# H2977 יֹאשִׁיָּה

יֹאשִׁיָּה (Yôʼshîyâh), Strong’s H2977: Joshijah, the name of two Israelites KJV: Josiah.. Occurs 53 times.

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*Yôʼshîyâh* — Joshijah, the name of two Israelites

KJV: Josiah.

Built from [אֲשׁוּיָה ʼăshûwyâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H803) (foundation) + [יָהּ Yâhh](https://besorah.bible/word/H3050) (Jah, the sacred name) — means “founded of Jah”

Occurs 53 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- יֹאשִׁיָּ֫הוּ, יֹאשִׁיָּה n.pr.m. (י׳ supporteth)
- 1 king of Judah, son of Amon
- 2 a returned exile

## Where it occurs
- [1 Kings 13:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/13?v=2) — He cried against the altar by the LORD’s word, and said, “Altar! Altar! The LORD says: ‘Behold, a son will be born to…
- [2 Kings 21:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/21?v=24) — But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah…
- [2 Kings 21:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/21?v=26) — He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son reigned in his place.
- [2 Kings 22:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/22?v=1) — Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was…
- [2 Kings 22:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/22?v=3) — In the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to…
- [2 Kings 23:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/23?v=16) — As Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there in the mountain; and he sent, and took the bones out of…
- [2 Kings 23:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/23?v=19) — All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to…
- [2 Kings 23:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/23?v=23) — but in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was kept to the LORD in Jerusalem.
- [2 Kings 23:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/23?v=24) — Moreover, Josiah removed those who had familiar spirits, the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the…
- [2 Kings 23:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/23?v=28) — 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…