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Lexicon :: Strong's G2502 - iōsias

Aa
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
34x 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 34 times in 31 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:2 - And he cried against the altar by the word of Jehovah, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith Jehovah: Behold, a son shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he sacrifice the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men’s bones shall they burn upon thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:24 - But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:26 - And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:1 - Josiah 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 Bozkath.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:3 - And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of Jehovah, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:9 - And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen that have the oversight of the house of Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:16 - And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount; and he sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of Jehovah 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 all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke Jehovah to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:23 - but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover kept to Jehovah in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24 - Moreover them that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 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 Box2Ki 23:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:29 - In his days Pharaoh-necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and Pharaoh-necoh slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:30

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, and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s stead.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:34 - And Pharaoh-necoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim: but he took Jehoahaz away; and he came to Egypt, and died there.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:25

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 his son king in his stead.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:1 - Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:33 - And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were found in Israel to serve, even to serve Jehovah their God. All his days they departed not from following Jehovah, the God of their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:1 - And Josiah kept a passover unto Jehovah in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:7 - And Josiah gave to the children of the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all of them for the passover-offerings, unto all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king’s substance.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:16 - So all the service of Jehovah was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt-offerings upon the altar of Jehovah, according to the commandment of king Josiah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:18

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 any of the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:19 - In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:20 - After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:22 - Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:23 - And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:24

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:25 - And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations unto this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:26 - Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his good deeds, according to that which is written in the law of Jehovah,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 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 stead in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:4 - And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. And Neco took Joahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:1 - The word of Jehovah which came unto 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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