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iehosaphatJehoshaphat

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it
725 times in 331 works
Consistency
99.4% (725 of 729)
Reach if approved
~766 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: jehosaphat
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
729 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (725 changes in 331 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 725)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … of Iuda were the ſons of Dauid: why might not this Eccleſiaſtes bée Ezechia, IehoſaphatJehoshaphat, or ſome other of the godly kinges, before, or after them. I anſwere, that …
    With rule
    … of Iuda were the ſons of Dauid: why might not this Eccleſiaſtes bée Ezechia, IehoſaphatJehoshaphat, or ſome other of the godly kinges, before, or after them. I anſwere, that …

    George Gifford · Eight Sermons on Ecclesiastes · p. 2 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … also punished: spared, if being admonished we be humbled, as Dauid by Nathan. 2. Sam. 12. IehosaphatJehoshaphat by Iehu 2. Chron. 19. 2. because in this wee seeke not to drawe in other sinnes …
    With rule
    … also punished: spared, if being admonished we be humbled, as Dauid by Nathan. 2. Sam. 12. IehosaphatJehoshaphat by Iehu 2. Chron. 19. 2. because in this wee seeke not to drawe in other sinnes …

    Richard Greenham · Works · p. 651 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … the Lands, that were round about Iudah, so that they made no warre against IehosaphatJehoshaphat. This would free vs from feare of the traiterous Papists at home, and abroad …
    With rule
    … the Lands, that were round about Iudah, so that they made no warre against IehosaphatJehoshaphat. This would free vs from feare of the traiterous Papists at home, and abroad …

    Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 247 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Seer, and put the Lords Prophet in prison: after that he had warres. 2 Chr. 16.7.9. IehosaphatJehoshaphat, Hezekiah, and Iosuah, three worthie Kings, raigned worthily so long as they walked in …
    With rule
    … Seer, and put the Lords Prophet in prison: after that he had warres. 2 Chr. 16.7.9. IehosaphatJehoshaphat, Hezekiah, and Iosuah, three worthie Kings, raigned worthily so long as they walked in …

    Robert Horne · The Christian Governor in the Commonwealth and Private Families · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Call on mee in the time of trouble, &c. Pſal. 50.15. And precedents: Dauid, Aſa, IehoſaphatJehoshaphat, Hezechiah, when the armies of the Heathen did aſſaile them, by prayer preuailed againſt …
    With rule
    … Call on mee in the time of trouble, &c. Pſal. 50.15. And precedents: Dauid, Aſa, IehoſaphatJehoshaphat, Hezechiah, when the armies of the Heathen did aſſaile them, by prayer preuailed againſt …

    Paul Baynes · The Spiritual Armor · p. 289 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … vnto him alone. Yet did not Ioab ſcandalize David, but edified him. euen as IehoſaphatJehoshaphat edified Ahab, and Daniel Darius, ſo did Iſaacus edifie Valens, though he diſpleaſed him …
    With rule
    … vnto him alone. Yet did not Ioab ſcandalize David, but edified him. euen as IehoſaphatJehoshaphat edified Ahab, and Daniel Darius, ſo did Iſaacus edifie Valens, though he diſpleaſed him …

    Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 35 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … text. And Iuda at this time was indeed the true Israel of God, and IehosaphatJehoshaphat without any fault in the text (as some suppose) is truely called king of …
    With rule
    … text. And Iuda at this time was indeed the true Israel of God, and IehosaphatJehoshaphat without any fault in the text (as some suppose) is truely called king of …

    William Perkins · Commentary on Galatians 1-5 · p. 270 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Ramoth-Gilead, the Prophet Iehu meetes him, 2. Chr 9. 19. 2. and saith thus to him, Oh IehosaphatJehoshaphat, wilt thou helpe the wicked? wilt thou love those that hate the Lord? wrath …
    With rule
    … Ramoth-Gilead, the Prophet Iehu meetes him, 2. Chr 9. 19. 2. and saith thus to him, Oh IehosaphatJehoshaphat, wilt thou helpe the wicked? wilt thou love those that hate the Lord? wrath …

    John Preston · Sermons · p. 53 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Three Sermons A43562

  • Printed
    … temptation may be ſo great, that we may be drawne away; Then do as IEHOSAPHATJEHOSHAPHAT did, when that great Army came againſt him, cry mightily to GOD that you …
    With rule
    … temptation may be ſo great, that we may be drawne away; Then do as IEHOSAPHATJEHOSHAPHAT did, when that great Army came againſt him, cry mightily to GOD that you …

    Richard Heyrick · Three Sermons · p. 101 · Open in the reader