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Lexicon :: Strong's G2447 - ios

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ἰός
Transliteration
ios (Key)
Pronunciation
ee-os'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Perhaps from eimi (to go) or hiemi (to send)
mGNT
3x in 2 unique form(s) TR
3x in 2 unique form(s) LXX
70x in 4 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:334,368

Strong’s Definitions

ἰός iós, ee-os'; perhaps from εἶμι eîmi (to go) or ἵημι híēmi (to send); rust (as if emitted by metals); also venom (as emitted by serpents):—poison, rust.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x

The KJV translates Strong's G2447 in the following manner: poison (2x), rust (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x
The KJV translates Strong's G2447 in the following manner: poison (2x), rust (1x).

  1. poison (of animals)

    1. poison of asps is under their lips,

    2. spoken of men given to reviling and calumniating and thereby injuring others

  2. rust

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἰός iós, ee-os'; perhaps from εἶμι eîmi (to go) or ἵημι híēmi (to send); rust (as if emitted by metals); also venom (as emitted by serpents):—poison, rust.
STRONGS G2447:
ἰός, οῦ, ὁ, (on its very uncertain derivation see Kreussler in Passow, under the word; Curtius § 591; [Vanicek, p. 969]);
1. poison (of animals): ἰὸς ἀσπίδων ὑπὸ τὰ χείλη αὐτῶν, the poison of asps is under their lips, spoken of men given to reviling and calumniating and thereby injuring others, Romans 3:13 (from Psalm 139:3 (Ps. 140:4)); by the same figure, (γλῶσσα) μεστὴ ἰοῦ θανατηφόρου, James 3:8; (in Greek writings from Pindar down).
2. rust: James 5:3; (Ezekiel 24:6, 11f; Baruch 6:11, 23 [Epistle Jeremiah 1:12, 24]; Theognis, Theocritus, Plato, Theophrastus, Polybius, Lucian, others).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Psalms
139:3; 140:4
Jeremiah
12
Ezekiel
24:6; 24:11
Romans
3:13
James
3:8; 5:3

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2447 matches the Greek ἰός (ios),
which occurs 70 times in 63 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (1Ki 16:1–2Ch 19:2)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:1 - And the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:7 - Moreover, the word of the LORD came by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha and his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and also because he destroyed it.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:12 - Thus Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 19:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:16 - And Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint to be king over Israel, and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint to be prophet in your place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 19:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:17 - And the one who escapes from the sword of Hazael shall Jehu put to death, and the one who escapes from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:2 - And when you arrive, look there for Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat, son of Nimshi. And go in and have him rise from among his fellows, and lead him to an inner chamber.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:5 - And when he came, behold, the commanders of the army were in council. And he said, “I have a word for you, O commander.” And Jehu said, “To which of us all?” And he said, “To you, O commander.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:11 - When Jehu came out to the servants of his master, they said to him, “Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?” And he said to them, “You know the fellow and his talk.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:12 - And they said, “That is not true; tell us now.” And he said, “Thus and so he spoke to me, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD, I anoint you king over Israel.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:13 - Then in haste every man of them took his garment and put it under him on the bare[fn] steps, and they blew the trumpet and proclaimed, “Jehu is king.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:14 - Thus Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram with all Israel had been on guard at Ramoth-gilead against Hazael king of Syria,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:15 - but King Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds that the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) So Jehu said, “If this is your decision, then let no one slip out of the city to go and tell the news in Jezreel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:16 - Then Jehu mounted his chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to visit Joram.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:17 - Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he saw the company of Jehu as he came and said, “I see a company.” And Joram said, “Take a horseman and send to meet them, and let him say, ‘Is it peace?’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:18 - So a man on horseback went to meet him and said, “Thus says the king, ‘Is it peace?’” And Jehu said, “What do you have to do with peace? Turn around and ride behind me.” And the watchman reported, saying, “The messenger reached them, but he is not coming back.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:19 - Then he sent out a second horseman, who came to them and said, “Thus the king has said, ‘Is it peace?’” And Jehu answered, “What do you have to do with peace? Turn around and ride behind me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:20 - Again the watchman reported, “He reached them, but he is not coming back. And the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:21 - Joram said, “Make ready.” And they made ready his chariot. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah set out, each in his chariot, and went to meet Jehu, and met him at the property of Naboth the Jezreelite.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:22 - And when Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” He answered, “What peace can there be, so long as the whorings and the sorceries of your mother Jezebel are so many?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:24 - And Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and shot Joram between the shoulders, so that the arrow pierced his heart, and he sank in his chariot.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:25 - Jehu said to Bidkar his aide, “Take him up and throw him on the plot of ground belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite. For remember, when you and I rode side by side behind Ahab his father, how the LORD made this pronouncement against him:

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:27 - When Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled in the direction of Beth-haggan. And Jehu pursued him and said, “Shoot him also.” And they shot him[fn] in the chariot at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo and died there.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:30 - When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. And she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked out of the window.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:31 - And as Jehu entered the gate, she said, “Is it peace, you Zimri, murderer of your master?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:34 - Then he went in and ate and drank. And he said, “See now to this cursed woman and bury her, for she is a king’s daughter.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:1 - Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria, to the rulers of the city,[fn] to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons[fn] of Ahab, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:5 - So he who was over the palace, and he who was over the city, together with the elders and the guardians, sent to Jehu, saying, “We are your servants, and we will do all that you tell us. We will not make anyone king. Do whatever is good in your eyes.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:11 - So Jehu struck down all who remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, all his great men and his close friends and his priests, until he left him none remaining.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:13 - Jehu met the relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah, and he said, “Who are you?” And they answered, “We are the relatives of Ahaziah, and we came down to visit the royal princes and the sons of the queen mother.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:15 - And when he departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him. And he greeted him and said to him, “Is your heart true to my heart as mine is to yours?” And Jehonadab answered, “It is.” Jehu said,[fn] “If it is, give me your hand.” So he gave him his hand. And Jehu took him up with him into the chariot.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:18 - Then Jehu assembled all the people and said to them, “Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu will serve him much.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:19 - Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all his worshipers and all his priests. Let none be missing, for I have a great sacrifice to offer to Baal. Whoever is missing shall not live.” But Jehu did it with cunning in order to destroy the worshipers of Baal.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:20 - And Jehu ordered, “Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal.” So they proclaimed it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:21 - And Jehu sent throughout all Israel, and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left who did not come. And they entered the house of Baal, and the house of Baal was filled from one end to the other.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:22 - He said to him who was in charge of the wardrobe, “Bring out the vestments for all the worshipers of Baal.” So he brought out the vestments for them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:23 - Then Jehu went into the house of Baal with Jehonadab the son of Rechab, and he said to the worshipers of Baal, “Search, and see that there is no servant of the LORD here among you, but only the worshipers of Baal.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:24 - Then they[fn] went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside and said, “The man who allows any of those whom I give into your hands to escape shall forfeit his life.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:25 - So as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard and to the officers, “Go in and strike them down; let not a man escape.” So when they put them to the sword, the guard and the officers cast them out and went into the inner room of the house of Baal,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:28 - Thus Jehu wiped out Baal from Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:29 - But Jehu did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin—that is, the golden calves that were in Bethel and in Dan.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:30 - And the LORD said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in carrying out what is right in my eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:31 - But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam, which he made Israel to sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:34 - Now the rest of the acts of Jehu and all that he did, and all his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:35

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:35 - So Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:36

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:36 - The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 12:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:1 - In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash[fn] began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 13:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:1 - In the twenty-third year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned seventeen years.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 14:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:8 - Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash[fn] the son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let us look one another in the face.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 15:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:12 - (This was the promise of the LORD that he gave to Jehu, “Your sons shall sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.” And so it came to pass.)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 19:2 - But Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, wrath has gone out against you from the LORD.

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