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Lexicon :: Strong's H2977 - yō'šîyâ

Aa
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.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:2 - And by the order of the Lord he made an outcry against the altar, saying, O altar, altar, the Lord has said, From the seed of David will come a child, named Josiah, and on you he will put to death the priests of the high places, who are burning offerings on you, and men's bones will be burned on you.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:24 - But the people of the land put to death all those who had taken part in the design against the king, and made Josiah his son king in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:26 - He was put in his last resting-place in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son became king in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:1 - Josiah was eight years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for thirty-one years; his mother's name was Jedidah, daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:3 - Now in the eighteenth year after he became king, Josiah sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the Lord, saying to him,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:16 - Then Josiah, turning round, saw on the mountain the places of the dead, and he sent and had the bones taken out of their places and burned on the altar, so making it unclean, as the Lord had said by the man of God when Jeroboam was in his place by the altar on that feast-day. And he, turning his eyes to the resting-place of the man of God who had given word of these things, said:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:19 - Then Josiah took away all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had put up, moving the Lord to wrath, and he did with them as he had done in Beth-el.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:23 - In the eighteenth year of the rule of King Josiah this Passover was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24 - And all those who had control of spirits, and the wonder-workers, and the images, and the false gods, and all the disgusting things which were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah put away, so that he might give effect to the words of the agreement recorded in the book which Hilkiah the priest made discovery of in the house of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:28 - Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history 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, sent his armies against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and King Josiah went out against him; and he put him to death at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:30 - And his servants took his body in a carriage from Megiddo to Jerusalem, and put him into the earth there. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah, and put the holy oil on 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-necoh made Eliakim, the son of Josiah, king in place of Josiah his father, changing his name to Jehoiakim; but Jehoahaz he took away to Egypt, where he was till his death.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:14 - Amon his son, Josiah his son.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:15 - And the sons of Josiah: the oldest Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:25 - But the people of the land put to death all those who had taken part in the design against King Amon, and made his son Josiah king in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:1 - Josiah was eight years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for thirty-one years.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:33 - Josiah took away all the disgusting things out of all the lands of the children of Israel, and made all who were in Israel servants of the Lord their God. And as long as he was living they were true to the Lord, the God of their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:1 - And Josiah kept a Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem; on the fourteenth day of the first month they put the Passover lamb to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:7 - And Josiah gave lambs and goats from the flock as Passover offerings for all the people who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand oxen: these were from the king's private property.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:16 - So everything needed for the worship of the Lord was made ready that same day, for the keeping of the Passover and the offering of burned offerings on the altar of the Lord, as King Josiah had given orders.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:18 - No Passover like it had been kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; and not one of the kings of Israel had ever kept a Passover like the one kept by Josiah and the priests and the Levites and all those of Judah and Israel who were present, and the people of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:19

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:20 - After all this, and after Josiah had put the house in order, Neco, king of Egypt, went up to make war at Carchemish by the river Euphrates; and Josiah went out against him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:22 - However, Josiah would not go back; but keeping to his purpose of fighting against him, and giving no attention to the words of Neco, which came from God, he went forward to the fight in the valley of Megiddo.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:23 - And the bowmen sent their arrows at King Josiah, and the king said to his servants, Take me away, for I am badly wounded.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:24 - So his servants took him out of the line of war-carriages, and put him in his second carriage and took him to Jerusalem, where he came to his end, and they put his body in the resting-place of his fathers. And in all Judah and Jerusalem there was great weeping for Josiah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:25 - And Jeremiah made a song of grief for Josiah; and to this day Josiah is named by all the makers of melody, men and women, in their songs of grief; they made it a rule in Israel; and the songs are recorded among the songs of grief.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:26 - Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and the good he did, in keeping with what is recorded in the law of the Lord,

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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 Jerusalem in place of his father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:2 - To whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his rule.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:3 - And it came again in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, up to the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah; till Jerusalem was taken away in the fifth month.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:6 - And the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what Israel, turning away from me, has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every branching tree, acting like a loose woman there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:11 - For this is what the Lord has said about Shallum, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who became king in place of Josiah his father, who went out from this place: He will never come back there again:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:18 - So this is what the Lord has said about Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah: They will make no weeping for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they will make no weeping for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:1 - The word which came to Jeremiah about all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah king of Judah; this was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:3 - From the thirteenth year of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah, even till this day, for twenty-three years, the word of the Lord has been coming to me, and I have given it to you, getting up early and talking to you; but you have not given ear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:1 - When Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, first became king, this word came from the Lord, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:1 - When Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, first became king this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:1 - The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:1 - Now it came about in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, that this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:2 - Take a book and put down in it all the words I have said to you against Israel and against Judah and against all the nations, from the day when my word came to you in the days of Josiah till this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:9 - Now it came about in the fifth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that it was given out publicly that all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people who came from the towns of Judah to Jerusalem, were to keep from food before the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:1 - And Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, became king in place of Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, made king in the land of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 45:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 45:1 - The words which Jeremiah the prophet said to Baruch, the son of Neriah, when he put these words down in a book from the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah; he said,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:2 - Of Egypt: about the army of Pharaoh-neco, king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, overcame in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:1 - The word of the Lord which came to 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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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:10 - Take the offerings of those who went away as prisoners, from Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah, and from the family of Josiah, the son of Zephaniah, who have come from Babylon;
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