...I'm not sure what the mystery is. Names in English translations of the Hebrew Bible are mostly based on the Hebrew forms of the names. Only a few of the very familiar names, like the three you list, are based on Latin forms which are mostly copied from the Greek. This has been true at least since the King James version.
I've noticed this. The mystery to me is those biblical proper names that do
have "sh" in English: e.g., Asher, Ishmael, Jehoshaphat, Joshua, Shiphrah
(which are all I can think of off hand)."
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