הוֹשַׁעְיָהHôwshaʻyâh

proper name, masculine: Yah has saved

Pronunciation: ho-shah-yaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1955

Meanings

1. a prince of Judah (Nehemiah 12:32)

2. father of Azariah or Jezaniah, a chief in time of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 42:1; Jeremiah 43:2)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 3 times in the Bible.

  • Nehemiah 12:32 Hoshaiah and half the leaders of Judah followed them,
  • Jeremiah 42:1 Then all the military leaders, including Johanan son of Kareah and Jezaniah son of Hoshaiah, and all the people, from the least to the greatest, approached
  • Jeremiah 43:2 Azariah son of Hoshaiah and Johanan son of Kareah and all the other proud men said to Jeremiah, “You lie! The Lord our God hasn’t forbidden us to go to Egypt!

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).