesus name (religious figure)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᏥᏌ name (religious figure)
Chichewa
1 entries- Yesu name (religious figure)
Chinese
1 entries- 耶穌 /耶稣 name (religious figure)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 耶穌 /耶稣 name (religious figure)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 伊伊穌斯 /伊伊稣斯 name (religious figure)
- 耶穌 /耶稣 name (religious figure)
- 鿗 name (religious figure)
Choctaw
1 entries- Chisạs name (religious figure)
Church Slavic
3 entries- Їисоусъ name (religious figure)
- Їисъ name (religious figure)
- Исоусъ name (religious figure)
Coptic
2 entries- ⲓⲏⲥ name (religious figure)
- ⲓⲏⲥⲟⲩⲥ name (religious figure)
Cornish
1 entries- Yesu name (religious figure)
Corsican
1 entries- Gesù name (religious figure)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- İsa name (religious figure)
Czech
1 entries- Ježíš name (religious figure)
Danish
1 entries- Jesus name (religious figure)
Dutch
1 entries- Jezus name (religious figure)
Dutch Low Saxon
1 entries- Jezus name (religious figure)
Eastern Min Chinese
1 entries- 耶穌 /耶稣 name (religious figure)
Esperanto
1 entries- Jesuo name (religious figure)
Estonian
1 entries- Jeesus name (religious figure)
Ewe
1 entries- Yesu name (religious figure)
Extremaduran
1 entries- Jesú name (religious figure)
Farefare
2 entries- Azezi name (religious figure)
- Yezu name (religious figure)
Faroese
1 entries- Jesus name (religious figure)
Fijian
1 entries- Jisu name (religious figure)
Finnish
1 entries- Jeesus name (religious figure)
Franco-Provençal
1 entries- Jèsus name (religious figure)
French
1 entries- Jésus name (religious figure)
Friulian
1 entries- Gjesù name (religious figure)
Gagauz
2 entries- İisus name (religious figure)
- Иисус name (religious figure)
Galician
1 entries- Xesús name (religious figure)
Georgian
2 entries- იესო name (religious figure)
- ქრისტე name (religious figure)
German
2 entries- Jesus name (religious figure)
- Jesus name (religious figure)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌹𐌴𐍃𐌿𐍃 name (religious figure)
Greek
1 entries- Ιησούς name (religious figure)
Greenlandic
1 entries- Jiisusi name (religious figure)
Guerrero Amuzgo
1 entries- Su name (religious figure)
Gujarati
2 entries- ઈસા name (religious figure)
- ઈસુ name (religious figure)
Gusii
1 entries- Yeso name (religious figure)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- Jezi name (religious figure)
Hakka Chinese
1 entries- 耶穌 /耶稣 name (religious figure)
Hausa
1 entries- Isa name (religious figure)
Hawaiian
1 entries- Iesū name (religious figure)
Hebrew
2 entries- יֵשׁוּ name (religious figure)
- יֵשׁוּעַ name (religious figure)
Hindi
3 entries- ईसा name (religious figure)
- यसू name (religious figure)
- यीशु name (religious figure)
Hungarian
1 entries- Jézus name (religious figure)
Hunsrik
1 entries- Yeesus name (religious figure)
Icelandic
1 entries- Jesús name (religious figure)
Ido
1 entries- Iesu name (religious figure)
Igbo
2 entries- Jisọs name (religious figure)
- Jizọs name (religious figure)
Indonesian
2 entries- Isa name (religious figure)
- Yesus name (religious figure)
Interlingua
1 entries- Jesus name (religious figure)
Irish
1 entries- Íosa name (religious figure)
Italian
1 entries- Gesù name (religious figure)
Jamaican Creole
2 entries- Jezas name (religious figure)
- Jiizas name (religious figure)
Japanese
4 entries- イイスス name (religious figure)
- イエス name (religious figure)
- イエス・キリスト name (religious figure)
- イエズス name (religious figure)
Javanese
1 entries- Yésus name (religious figure)
Jingpho
1 entries- Yesu name (religious figure)
Kapampangan
1 entries- Yesus name (religious figure)
Kashubian
2 entries- Jezus name (religious figure)
- Jezës name (religious figure)
Kazakh
1 entries- Иса name (religious figure)
Khiamniungan Naga
1 entries- Īsúo name (religious figure)
Khmer
1 entries- យេស៊ូ name (religious figure)
Kikuyu
1 entries- Jeso name (religious figure)
Konkani
1 entries- जेजू name (religious figure)
Korean
1 entries- 예수 name (religious figure)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- Ыйса name (religious figure)
Lao
2 entries- ເຍຊູ name (religious figure)
- ເຢຊູ name (religious figure)
Latgalian
1 entries- Jezus name (religious figure)
Latin
1 entries- Iēsūs name (religious figure)
Latvian
1 entries- Jēzus name (religious figure)
Lautu Chin
1 entries- Zingsuv name (religious figure)
Ligurian
1 entries- Gesû name (religious figure)
Limburgish
2 entries- Jezus name (religious figure)
- Zjezös name (religious figure)
Lisu
1 entries- ꓬꓰ-ꓢꓴ name (religious figure)
Literary Chinese
1 entries- 移鼠 name (religious figure)
Lithuanian
1 entries- Jėzus name (religious figure)
Lombard
2 entries- Gesù name (religious figure)
- Gesü name (religious figure)
Low German
1 entries- Jesus name (religious figure)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- Jezus name (religious figure)
Luganda
1 entries- Yesu name (religious figure)
Luhya
1 entries- Yesu name (religious figure)
Lutuv
1 entries- Zingsuv name (religious figure)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Jesus name (religious figure)
Lü
1 entries- ᦵᦍᦌᦴ name (religious figure)
Macedonian
1 entries- Исус name (religious figure)
Malagasy
2 entries- Jesoa name (religious figure)
- Jesosy name (religious figure)
Malay
2 entries- Isa name (religious figure)
- Yesus name (religious figure)
Malayalam
2 entries- ഈശോ name (religious figure)
- യേശു name (religious figure)
Maltese
1 entries- Ġesù name (religious figure)
Manx
1 entries- Yeesey name (religious figure)
Marathi
2 entries- जिजस name (religious figure)
- येशू name (religious figure)
Marshallese
2 entries- Jijej name (religious figure)
- Jisōs name (religious figure)
Meru
1 entries- Njiisu name (religious figure)
Middle English
2 entries- Iesus name (religious figure)
- Jhesus name (religious figure)
Middle French
1 entries- Iesus name (religious figure)
Mirandese
1 entries- Jasus name (religious figure)
Mongolian
1 entries- Есүс name (religious figure)
Māori
1 entries- Ihu name (religious figure)
Navajo
2 entries- Doodaatsaahii name (religious figure)
- Jíísas name (religious figure)
Neapolitan
1 entries- Gèsù name (religious figure)
Nepali
1 entries- यसू name (religious figure)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- Isa name (religious figure)
Norman
1 entries- Jésû name (religious figure)
North Frisian
1 entries- Jiises name (religious figure)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- Îsa name (religious figure)
Northern Min Chinese
1 entries- 耶穌 /耶稣 name (religious figure)
Northern Sami
1 entries- Jesus name (religious figure)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- Jesus name (religious figure)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- Jesus name (religious figure)
- Jøss name (religious figure)
- Jøsses name (religious figure)
Occitan
1 entries- Jèsus name (religious figure)
Odia
2 entries- ଈସା name (religious figure)
- ଯୀଶୁ name (religious figure)
Old Armenian
1 entries- Յիսուս name (religious figure)
Old English
1 entries- Hǣlend name (religious figure)
Old French
1 entries- Jhesu name (religious figure)
Old Irish
1 entries- Íssu name (religious figure)
Old Norse
1 entries- Jésús name (religious figure)
Old Occitan
1 entries- Ihesu name (religious figure)
Old Prussian
1 entries- Jēzus name (religious figure)
Old Tupi
1 entries- Îesu name (religious figure)
Pashto
1 entries- عيسى name (religious figure)
Persian
2 entries- عیسیٰ name (religious figure)
- یَشوع name (religious figure)
Piedmontese
1 entries- Gesù name (religious figure)
Pirahã
1 entries- Hisoi name (religious figure)
Polish
1 entries- Jezus name (religious figure)
Portuguese
1 entries- Jesus name (religious figure)
Punjabi
4 entries- عیسی name (religious figure)
- یسوع name (religious figure)
- ਈਸਾ name (religious figure)
- ਯਿਸੂ name (religious figure)
Romanian
1 entries- Iisus name (religious figure)
Romansch
1 entries- Gesu name (religious figure)
Russian
1 entries- Иису́с name (religious figure)
S'gaw Karen
1 entries- ယ့ၣ်ၡူး name (religious figure)
Santali
1 entries- ᱡᱤᱥᱩ name (religious figure)
Sardinian
1 entries- Gesùs name (religious figure)
Scots
1 entries- Jesus name (religious figure)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- Ìosa name (religious figure)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- Ìsus name (religious figure)
- Ѝсус name (religious figure)
Shan
1 entries- ယေႇသူႉ name (religious figure)
Sicilian
2 entries- Gisù name (religious figure)
- Jisù name (religious figure)
Slovak
1 entries- Ježiš name (religious figure)
Slovene
1 entries- Jézus name (religious figure)
Somali
1 entries- Ciise name (religious figure)
Sotho
1 entries- Jesu name (religious figure)
Spanish
1 entries- Jesús name (religious figure)
Sundanese
1 entries- Yésus name (religious figure)
Swahili
2 entries- Isa name (religious figure)
- Yesu name (religious figure)
Swedish
1 entries- Jesus name (religious figure)
Tagalog
1 entries- Hesus name (religious figure)
Tajik
1 entries- Исо name (religious figure)
Tamil
3 entries- இயேசு name (religious figure)
- ஈசா name (religious figure)
- யேசு name (religious figure)
Tatar
1 entries- Гайсә name (religious figure)
Telugu
3 entries- ఈసా name (religious figure)
- ఏసు name (religious figure)
- యేసు name (religious figure)
Thai
1 entries- เยซู name (religious figure)
Tibetan
1 entries- ཡེ་ཤུ name (religious figure)
Tigrinya
2 entries- እየሱስ name (religious figure)
- የሱስ name (religious figure)
Tok Pisin
1 entries- Jisas name (religious figure)
Turkish
1 entries- İsa name (religious figure)
Turkmen
1 entries- Isa name (religious figure)
Ukrainian
1 entries- Ісу́с name (religious figure)
Unami
1 entries- Jesus name (religious figure)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- Jězus name (religious figure)
Urdu
2 entries- عِیسیٰ name (religious figure)
- یَسُوع name (religious figure)
Uyghur
1 entries- ئەيسا name (religious figure)
Uzbek
1 entries- Iso name (religious figure)
Venetan
1 entries- Gesù name (religious figure)
Vietnamese
4 entries- Da Tô name (religious figure)
- Gia Tô name (religious figure)
- Gia-tô name (religious figure)
- Giê-su name (religious figure)
Walloon
1 entries- Djezus name (religious figure)
Welsh
1 entries- Iesu name (religious figure)
West-Frisian
1 entries- Jezus name (religious figure)
Western Apache
1 entries- nayééneezgháné name (religious figure)
Western Pwo
1 entries- ယ့ၫၡုၬ name (religious figure)
White Hmong
1 entries- Yexus name (religious figure)
Wu Chinese
1 entries- 耶穌 /耶稣 name (religious figure)
Xhosa
1 entries- uYesu name (religious figure)
Yiddish
4 entries- יאָשקע name (religious figure)
- יאָשקע פּאַנדרע name (religious figure)
- יעזוס name (religious figure)
- ישו name (religious figure)
Yoruba
1 entries- Jésù name (religious figure)
Yup'ik
2 entries- Ciissussaq name (religious figure)
- Yiissus name (religious figure)
Zhuang
1 entries- Yehsuh name (religious figure)
Zulu
1 entries- uJesu name (religious figure)
Sample sentences
32 total sentences available.
Mass is a Catholic ceremony of remembering Jesus Christ by eating and drinking.
Source: tatoeba (32286)
But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man.
Source: tatoeba (32726)
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
Source: tatoeba (38979)
Showing 4 of 32 available sentences.
Common questions
What are the closest synonyms for "jesus"?
Closest matches include christ, christian name, emphatic interjection, exclamation, expletive.
How should I check whether a synonym fits "jesus"?
Compare the replacement against real sentence context. This entry includes sample sentences so you can check tone, grammar, and meaning before swapping words.