Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H2977
יֹאשִׁיָּה
Yoshiahyo-shee-yaw'
Josiah
53 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Yôʼshîyâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2977is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 23spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2977
Joshijah, the name of two Israelites
The King James renders it: Josiah.
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
Yoshiah is rendered "Josiah". It stands 53 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Eighteen of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Kings 13:2And he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, “O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: ‘A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David, and upon you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and human bones will be burned upon you.’”
- The Greek text spells it twenty-three different ways.
The first use
And he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, “O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: ‘A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David, and upon you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and human bones will be burned upon you.’”
1 Kings 13:2יֹאשִׁיָּ֣הוּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eighteen of the word's fifty-three uses are in Jeremiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Josiah52
- of Josiah1
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.
The words it stands beside
All 53, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
23 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
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֣הוּ7
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֖הוּ7
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֥הוּ6
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֑הוּ4
- יֹֽאשִׁיָּ֑הוּ4
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֙הוּ֙4
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֗הוּ2
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֔הוּ2
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֛הוּ2
- יֹאשִׁיָּֽהוּ׃2
- יֹאושִׁיָּ֖הוּ1
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֣ה1
and 11 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)52HNpm
- preposition + proper noun (a name)1HR/Npm
1 Kings
one use
And he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, “O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: ‘A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David, and upon you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and human bones will be burned upon you.’”
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֣הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
2 Kings
thirteen uses
But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֥הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
And he was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and his son Josiah reigned in his place.
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֥הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. His mother’s name was Jedidah daughter of Adaiah; she was from Bozkath.
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֣הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, King Josiah sent the scribe, Shaphan son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, to the house of the LORD, saying,
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֑הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the hillside, and he sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar to defile it, according to the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who had foretold these things.
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֗הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
Just as Josiah had done at Bethel, so also in the cities of Samaria he removed all the shrines of the high places set up by the kings of Israel who had provoked the LORD to anger.
- יֹֽאשִׁיָּ֑הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
But in the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign, this Passover was observed to the LORD in Jerusalem.
- יֹֽאשִׁיָּ֑הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
Furthermore, Josiah removed the mediums and spiritists, the household gods and idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. He did this to carry out the words of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of the LORD.
- יֹֽאשִׁיָּ֑הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
As for the rest of the acts of Josiah, along with all his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֖הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
At the end of Josiah’s reign, Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt marched up to help the king of Assyria at the Euphrates River. King Josiah went out to confront him, but Neco faced him and killed him at Megiddo.
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֙הוּ֙yoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
From Megiddo his servants carried his body in a chariot, brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah, anointed him, and made him king in place of his father.
- יֹ֣אשִׁיָּ֔הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
Then Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah, and he changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt, where he died.
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֗הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֣הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
1 Chronicles
two uses
Amon his son, and Josiah his son.
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֥הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
The sons of Josiah: Johanan was the firstborn, Jehoiakim the second, Zedekiah the third, and Shallum the fourth.
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֔הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
2 Chronicles
seventeen uses
But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֥הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years.
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֣הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
And Josiah removed all the abominations from all the lands belonging to the Israelites, and he required everyone in Israel to serve the LORD their God. Throughout his reign they did not turn aside from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.
- יֹֽאשִׁיָּ֜הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
Then Josiah celebrated the Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem, and the Passover lamb was slaughtered on the fourteenth day of the first month.
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֧הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
From his own flocks and herds Josiah contributed 30,000 lambs and goats plus 3,000 bulls for the Passover offerings for all the people who were present.
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֣הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
So on that day the entire service of the LORD was carried out for celebrating the Passover and offering burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD, according to the command of King Josiah.
- יֹאשִׁיָּֽהוּ׃yoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
No such Passover had been observed in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel ever observed a Passover like the one that Josiah observed with the priests, the Levites, all Judah, the Israelites who were present, and the people of Jerusalem.
- יֹֽ֠אשִׁיָּהוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
In the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign, this Passover was observed.
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֑הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
After all this, when Josiah had set the temple in order, Neco king of Egypt marched up to fight at Carchemish by the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to confront him.
- יֹֽאשִׁיָּ֙הוּ֙yoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
- יֹאשִׁיָּֽהוּ׃yoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
Josiah, however, did not turn away from him; instead, in order to engage him in battle, he disguised himself. He did not listen to Neco’s words from the mouth of God, but went to fight him on the Plain of Megiddo.
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֨הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
There the archers shot King Josiah, who said to his servants, “Take me away, for I am badly wounded!”
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֑הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
So his servants took him out of his chariot, put him in his second chariot, and brought him to Jerusalem, where he died. And Josiah was buried in the tomb of his fathers, and all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for him.
- יֹאשִׁיָּֽהוּ׃ פyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
Then Jeremiah lamented over Josiah, and to this day all the choirs of men and women sing laments over Josiah. They established them as a statute for Israel, and indeed they are written in the Book of Laments.
- יֹאשִׁיָּהוּ֒yoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֙הוּ֙yoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
As for the rest of the acts of Josiah, along with his deeds of loving devotion according to what is written in the Law of the LORD—
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֖הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֑הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
Jeremiah
eighteen uses
The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah,
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֥הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
and through the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, until the fifth month of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, when the people of Jerusalem went into exile.
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֙הוּ֙yoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֖הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there.
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֣הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
For this is what the LORD says concerning Shallum son of Josiah, king of Judah, who succeeded his father Josiah but has gone forth from this place: “He will never return,
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֜הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֣הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: “They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my brother! Alas, my sister!’ They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my master! Alas, his splendor!’
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֙הוּ֙yoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֖הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
“From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day—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.
- לְיֹאשִׁיָּ֣הוּleyoshiyahupreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Josiah
At the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came from the LORD:
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֖הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
At the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD.
- יֹאושִׁיָּ֖הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah:
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֛הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֖הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
“Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah, and all the nations, from the day I first spoke to you during the reign of Josiah until today.
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֔הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
Now in the ninth month of the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, a fast before the LORD was proclaimed to all the people of Jerusalem and all who had come there from the cities of Judah.
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֤הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made Zedekiah son of Josiah the king of Judah, and he reigned in place of Coniah son of Jehoiakim.
- יֹֽאשִׁיָּ֑הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
This is the word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch son of Neriah when he wrote these words on a scroll at the dictation of Jeremiah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah:
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֛הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
concerning Egypt and the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was defeated at Carchemish on the Euphrates River by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah:
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֖הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
Zephaniah
one use
This is the word of the LORD that came to Zephaniah son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah:
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֥הוּyoshiyahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
Zechariah
one use
“Take an offering from the exiles—from Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah, who have arrived from Babylon—and go that same day to the house of Josiah son of Zephaniah.
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֣הyoshiyahproper noun (a name)tagged: Josiah
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.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.