IHS

IHS

2. (institute, US) Initialism of Institute for Humane Studies.
4. (institute, US) Initialism of Institute for Humanist Studies.
6. (service, US) Initialism of Indian Health Service, a US health agency.
8. (Christianity) Transliterated form of monogram ΙΗϹ or ΙΗΣ from ΙΗϹΟYϹ (IĒSOYS), the Greek form of Jesus.

   Synonyms: IHC (homoglyphic approximation), JHC, JHS, YHS

• IHS on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• -ish, His, Hsi, Ish, Shi, his, ish, shi

IHS

1. (Austria) initialism of Institute für Höhere Studien

• IHS on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

IHS

1. initialism of in hōc signō (“in this sign”)

• Commonly seen on Christian churches.

The reference to Jesus is from the first three letters of Jesus' name in Koine Greek, ΙΗΣΟΥΣ (IĒSOUS), arising perhaps circa 14th century. The interpretation as an initialism of Iēsūs Hominum Salvātor (“Jesus, saviour of men”) is apparently a later back-formation when the Greek was no longer remembered. (See Christogram on Wikipedia.)

IHS m

1. (Christianity) initialism of Iēsūs Hominum Salvātor (“Jesus Savior of Men)”)

• JHS
• IHC, JHC (representing the medieval Greek form of sigma, Ϲ (S))