{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H2977",
  "lemma": "יֹאשִׁיָּה",
  "transliteration": "Yôʼshîyâh",
  "definition": "Joshijah, the name of two Israelites",
  "kjv": "Josiah.",
  "occurrences": 53,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H803",
      "lemma": "אֲשׁוּיָה",
      "transliteration": "ʼăshûwyâh",
      "meaning": "foundation",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H803"
    },
    {
      "id": "H3050",
      "lemma": "יָהּ",
      "transliteration": "Yâhh",
      "meaning": "Jah, the sacred name",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H3050"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "יֹאשִׁיָּ֫הוּ, יֹאשִׁיָּה n.pr.m. (י׳ supporteth)",
    "1. king of Judah, son of Amon",
    "2. a returned exile"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "1 Kings 13:2",
      "text": "He cried against the altar by the LORD’s word, and said, “Altar! Altar! The LORD says: ‘Behold, a son will be born to…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/13?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Kings 21:24",
      "text": "But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/21?v=24"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Kings 21:26",
      "text": "He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son reigned in his place.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/21?v=26"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Kings 22:1",
      "text": "Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/22?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Kings 22:3",
      "text": "In the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/22?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Kings 23:16",
      "text": "As Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there in the mountain; and he sent, and took the bones out of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/23?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Kings 23:19",
      "text": "All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/23?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Kings 23:23",
      "text": "but in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was kept to the LORD in Jerusalem.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/23?v=23"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Kings 23:24",
      "text": "Moreover, Josiah removed those who had familiar spirits, the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/23?v=24"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Kings 23:28",
      "text": "Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/23?v=28"
    }
  ],
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