Josias

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Latinized form of JOSIAH used in some English versions of the Old Testament.

JOSIAH   male   Biblical, English
From the Hebrew name יֹאשִׁיָהוּ (Yoshiyahu) meaning "YAHWEH supports". In the Old Testament this is the name of a king of Judah famous for his religious reforms. He was killed fighting the Egyptians at Megiddo in the 7th century BC. In England this name came into use after the Protestant Reformation.
YAHWEH   male   Theology
A name of the Hebrew God, represented in Hebrew by the tetragrammaton ("four letters") יהוה (Yod Heh Vav Heh), which was transliterated into Roman script as Y H W H. Because it was considered blasphemous to utter the name of God, it was only written and never spoken, which resulted in the original pronunciation becoming lost. The name may have originally been derived from the old Semitic root הוה (hawah) meaning "to be" or "to become".
EQUIVALENTS
BIBLICAL GREEK: Iosias
BIBLICAL HEBREW: Yoshiyahu
BIBLICAL LATIN: Iosias
BIBLICAL: Josiah
ENGLISH: Josiah
OTHER FORMS
THEOLOGY: Yahweh