Kalev (כלב) is a compound of the two words kal/kol (כל), “whole or all”, and lev (לב) “heart”, simply meaning “wholehearted”, because he pursued after YHVH with all his heart and was rewarded for his obedience toward Him, as recorded in the Torah. It is often confused for the word kelev (כלב), which means “dog”, sharing the same 3 letters but having differing vowel points.
Nechemyah means “YAH comforts.” Names like this are so much more beautiful in their original Hebraic spelling format than their butchered English counterparts that we have been taught.
Actor Rufus Sewell. He played the conflicted and diabolical Nazi Obergruppenführer John Smith in the popular Amazon Prime series The Man In The High Castle (2015-2019). He played the pompous elitist villain in the zany classic A Knight's Tale (2001), and also played the lead role in the lesser known movie Dark City (1998). Famous quote: "You have been weighed, and have been found wanting."
Yedidyah is a compound of the word yedid (ידיד) and the name Yah (יהּ) -the abbreviation of the Tetragrammaton (יהוה), the God of Israel, meaning “friend of Yah”.
Yehoshua (יהושע) is a compound consisting of the prefix -Yeho (יהו), referring to the God of Israel, and the name Hoshea (הושע), referring to salvation, meaning “Yehovah is salvation”. Yeshua (ישוע) is the shortened form of this name, and it showcases a Hebraic quality which is not so evident in the anglicized name Jesus.