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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 - Then at the LORD’s command, he shouted, “O altar, altar! This is what the LORD says: A child named Josiah will be born into the dynasty of David. On you he will sacrifice the priests from the pagan shrines who come here to burn incense, and human bones will 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 killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah the next king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:26 - He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza. Then his son Josiah became the next king.

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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 in Jerusalem thirty-one years. His mother was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah from Bozkath.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:3 - In the eighteenth year of his reign, King Josiah sent Shaphan son of Azaliah and grandson of Meshullam, the court secretary, to the Temple of the LORD. He told him,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:9 - Shaphan went to the king and reported, “Your officials have turned over the money collected at the Temple of the LORD to the workers and supervisors at the Temple.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:16 - Then Josiah turned around and noticed several tombs in the side of the hill. He ordered that the bones be brought out, and he burned them on the altar at Bethel to desecrate it. (This happened just as the LORD had promised through the man of God when Jeroboam stood beside the altar at the festival.)
Then Josiah turned and looked up at the tomb of the man of God[fn] who had predicted these things.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:19 - Then Josiah demolished all the buildings at the pagan shrines in the towns of Samaria, just as he had done at Bethel. They had been built by the various kings of Israel and had made the LORD[fn] very angry.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:23 - This Passover was celebrated to the LORD in Jerusalem in the eighteenth year of King Josiah’s reign.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24 - Josiah also got rid of the mediums and psychics, the household gods, the idols,[fn] and every other kind of detestable practice, both in Jerusalem and throughout the land of Judah. He did this in obedience to the laws written in the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had found in the LORD’s Temple.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:28 - The rest of the events in Josiah’s reign and all his deeds are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:29 - While Josiah was king, Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, went to the Euphrates River to help the king of Assyria. King Josiah and his army marched out to fight him,[fn] but King Neco[fn] killed him when they met at Megiddo.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:30 - Josiah’s officers took his body back in a chariot from Megiddo to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. Then the people of the land anointed Josiah’s son Jehoahaz and made him the next king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:34 - Pharaoh Neco then installed Eliakim, another of Josiah’s sons, to reign in place of his father, and he changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. Jehoahaz was taken to Egypt as a prisoner, where he died.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:25 - But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah the next king.

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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 in Jerusalem thirty-one years.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:33 - So Josiah removed all detestable idols from the entire land of Israel and required everyone to worship the LORD their God. And throughout the rest of his lifetime, they did not turn away from the LORD, the God of their ancestors.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:1 - Then Josiah announced that the Passover of the LORD would be celebrated in Jerusalem, and so the Passover lamb was slaughtered on the fourteenth day of the first month.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:7 - Then Josiah provided 30,000 lambs and young goats for the people’s Passover offerings, along with 3,000 cattle, all from the king’s own flocks and herds.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:16 - The entire ceremony for the LORD’s Passover was completed that day. All the burnt offerings were sacrificed on the altar of the LORD, as King Josiah had commanded.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:18 - Never since the time of the prophet Samuel had there been such a Passover. None of the kings of Israel had ever kept a Passover as Josiah did, involving all the priests and Levites, all the people of Jerusalem, and people from all over Judah and Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:19 - This Passover celebration took place in the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:20 - After Josiah had finished restoring the Temple, King Neco of Egypt led his army up from Egypt to do battle at Carchemish on the Euphrates River, and Josiah and his army marched out to fight him.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:22 - But Josiah refused to listen to Neco, to whom God had indeed spoken, and he would not turn back. Instead, he disguised himself and led his army into battle on the plain of Megiddo.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:23 - But the enemy archers hit King Josiah with their arrows and wounded him. He cried out to his men, “Take me from the battle, for I am badly wounded!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:24 - So they lifted Josiah out of his chariot and placed him in another chariot. Then they brought him back to Jerusalem, where he died. He was buried there in the royal cemetery. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:25 - The prophet Jeremiah composed funeral songs for Josiah, and to this day choirs still sing these sad songs about his death. These songs of sorrow have become a tradition and are recorded in The Book of Laments.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:26 - The rest of the events of Josiah’s reign and his acts of devotion (carried out 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 Josiah’s son Jehoahaz and made him the next king in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 36:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:4 - The king of Egypt then installed Eliakim, the brother of Jehoahaz, as the next king of Judah and Jerusalem, and he changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. Then Neco took Jehoahaz to Egypt as a prisoner.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:1 - The LORD gave this message to Zephaniah when Josiah son of Amon was king of Judah. Zephaniah was the son of Cushi, son of Gedaliah, son of Amariah, son of Hezekiah.
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