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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
35x 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 35 times in 31 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:2 - And the man cried against the altar by the word of the LORD and said, “O altar, altar, thus says the LORD: ‘Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name, and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who make offerings on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:24 - But the people of the land struck down all those who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:26 - And he was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son reigned in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:1 - Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:3 - In the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, the secretary, to the house of the LORD, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:9 - And Shaphan the secretary came to the king, and reported to the king, “Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:16 - And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mount. And he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar and defiled it, according to the word of the LORD that the man of God proclaimed, who had predicted these things.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:19 - And Josiah removed all the shrines also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which kings of Israel had made, provoking the LORD to anger. He did to them according to all that he had done at Bethel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:23 - But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah this Passover was kept to the LORD in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24 - Moreover, Josiah put away the mediums and the necromancers and the household gods and the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might establish the words of the law that were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:28 - Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:29 - In his days Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up to the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates. King Josiah went to meet him, and Pharaoh Neco killed him at Megiddo, as soon as he saw him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:30 - And his servants carried him dead in a chariot from Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:34 - And Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the place of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz away, and he came to Egypt and died there.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:25 - But the people of the land struck down all those who had conspired against King Amon. And the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:1

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:33 - And Josiah took away all the abominations from all the territory that belonged to the people of Israel and made all who were present in Israel serve the LORD their God. All his days they did not turn away from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:1 - Josiah kept a Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem. And they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the first month.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:7 - Then Josiah contributed to the lay people, as Passover offerings for all who were present, lambs and young goats from the flock to the number of 30,000, and 3,000 bulls; these were from the king’s possessions.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:16 - So all the service of the LORD was prepared that day, to keep the Passover and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD, according to the command of King Josiah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:18 - No Passover like it had been kept in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel had kept such a Passover as was kept by Josiah, and the priests and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:19 - In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah this Passover was kept.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:20 - After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to meet him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:22 - Nevertheless, Josiah did not turn away from him, but disguised himself in order to fight with him. He did not listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, but came to fight in the plain of Megiddo.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:23 - And the archers shot King Josiah. And the king said to his servants, “Take me away, for I am badly wounded.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:24 - So his servants took him out of the chariot and carried him in his second chariot and brought him to Jerusalem. And he died and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:25 - Jeremiah also uttered a lament for Josiah; and all the singing men and singing women have spoken of Josiah in their laments to this day. They made these a rule in Israel; behold, they are written in the Laments.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:26 - Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his good deeds according to what is written in the Law of the LORD,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 36:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:1 - The people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and made him king in his father’s place in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 36:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:4 - And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Jehoahaz his brother and carried him to Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:1 - The word of the LORD that came to Zephaniah the son of Cushi, son of Gedaliah, son of Amariah, son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.
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