The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

Josias

jo-si'-as (Textus Receptus, Iosias; Westcott and Hort, The New Testament in Greek Ioseias) :

(1) Greek form in the King James Version of Josiah (Mt 1:10,11; compare 1 Esdras 1; Baruch 1:8), king of Judah.

(2) In 1 Esdras 8:33 the King James Version for JESIAS (which see).

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