Strong H29772 sensesיֹאשִׁיָּ֫הוּ

Meaning of the name

The 2 senses of Strong H2977

The lexicon tells 2 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H2977 appears in 48 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

1. King of Judah known for his religious reformsH2977G47 verses · 6 books
2. One who provided silver and gold for a crownH2977H1 verse · Zechariah

General definition

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

• josiah48
• room1

First verses

1. 1 Kings 13:2
   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. 2 Kings 21:24
   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.
3. 2 Kings 21:26
   And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
4. 2 Kings 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 Boscath.
5. 2 Kings 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 the Lord, saying,
6. 2 Kings 23:16
   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.
7. 2 Kings 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 the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth–el.
8. 2 Kings 23:23
   But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the Lord in Jerusalem.
9. 2 Kings 23:24
   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.
10. 2 Kings 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?
11. 2 Kings 23:29
    In his days Pharaoh–nechoh 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.
12. 2 Kings 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.
13. 2 Kings 23:34
    And Pharaoh–nechoh 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.
14. 1 Chronicles 3:14
    Amon his son, Josiah his son.
15. 1 Chronicles 3:15
    And the sons of Josiah were, the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.
16. 2 Chronicles 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.
17. 2 Chronicles 34:1
    Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
18. 2 Chronicles 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 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.
19. 2 Chronicles 35:1
    Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the Lord in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
20. 2 Chronicles 35:7
    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.