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Strong's H2977 יֹאשִׁיָּה (yoshiah)

Yoshiah means “Josiah” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G2977 — lathra (“privily”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H2977
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 48
Books 7

Strong's H2977 Quick Answer

Strong's H2977 יוֹאשִׁיָה יוֹאשִׁיָהוּ (Yo'shiyah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. Yo'shiyah (yo-shee-yaw') (or {yo-she-yaw'-hoo}) n/p. 1. founded of Jah 2. Joshijah, the name of two Israelites It has 48 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include name, same, and found. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
Yo'shiyah (yo-shee-yaw') (or {yo-she-yaw'-hoo}) n/p. 1. founded of Jah 2. Joshijah, the name of two Israelites
Usage
48 linked usages
Books
7 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
name, same, and found

Meaning and Definition

Yo'shiyah (yo-shee-yaw') (or {yo-she-yaw'-hoo}) n/p. 1. founded of Jah 2. Joshijah, the name of two Israelites [from the same root as H803 and H3050] KJV: Josiah. Root(s): H803, H3050

Original Word
יוֹאשִׁיָה יוֹאשִׁיָהוּ
Transliteration
Yo'shiyah
Derivation
First root strongs: 803 Second root strongs: 3050
Morphology
name

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H2977. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

Josiah

Usage: A king of the tribe of Judah living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Ki.13.2; son of: Amon (H0526H) and Jedidah (H3040); married to Hamutal (H2537) and Zebidah (H2080); father of: Jehoahaz (H3059H), Jehoiakim (H3079), Zedekiah (H6667H) and Shallum (H7967J) Also named: Iōsias (Ἰωσίας "Josiah" G2502) § 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

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How Strong's H2977 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Yo'shiyah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

How Strong's H2977 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 48 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H2977 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H2977 in the Old Testament

48 indexed usages in Old Testament.

1 Kings 13:2 KJV

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 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.

2 Kings 21:24 KJV

And 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.

2 Kings 21:26 KJV

And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.

Usage Excerpts

First 48 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2977.

1 Kings 13:2 Old Testament, KJV
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 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.
2 Kings 21:24 Old Testament, KJV
And 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.
2 Kings 21:26 Old Testament, KJV
And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 22:1 Old Testament, KJV
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 Boscath.
2 Kings 22:3 Old Testament, KJV
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 the LORD, saying,
2 Kings 23:16 Old Testament, KJV
And as Josiah 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.
2 Kings 23:19 Old Testament, KJV
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 took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
2 Kings 23:23 Old Testament, KJV
But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.
2 Kings 23:24 Old Testament, KJV
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 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.
2 Kings 23:28 Old Testament, KJV
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?
2 Kings 23:29 Old Testament, KJV
In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
2 Kings 23:30 Old Testament, KJV
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.
2 Kings 23:34 Old Testament, KJV
And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.
1 Chronicles 3:15 Old Testament, KJV
And the sons of Josiah were, the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.
2 Chronicles 33:25 Old Testament, KJV
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.
2 Chronicles 34:1 Old Testament, KJV
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
2 Chronicles 34:33 Old Testament, KJV
And Josiah 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.
2 Chronicles 35:1 Old Testament, KJV
Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
2 Chronicles 35:7 Old Testament, KJV
And Josiah 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.
2 Chronicles 35:16 Old Testament, KJV
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.
2 Chronicles 35:18 Old Testament, KJV
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 kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 35:19 Old Testament, KJV
In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.
2 Chronicles 35:20 Old Testament, KJV
After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.
2 Chronicles 35:22 Old Testament, KJV
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 Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
2 Chronicles 35:23 Old Testament, KJV
And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.
2 Chronicles 35:24 Old Testament, KJV
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.
2 Chronicles 35:25 Old Testament, KJV
And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
2 Chronicles 35:26 Old Testament, KJV
Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to that which was written in the law of the LORD,
2 Chronicles 36:1 Old Testament, KJV
Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 1:2 Old Testament, KJV
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 reign.
Jeremiah 1:3 Old Testament, KJV
It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
Jeremiah 3:6 Old Testament, KJV
The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah 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.
Jeremiah 22:11 Old Testament, KJV
For thus saith the LORD touching Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father, which went forth out of this place; He shall not return thither any more:
Jeremiah 22:18 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah 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!
Jeremiah 25:1 Old Testament, KJV
The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;
Jeremiah 25:3 Old Testament, KJV
From the thirteenth year of Josiah 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.
Jeremiah 26:1 Old Testament, KJV
In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word from the LORD, saying,
Jeremiah 27:1 Old Testament, KJV
In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
Jeremiah 35:1 Old Testament, KJV
The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,
Jeremiah 36:1 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
Jeremiah 36:2 Old Testament, KJV
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, even unto this day.
Jeremiah 36:9 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah 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.
Jeremiah 37:1 Old Testament, KJV
And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.
Jeremiah 45:1 Old Testament, KJV
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 king of Judah, saying,
Jeremiah 46:2 Old Testament, KJV
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 king of Judah.
Zephaniah 1:1 Old Testament, KJV
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 the son of Amon, king of Judah.
Zechariah 6:10 Old Testament, KJV
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 the son of Zephaniah;

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2977, grouped by book.

1 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Kings 12 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 2 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 15 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 16 usages, Old Testament
Zephaniah 1 usage, Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H2977 FAQ

What does yoshiah (יֹאשִׁיָּה) mean?

Yoshiah (Strong's H2977) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "Josiah". Yo'shiyah (yo-shee-yaw') (or {yo-she-yaw'-hoo}) n/p. 1. founded of Jah 2. Joshijah, the name of two Israelites

How many times is yoshiah (יֹאשִׁיָּה) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 48 linked usages for Strong's H2977 across 7 books.

Where can I study yoshiah (יֹאשִׁיָּה) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2977 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate yoshiah (יֹאשִׁיָּה)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as name, same, and found. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.