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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 53 times in 48 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:2 - And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah H2977 by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:24 - And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah H2977 his son king in his stead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:26 - And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah H2977 his son reigned in his stead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:1 - Josiah H2977 was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:3 - And it came to pass 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 the LORD, saying,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:16 - And as Josiah H2977 turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:19 - And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger, Josiah H2977 took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:23 - But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, H2977 wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24 - Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah H2977 put away, 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.
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 Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah H2977 went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:30 - And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, H2977 and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:34 - And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah H2977 king in the room of Josiah H2977 his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:14 - Amon his son, Josiah H2977 his son.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:15 - And the sons of Josiah H2977 were, the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:25 - But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah H2977 his son king in his stead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:1 - Josiah H2977 was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:33 - And Josiah H2977 took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. And all his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:1 - Moreover Josiah H2977 kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:7 - And Josiah H2977 gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king's substance.
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 upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah. H2977
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:18 - And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah H2977 kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:19 - In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah H2977 was this passover kept.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:20 - After all this, when Josiah H2977 had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah H2977 went out against him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:22 - Nevertheless Josiah H2977 would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:23 - And the archers shot at king Josiah; H2977 and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.
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, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah. H2977
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:25 - And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: H2977 and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah H2977 in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:26 - Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, H2977 and his goodness, according to that which was written in the law of the LORD,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:1 - Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, H2977 and made him king in his father's stead 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, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah H2977 king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:6 - The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah H2977 the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:11 - For thus saith the LORD touching Shallum the son of Josiah H2977 king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah H2977 his father, which went forth out of this place; He shall not return thither any more:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:18 - Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah H2977 king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
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 Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:3 - From the thirteenth year of Josiah H2977 the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:1 - In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah H2977 king of Judah came this word from the LORD, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:1 - In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah H2977 king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:1 - The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah H2977 king of Judah, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:1 - And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah H2977 king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:2 - Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, H2977 even unto this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:9 - And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah H2977 king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:1 - And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah H2977 reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 45:1 - The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah H2977 king of Judah, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:2 - Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote 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 unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah H2977 the son of Amon, king of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:10 - Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, which are come from Babylon, and come thou the same day, and go into the house of Josiah H2977 the son of Zephaniah;
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