Person

Josiah

Yoshiyyahu

יֹאשִׁיָּהוּ

Yahweh supports.

Josiah reforms Judah by the book of the Torah found in the temple. He dies at Megiddo. The line continues toward the exile.

View Line of Christ

Matthew and Luke both frame a genealogy around Joseph, yet the names differ after David (Solomon in Matthew, Nathan in Luke). Scripture does not explain the difference. Common theories: (1) Matthew gives the legal/royal line and Luke another kinship line (blood, adoption, or levirate), both tied to Joseph; (2) one list is Joseph’s and Luke’s is Mary’s, with Joseph named because Yahshua was “as was supposed” his son (Luke 3:23)—a reading Luke never states outright; (3) both are Joseph’s by different reckonings (for example legal father and biological father). The chains below follow each Gospel as written.

Line of Christ (Matthew)

From Adam to Yahshua. Genesis carries the line to Abraham; Matthew’s genealogy carries it from Abraham to Yahshua through David and Solomon, ending at Joseph the husband of Mary.

Line of Christ (Luke)

Luke 3:23–38 as written: from Yahshua, “the son (as was supposed) of Joseph,” back through Heli and Nathan son of David to Adam. The names after David differ from Matthew.

Strong’s

Strong’s dictionaries compiled by Open Scriptures, used under CC-BY-SA 4.0.

יֹאשִׁיָּה H2977

Yôʼshîyâh · yo-shee-yaw'

Joshijah, the name of two Israelites

or יֹאשִׁיָּהוּ; from the same root as H803 (אֲשׁוּיָה) and H3050 (יָהּ); founded of Jah;

KJV glosses: Josiah.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

Francis Brown, S. R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906). Public-domain digital text.

יאֹשִׁיָּ֫הוּ H2977

Biblical Hebrew

יאֹשִׁיָּ֫הוּ, יאֹשִׁיָּה proper name, masculine (׳י supporteth) 1. יאֹשִׁיָּהוּ king of Judah, son of Amon 1Kgs 13:2; 2Kgs 21:24; 2Kgs 21:26 + 11 t. Kings, + 19 t. Chronicles, + 17 t. Jeremiah + Zeph 1:1 also יאֹו֯שִׁיָּהוּ Jer 27:1.

2. יאֹשִׁיָּה a returned exile Zech 6:10.

אִשָּׁה see below III. אנשׁ.