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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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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 - Then he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, and said, “O altar, altar! Thus says the LORD: ‘Behold, a child, Josiah by name, shall be born to the house of David; and on you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and men’s 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 executed all those who had conspired against King Amon. Then the people of the land made his son Josiah 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. Then 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 became king, 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 - Now it came to pass, in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the scribe, the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, to the house of the LORD, saying:

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:9 - So Shaphan the scribe went to the king, bringing the king word, saying, “Your servants have gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of those who do the work, who oversee the house of the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:16 - As Josiah turned, he saw the tombs that were there on the mountain. 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 which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:19 - Now Josiah also took away all the shrines of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD[fn] to anger; and he did to them according to all the deeds he had done in 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 held before the LORD in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24 - Moreover Josiah put away those who consulted mediums and spiritists, the household gods and idols, all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might perform the words of the law which 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 Necho king of Egypt went to the aid of the king of Assyria, to the River Euphrates; and King Josiah went against him. And Pharaoh Necho killed him at Megiddo when he confronted him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:30 - Then his servants moved his body in a chariot from Megiddo, brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, 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 - Then Pharaoh Necho made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. And Pharaoh took Jehoahaz and went to Egypt, and he[fn] died there.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:25 - But the people of the land executed all those who had conspired against King Amon. Then the people of the land made his son Josiah 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 became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:33 - Thus Josiah removed all the abominations from all the country that belonged to the children of Israel, and made all who were present in Israel diligently serve the LORD their God. All his days they did not depart from following the LORD God of their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:1 - Now Josiah kept a Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem, and they slaughtered the Passover lambs 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 gave the lay people lambs and young goats from the flock, all for Passover offerings for all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, as well as three thousand cattle; 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 the same 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 - There had been no Passover kept in Israel like that since the days of Samuel the prophet; and none of the kings of Israel had kept such a Passover as Josiah kept, with the priests and the Levites, 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, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates; and Josiah went out against him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:22 - Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself so that he might fight with him, and did not heed the words of Necho from the mouth of God. So he came to fight in the Valley 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 severely wounded.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:24 - His servants therefore took him out of that chariot and put him in the second chariot that he had, and they brought him to Jerusalem. So he died, and was buried in one of the tombs of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:25 - Jeremiah also lamented for Josiah. And to this day all the singing men and the singing women speak of Josiah in their lamentations. They made it a custom in Israel; and indeed 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 goodness, according to what was written in the Law of the LORD,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 36:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:1 - Then 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 - Then the king of Egypt made Jehoahaz’s[fn] brother Eliakim king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz[fn] his brother and carried him off to Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:1

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