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Lexicon :: Strong's H2977 - yō'šîyâ

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יֹאשִׁיָּה
Transliteration
yō'šîyâ
Pronunciation
yo-shee-yaw'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same root as אָשְׁיָה (H803) and יָהּ (H3050)
Strong’s Definitions

יֹאשִׁיָּה Yôʼshîyâh, yo-shee-yaw'; or יֹאשִׁיָּהוּ Yôʼshîyâhûw; from the same root as H803 and H3050; founded of Jah; Joshijah, the name of two Israelites:—Josiah.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 53x

The KJV translates Strong's H2977 in the following manner: Josiah (53x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 53x
The KJV translates Strong's H2977 in the following manner: Josiah (53x).

  1. Josiah = "whom Jehovah heals"

    1. son of Amon by Jedidah who succeeded his father to the throne of Judah and reigned for 31 years; his reign is noteworthy for the great revivals back to the worship of Jehovah which he led

    2. a returned exile and son of Zephaniah at whose house took place the solemn and symbolical crowning of Joshua the high priest in the time of Zechariah the prophet

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יֹאשִׁיָּה Yôʼshîyâh, yo-shee-yaw'; or יֹאשִׁיָּהוּ Yôʼshîyâhûw; from the same root as H803 and H3050; founded of Jah; Joshijah, the name of two Israelites:—Josiah.
STRONGS H2977: Abbreviations
יאֹשִׁיָּ֫הוּ, יאֹשִׁיָּה proper name, masculine (י׳ supporteth).
1. יאֹשִׁיָּהוּ king of Judah, son of Amon 1 Kings 13:2; 2 Kings 21:24, 26 + 11 times Kings, + 19 times Chronicles, + 17 times Jeremiah + Zephaniah 1:1; also יאֹו֯שִׁיָּהוּ Jeremiah 27:1.
2. יאֹשִׁיָּה a returned exile Zechariah 6:10.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

1 Kings

13:2

2 Kings

21:24; 21:26

Jeremiah

27:1

Zephaniah

1:1

Zechariah

6:10

H2977

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2977 matches the Hebrew יֹאשִׁיָּה (yō'šîyâ),
which occurs 53 times in 48 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:2 - And he cried against the altar by the word of the Lord, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord, Behold, a son is to be born to the house of David, [fn]Josias by name; and he shall offer upon thee the priests of the high places, even of them that sacrifice upon thee, and he shall burn men's bones upon thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:24 - And the people of the land [fn]slew all that had conspired against king Amos; and the people of the land made Josias his son king in his room.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:26 - And they buried him in his tomb in the garden of Oza: and Josias his son reigned in his stead.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:1 - Josias was eight years old when he began to [fn]reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jedia, daughter of Edeia of Basuroth.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:3 - And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josias, in the eighth month, the king sent Sapphan the son of Ezelias the son of Mesollam, the scribe of the house of the Lord, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:16 - And Josias turned aside, and saw the tombs that were there in the city, and sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burnt them on the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of the Lord which the man of God spoke, when Jeroboam stood by the altar at the feast: and he turned and raised his eyes to the tomb of the man of God that spoke these words.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:19 - Moreover Josias removed all the houses of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel made to provoke the Lord, and did to them all that he did in Bæthel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:23 - But in the eighteenth year of king Josias, was the passover kept to the Lord in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24 - Moreover Josias removed the sorcerers, and the wizards, and the theraphin, and the idols, and all the abominations that had been set up in the land of Juda and in Jerusalem, that he might [fn]keep the words of the law that were written in the book, which Chelcias the priest found in the house of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:28 - And the rest of the acts of Josias, and all that he did, are not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:29 - And in his days went up Pharao Nechao king of Egypt against the king of the Assyrians to the river Euphrates: and Josias went out to meet him: and Nechao slew him in Mageddo when he saw him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:30 - And his servants carried him dead from Mageddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre: and the people of the land took Joachaz the son of Josias, and anointed him, and made him king in the room of his father.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:34 - And Pharao Nechao made Eliakim son of Josias king of Juda king over them in the place of his father Josias, and he changed his name to Joakim, and he took Joachaz and brought him to Egypt, and he died there.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:14 - Amon his son, Josia his son.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:15 - And the sons of Josia; the first-born Joanan, the second Joakim, the third Sedekias, the fourth Salum.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:25 - And the people of the land slew the men who had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josias his son king in his stead.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:1 - Josias was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:33 - And Josias removed all the abominations out of the whole land which belonged to the children of Israel, and caused all that were found in Jerusalem and in Israel, to serve the Lord their God all his days: he departed not from following the Lord God of his fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:1 - And Josias kept a passover to the Lord his God; and sacrificed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:7 - And Josias gave as an offering to the children of the people, sheep, and lambs, and kids of the young of the goats, all for the passover, even for all that were found, in number amounting to thirty thousand, and three thousand calves, these were of the substance of the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:16 - So all the service of the Lord was duly ordered and prepared in that day, for keeping the passover, and offering the whole-burnt-sacrifices on the altar of the Lord, according to the command of king Josias.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:18 - And there was no passover like it in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet, or any king of Israel: they kept not such a passover as Josias, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Juda and Israel that were present, and the dwellers in Jerusalem, kept to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:19 - In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josias this passover was kept, after all these things that Josias did in the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:20 - And Pharao Nechao king of Egypt went up against the king of the Assyrians to the river Euphrates, and king Josias went to meet him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:22 - However Josias turned not his face from him, but strengthened himself to fight against him, and hearkened not to the words of Nechao by the mouth of God, and he came to fight in the plain of Mageddo.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:23 - And the archers shot at king Josias; and the king said to his servants, Take me away, for I am severely wounded.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:24 - And his servants lifted him out of the chariot, and put him in the second chariot which he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried with his fathers: and all Juda and Jerusalem lamented over Josias.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:25 - And Jeremias mourned over Josias, and all the chief men and chief women uttered a lamentation over Josias until this day: and they made it an ordinance for Israel, and, behold, it is written in the lamentations.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:26 - And the rest of the acts of Josias, and his hope, are written in the law of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:1 - And the people of the land took Joachaz the son of Josias, and anointed him, and made him king over Jerusalem in the room of his father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:2 - accordingly as the word of God came to him in the days of Josias son of Amos king of Juda, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:3 - And it was in the days of Joakim son of Josias king of Juda, until the eleventh year of Sedekias king of Juda, even until the captivity of Jerusalem in the fifth month.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:6 - And the Lord said to me in the days of Josias the king, Hast thou seen what things the house of Israel has done to me? they have gone on every high mountain, and under every shady tree, and have committed fornication there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:11 - For thus saith the Lord concerning Sellem the son of Josias, who reigns in the place of Josias his father, who has gone forth out of this place; He shall not return thither any more:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:18 - Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning Joakim son of Josias, king of Juda, even concerning this man; they shall not bewail him, saying, Ah brother! neither shall they at all weep for him, saying, Alas Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:1 - The Word that came to Jeremias concerning all the people of Juda in the fourth year of Joakim, son of Josias, king of Juda;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:3 - In the thirteenth year of Josias, son of Amos, king of Juda, even until this day for three and twenty years, I have both spoken to you, rising early and speaking,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:1 - (LXX 33:1) In the beginning of the Reign of King Joakim Son of Josias there came this Word from the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:1 - (LXX 42:1) The Word that came to Jeremias from the Lord in the days of Joakim, king of Juda, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:1 - (LXX 43:1) In the fourth Year of Joakim son of Josias king of Juda, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:2 - (LXX 43:2) Take thee a roll of a book, and write upon it all the words which I spoke to thee against Jerusalem, and against Juda, and against all the nations, from the day when I spoke to thee, from the days of Josias king of Juda, even to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:9 - (LXX 43:9) And it came to pass in the eighth year of king Joakim, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem, and the house of Juda, proclaimed a fast before the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:1 - (LXX 44:1) And Sedekias the son of Josias reigned instead of Joakim, whom Nabuchodonosor appointed to reign over Juda.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 45:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 45:1 - (LXX 51:31) The Word which Jeremias the Prophet spoke to Baruch son of Nerias, when he wrote these words in the book from the mouth of Jeremias, in the fourth year of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:2 - (LXX 26:2) For Egypt, against the Power of Pharao Nechao King of Egypt, who was by the river Euphrates in Charmis, whom Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Joakim king of Juda.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:1 - The word of the Lord which came to Sophonias the son of Chusi, the son of Godolias, the son of Amorias, the son of Ezekias, in the days of Josias son of Amon, king of Juda.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:10 - Take the things of the captivity from [fn]the chief men, and from the useful men of it, and from them that have understood it; and thou shalt enter in that day into the house of Josias the son of Sophonias that came out of Babylon.
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