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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.
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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 13 times in 12 verses in '2Ki' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:24 - Then the people of the land struck down all those who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah H2977 his son king in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:26 - And he was buried in his grave in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah H2977 his son became king in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:1 -

Josiah H2977 was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:3 -

Now it happened in the eighteenth year of King Josiah H2977, that the king sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam the scribe, to the house of Yahweh saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:16 - Then Josiah H2977 turned, and he saw the graves that were there on the mountain, and he sent and took the bones from the graves and burned them on the altar and defiled it according to the word of Yahweh which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:19 - And also all the houses of the high places which were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made provoking [fn]Yahweh to anger, Josiah H2977 removed; and he did to them [fn]just as he had done in Bethel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:23 - But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah H2977, this Passover was celebrated to Yahweh in Jerusalem.

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Moreover, the mediums and the spiritists and the teraphim and the idols and all the detestable things that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah H2977 purged in order that he might [fn]establish the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:28 -

Now the rest of the acts of Josiah H2977 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 Box2Ki 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. And King Josiah H2977 went to meet him, and when Pharaoh Neco saw him he put him to death at Megiddo.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:30 - And his servants drove [fn]his body in a chariot from Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah H2977 and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:34 - Then Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim the son of Josiah H2977 king in the place of Josiah H2977 his father and changed his name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz and [fn]brought him to Egypt, and he died there.
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