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# יֹאשִׁיָּהוּ

Biblical Hebrew

**Josiah** — used 52 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Josiah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b9_5d0_5e9_5b4_5c1_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יֹאשִׁיָּ֫הוּ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b9_5d0_5e9_5b4_5c1_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (י׳ supporteth) יֹאשִׁיָּהוּ king of Judah, son of Amon 1 K 13:2 2 K 21:24, 26 + 11 times K, + 19 times Ch, + 17 times Je + Zp 1:1; also יֹאו֯שִׁיָּהוּ Je 27:1. יֹאשִׁיָּה a returned exile Zc 6:10.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Josiah (26); of Josiah (24); \[was\] Josiah (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 3:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.3.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.3.14/#tree)

אָמ֥וֹן בְּנ֖וֹ יֹאשִׁיָּ֥הוּ בְנֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* \[was\].Amon son his \[was\].Josiah son his

*JPS 1917:* Amon his son, Josiah his son.

[2 Chronicles 35:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.35.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.35.19/#tree)

בִּשְׁמוֹנֶ֤ה עֶשְׂרֵה֙ שָׁנָ֔ה לְמַלְכ֖וּת יֹאשִׁיָּ֑הוּ נַעֲשָׂ֖ה הַפֶּ֥סַח הַזֶּֽה׃

*Word for word:* in eight- teen year of the.reign of.Josiah it.was.observed the passover (the) this

*JPS 1917:* In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b9_5d0_5e9_5b4_5c1_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d4_5d5_5bc/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).