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Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H1955

הוֹשַׁעְיָה

Hoshayahho-shah-yaw'

Hoshaiah

3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: Hôwshaʻyâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1955is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 2 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 3
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H1955

Hoshajah, the name of two Israelites

The King James renders it: Hoshaiah.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

Hoshayah is rendered "Hoshaiah". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.

  • Two of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Nehemiah 12:32Hoshaiah and half the leaders of Judah followed,
  • The Greek text spells it three different ways.

The first use

Hoshaiah and half the leaders of Judah followed,

Nehemiah 12:32הוֹשַׁ֣עְיָ֔ה

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Two of the word's three uses are in Jeremiah.

The other 37 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • Hoshaiah3

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

All 3, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

3 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • הוֹשַׁ֣עְיָ֔ה1
  • הוֹשַֽׁעְיָ֑ה1
  • הוֹשַֽׁעְיָה֙1

The grammar of each form

  • proper noun (a name)3HNpm

Nehemiah

one use
  • Hoshaiah and half the leaders of Judah followed,

    Nehemiah 12:32

    • הוֹשַׁ֣עְיָ֔הhosha'yahproper noun (a name)tagged: Hoshaiah

Jeremiah

two uses
  • Then all the commanders of the forces, along with Johanan son of Kareah, Jezaniah son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least to the greatest, approached

    Jeremiah 42:1

    • הוֹשַֽׁעְיָ֑הhosha'yahproper noun (a name)tagged: Hoshaiah
  • Azariah son of Hoshaiah, Johanan son of Kareah, and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are lying! The LORD our God has not sent you to say, ‘You must not go to Egypt to reside there.’

    Jeremiah 43:2

    • הוֹשַֽׁעְיָה֙hosha'yahproper noun (a name)tagged: Hoshaiah

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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