yoshiya · Josiah

What it means

yoshiya (יֹאשִׁיָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Josiah”.

A name that, according to the lexicon, means "founded by Yah." He is the king of Judah announced by name in 1 Kings 13:2, who reigned about three hundred years later (2 Kings 22–23); a man in Zechariah 6:10 is also called this.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Where it appears

• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×13
• 1 Chronicles×2
• 2 Chronicles×17
• Jeremiah×18
• Zephaniah×1
• Zechariah×1

• 1 Kings 13:2

  And he cried out against the altar by the word of YHWH, and said, “Altar, altar! Thus says YHWH: ‘Look, a son will be born to the house of David, Josiah will be his name; and he will sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who offer up in smoke on you, and human bones they will burn on you.’”

• 2 Kings 21:24

  But the people of the land struck all those who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made king Josiah his son in his place.

• 2 Kings 21:26

  They buried him in his grave in the garden of Uzzah; and Josiah his son reigned in his place.

• 2 Kings 22:1

  Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Jedidah daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.

• 2 Kings 22:3

  And it happened, in year eighteen of King Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan son of Azaliah son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of YHWH, saying,

• 2 Kings 23:16

  Josiah turned and saw the tombs that were there on the mountain; and he sent and took the bones from the tombs and burned them on the altar and made it unclean, according to the word of YHWH that the man of Elohim cried out, who had cried out these things.

• 2 Kings 23:19

  Also all the houses of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke YHWH to anger, Josiah removed; and he did to them according to all the deeds that he had done at Bethel.

• 2 Kings 23:23

  but in year eighteen of King Josiah this Passover was celebrated to YHWH in Jerusalem.

• 2 Kings 23:24

  Moreover, those who call up the dead and the spiritists, the teraphim, the idols, and all the detestable things that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah purged, in order to confirm the words of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of YHWH.

• 2 Kings 23:28

  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

  In his days Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and King Josiah went to meet him, and he put him to death at Megiddo when he saw him.

• 2 Kings 23:30

  His servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own grave. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.

• 2 Kings 23:34

  Pharaoh Neco made king Eliakim son of Josiah in place of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim; but Jehoahaz he took away, and he came to Egypt and died there.

• 1 Chronicles 3:14

  Amon, his son; Josiah, his son.

• 1 Chronicles 3:15

  And the sons of Josiah: the firstborn, Johanan; the second, Jehoiakim; the third, Zedekiah; the fourth, Shallum.

• 2 Chronicles 33:25

  But the people of the land struck all who had conspired against King Amon; and the people of the land made king Josiah his son in his place.

• 2 Chronicles 34:1

  Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 34:33

  Josiah removed all the abominations from all the lands that belonged to the sons of Israel, and made all who were present in Israel serve YHWH their Elohim. All his days they did not turn away from following YHWH, the Elohim of their fathers.

• 2 Chronicles 35:1

  Josiah celebrated in Jerusalem a Passover to YHWH, and they slaughtered the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

• 2 Chronicles 35:7

  Josiah contributed to the sons of the people flock animals, lambs and young goats, all for the Passover offerings, for all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand cattle; these were from the possessions of the king.

• 2 Chronicles 35:16

  So all the service of YHWH was prepared on that day to celebrate the Passover and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of YHWH, according to the commandment of King Josiah.

• 2 Chronicles 35:18

  No Passover like it had been celebrated in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet; and none of the kings of Israel had celebrated such a Passover as Josiah celebrated, and the priests and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 35:19

  In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah this Passover was celebrated.

• 2 Chronicles 35:20

  After all this, when Josiah had prepared the house, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight at Carchemish on the Euphrates; and Josiah went out to meet him.

• 2 Chronicles 35:22

  But Josiah did not turn his face away from him, but to fight against him he disguised himself, and did not listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of Elohim; and he came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

• 2 Chronicles 35:23

  The archers shot at King Josiah, and the king said to his servants, “Take me away, for I am badly wounded.”

• 2 Chronicles 35:24

  So his servants took him out of the chariot and put him in his second chariot, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

• 2 Chronicles 35:25

  Jeremiah chanted a dirge for Josiah; and all the male singers and the female singers have spoken of Josiah in their dirges to this day, and they made them a statute for Israel; and they are written in the Dirges.

• 2 Chronicles 35:26

  The rest of the acts of Josiah and his deeds of loyal love, according to what is written in the law of YHWH,

• 2 Chronicles 36:1

  The people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in place of his father in Jerusalem.

• Jeremiah 1:2

  to whom the word of YHWH came in the days of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign;

• Jeremiah 1:3

  and it came in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the exile of Jerusalem in the fifth month.

• Jeremiah 3:6

  And YHWH said to me in the days of King Josiah, “Have you seen what apostate Israel has done? She went up on every high mountain and under every leafy tree, and prostituted herself there.

• Jeremiah 22:11

  For thus says YHWH concerning Shallum son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned in place of Josiah his father, who went out from this place: “He will not return there again,

• Jeremiah 22:18

  Therefore, thus says YHWH concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah: “They will not lament for him, ‘Alas, my brother!’ and ‘Alas, sister!’ they will not lament for him, ‘Alas, lord!’ and ‘Alas, his majesty!’

• Jeremiah 25:1

  The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah —that was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon—

• Jeremiah 25:3

  “From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day —these twenty-three years— the word of YHWH has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, but you have not listened.

• Jeremiah 26:1

  At the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came from YHWH, saying,

• Jeremiah 27:1

  At the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from YHWH, saying,

• Jeremiah 35:1

  The word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

And 13 more times.