Jesus (Iesus, Yeshua) was a common alternative form of the name ("Yehoshua" - Joshua) in later books of the Hebrew Bible and among Jews of the Second Temple period. The name corresponds to the Greek spelling "Iesous", from which comes the English spelling Jesus. "Christ" means "the anointed" in Greek (). "Khristos" is the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew word Messiah; while in English the old Anglo-Saxon Messiah-rendering "hæland" (healer) was practically annihilated by the Latin "Christ", some cognates such as "heiland" in Dutch and Afrikaans survive—also, in German, the word "Heiland" is sometimes used as reference to Jesus, e.g., in church chorals).