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Lexicon :: Strong's G2502 - iōsias

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Ἰωσίας
Transliteration
iōsias (Key)
Pronunciation
ee-o-see'-as
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of Hebrew origin יֹאשִׁיָּה (H2977)
mGNT
2x in 2 unique form(s) TR
2x in 2 unique form(s) LXX
34x in 4 unique form(s)
Strong’s Definitions

Ἰωσίας Iōsías, ee-o-see'-as; of Hebrew origin (H2977); Josias (i.e. Joshiah), an Israelite:—Josias.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x

The KJV translates Strong's G2502 in the following manner: Josias (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x
The KJV translates Strong's G2502 in the following manner: Josias (2x).

  1. Josiah = "whom Jehovah heals"

    1. king of Judah, who restored among the Jews the worship of the true God, and after a reign of thirty one years was slain in battle about 611 BC

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
Ἰωσίας Iōsías, ee-o-see'-as; of Hebrew origin (H2977); Josias (i.e. Joshiah), an Israelite:—Josias.
STRONGS G2502:
Ἰωσίας (L T Tr WH Ἰωσείας (see WH's Appendix, p. 155; under the word εἰ, ἰ)), Ιωσιου, ὁ (יֹאשִׁיָּהוּ i. e. whom 'Jehovah heals'), Josiah, king of Judah, who restored among the Jews the worship of the true God, and after a reign of thirty-one years was slain in battle circa (2 Kings 22; 2 Chronicles 34f): Matthew 1:10f.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

2 Kings
22
2 Chronicles
34
Matthew
1:10

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Strong's Number G2502 matches the Greek Ἰωσίας (iōsias),
which occurs 34 times in 31 verses in the LXX Greek.

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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 22:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:9 - And he went into the house of the Lord to the king, and reported the matter to the king, and said, Thy servants have [fn]collected the money that was found in the house of the Lord, and have given it into the hand of the workmen that are appointed in the house of the Lord.

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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 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 Box2Ch 36:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:4 - And Pharao Nechao made Eliakim the son of Josias king over Juda in the room of his father Josias, and changed his name to Joakim. And Pharao Nechao took his brother Joachaz and brought him into Egypt, and he died there: (LXX 36:4a) but he had given the silver and the gold to Pharao. At that time the land began to be taxed to give the money at the command of Pharao; and every one as he could borrowed the silver and the gold of the people of the land, to give to Pharao Nechao.

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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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