NASB20

NASB20

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Strong's
Red Letter
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Lexicon :: Strong's H2977 - yō'šîyâ

Choose a new font size and typeface
יֹאשִׁיָּה
Transliteration
yō'šîyâ
Pronunciation
yo-shee-yaw'
Listen
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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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 53 times in 48 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:2 - And he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD and said, “Altar, altar, this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah H2977 by name; and on you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and human bones shall burn on you.’”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:24 - Then the people of the land [fn]killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made his son Josiah H2977 king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:26 - He was buried in his grave in the garden of Uzza, and his son Josiah H2977 became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:1 -

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

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:3 -

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

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:16 - Now when Josiah H2977 turned, he saw the graves that were there on the mountain, and he sent men and took the bones from the graves, and burned them on the altar and defiled it in accordance with the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, the one who proclaimed these things.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:19 - Then Josiah H2977 also removed all the houses of the high places which were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had constructed, [fn]provoking the LORD to anger; and he did to them [fn]just as he had done in Bethel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:23 - But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah H2977, this Passover was celebrated to the LORD in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24 -

Moreover, Josiah H2977 removed the mediums, the spiritists, the [fn]household idols, the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, so that he might [fn]fulfill the words of the Law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.

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?

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:29 - In his days Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up to the king of Assyria at the river Euphrates. And King Josiah H2977 went to meet him, and when Pharaoh Neco saw him he killed him at Megiddo.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:30 - His servants carried [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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:34 - Then Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim the son of Josiah H2977 king in the place of his father Josiah H2977, and he changed his name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz and [fn]brought him to Egypt, and he died there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:14 - Amon, his son, and Josiah H2977, his son.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:15 - The sons of Josiah H2977 were Johanan, the firstborn, the second was Jehoiakim, the third, Zedekiah, and the fourth, Shallum.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:25 - But the people of the land [fn]killed all the conspirators against King Amon, and the people of the land made his son Josiah H2977 king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:1 -

Josiah H2977 was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:33 - Josiah H2977 removed all the abominations from all the lands belonging to the sons of Israel, and made all who were present in Israel serve the LORD their God. Throughout his [fn]lifetime they did not turn from following the LORD God of their fathers.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:1 -

Then Josiah H2977 celebrated the Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem, and they slaughtered the Passover animals on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:7 -

Josiah H2977 contributed to the lay people, to all who were present, flocks of lambs and young goats, all for the Passover offerings, numbering thirty thousand, plus three thousand bulls; these were from the king’s property.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:16 -

So all the service of the LORD was prepared on that day to celebrate the Passover, and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD according to the command of King Josiah H2977.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:18 - There had not been a Passover celebrated like it in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet; nor had any of the kings of Israel celebrated such a Passover as Josiah H2977 did with the priests, the Levites, all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:19 - In the eighteenth year of Josiah’s H2977 reign this Passover was celebrated.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:20 -

After all this, when Josiah H2977 had set the [fn]temple in order, Neco king of Egypt came up to wage war at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah H2977 went out to engage him.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:22 - However, Josiah H2977 would not turn [fn]away from him, but disguised himself in order to fight against him; nor did he listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, but he came to wage war on the plain of Megiddo.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:23 - The archers shot King Josiah H2977, and the king said to his servants, “Take me away, for I am badly wounded.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:24 - So his servants took him out of the chariot and carried him on the second chariot which he had, and brought him to Jerusalem [fn]where he died and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah H2977.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:25 - Then Jeremiah chanted a song of mourning for Josiah H2977. And all the male and female singers speak about Josiah H2977 in their songs of mourning to this day. And they made them an ordinance in Israel; behold, they are also written in the Lamentations.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:26 - Now the rest of the acts of Josiah H2977 and his deeds of devotion as written in the Law of the LORD,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:1 -

Then the people of the land took [fn]Joahaz the son of Josiah H2977 and made him king in place of his father in Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:2 - to whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah H2977 the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:3 - It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah H2977, king of Judah, until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah H2977, king of Judah, until the exile of Jerusalem in the fifth month.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:6 -

Then the LORD said to me in the days of King Josiah H2977, “Have you seen what faithless Israel did? She went up on every high hill and under every leafy tree, and she prostituted herself there.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:11 -

For this is what the LORD says regarding [fn]Shallum the son of Josiah H2977, king of Judah, who became king in the place of his father Josiah H2977, who went out from this place: “He will never return there;

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:18 -

Therefore this is what the LORD says regarding Jehoiakim the son of Josiah H2977, king of Judah:

“They will not mourn for him:

‘Oh, my brother!’ or, ‘Oh, sister!’

They will not mourn for him:

‘Oh, for the master!’ or, ‘Oh, for his splendor!’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:1 -

The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah H2977, king of Judah (that was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon),

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:3 - “From the thirteenth year of Josiah H2977 the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, [fn]these twenty-three years the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:1 -

In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah H2977, king of Judah, this word came from the LORD, saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:1 -

In the beginning of the reign of [fn]Zedekiah the son of Josiah H2977, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:1 -

The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah H2977, king of Judah, saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:1 -

In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah H2977, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:2 - “Take a [fn]scroll and write on it all the words which I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah, and all the nations, from the day I first spoke to you, from the days of Josiah H2977, even to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:9 -

Now in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah H2977, king of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem proclaimed a fast before the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:1 -

Now Zedekiah the son of Josiah H2977 whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had made king in the land of Judah, reigned as king in place of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 45:1 -

This is the message which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book [fn]at Jeremiah’s dictation, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah H2977, king of Judah, saying:

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:2 -

To Egypt, concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates at Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah H2977, king of Judah:

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:1 -

The word of the LORD which came to Zephaniah son of Cushi, son of Gedaliah, son of Amariah, son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah H2977 son of Amon, king of Judah:

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:10 - “Take an offering from the exiles, from Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah; and you shall go the same day and enter the house of Josiah H2977 the son of Zephaniah, where they have arrived from Babylon.
BLB Searches
Search the Bible
NASB20
 [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
NASB20

Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan