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Lexicon :: Strong's H3389 - yᵊrûšālam

Aa
יְרוּשָׁלַם
Transliteration
yᵊrûšālam
Pronunciation
yer-oo-shaw-lah'-im
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
A dual (in allusion to its two main hills [the true pointing, at least of the former reading, seems to be that of יְרוּשְׁלֵם (H3390)]), probably from (the passive participle of) יָרָה (H3384) and שָׁלַם (H7999)
Strong’s Definitions

יְרוּשָׁלִַ͏ם Yᵉrûwshâlaim, yer-oo-shaw-lah'-im; rarely יְרוּשָׁלַיִם Yᵉrûwshâlayim; a dual (in allusion to its two main hills (the true pointing, at least of the former reading, seems to be that of H3390)); probably from (the passive participle of) H3384 and H7999; founded peaceful; Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine:—Jerusalem.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 643x

The KJV translates Strong's H3389 in the following manner: Jerusalem (643x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 643x
The KJV translates Strong's H3389 in the following manner: Jerusalem (643x).

  1. Jerusalem = "teaching of peace"

    1. the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יְרוּשָׁלִַ͏ם Yᵉrûwshâlaim, yer-oo-shaw-lah'-im; rarely יְרוּשָׁלַיִם Yᵉrûwshâlayim; a dual (in allusion to its two main hills (the true pointing, at least of the former reading, seems to be that of H3390)); probably from (the passive participle of) H3384 and H7999; founded peaceful; Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine:—Jerusalem.
STRONGS H3389: Abbreviations
יֲרוּשָׁלַ֫םִ, יְרוּשָׁלַ֫יִם 644 proper name, of a location Jerusalem (in Assyrian Urusalim, Tel Amarna, ZimZA, 1891, 252, 254; Ursalimmu, COTGlossary; Greek Version of the LXX Ιερουσαλημ; √ and meaning dubious; Rel Ew and others derive from יְרוּשׁ שׁלם possession of peace (or Salem's possession); Thes and others from יָרָה, i.e. יְרוּ + שָׁלֵם a foundation of peace; GrillZAW, 1884, 134 ff. foundation of Shalem (Shalem = God of peace, = י׳); but name not certainly Hebrew; according to SayceAcad. Feb. 7, 1891, 138; Higher Crit. 176 (opposed by ZimZA. 1891, 263), JastrJBL xi, 1892, 185 = Uru (city) + Salim, proper name, of divinity); — usually יְרוּשָׁלַ֫םִ (Qr perpetuum), Joshua 10:10 +; יְרוּשָׁלָ֑םִ 1 Samuel 17:54 +; ־לַ֫יִם + 5 times according to Masora (see FrensdorffMass. Magna, 293), namely Jeremiah 26:18; 1 Chronicles 3:5; 2 Chronicles 25:1; 32:9 (with ה locative), Esther 2:6, (but לָ֑֫םִ - 1 Chronicles 3:5 van d. H Baer), so Maccabean coins, LevyGeschichte. d. jüd. Münz. 42 f.; with ה locative יְרוּשָׁלַ֫מֳה 1 Kings 10:2; Isaiah 36:2; Ezekiel 8:3; (־לַ֫יְמָה 2 Chronicles 32:9 above); ־לָ֑מֳה 2 Kings 9:28; with prefixes: בִּירו׳ 2 Samuel 9:13 +; לִירו׳ 2 Kings 18:22 +; מִירו׳ 2 Samuel 15:11 +; וִירו׳ 2 Kings 23:1 +; — Jerusalem, renowned as capital of all Israel, afterwards of southern kingdom, seat of central worship in temple, first named as city of Canaanite Adoni-Ṣedek † Joshua 10:1, 3, 5, 23 (all J E), compare Joshua 12:10 (D); inhabited by Jebusites Joshua 15:63 (twice in verse) (P), Judges 1:21 (twice in verse), compare Judges 1:7 (Adoni-Bezek); identification with יְבוּס Judges 19:10, and הַיְבוּסִי (which see) Joshua 15:8; Joshua 18:28 (both P); captured by Judah Judges 1:8; first named in connection with David 1 Samuel 17:54†; taken possession of by David as king 2 Samuel 5:6; David's royal seat 2 Samuel 5:5; 2 Samuel 5:13; 2 Samuel 5:14; 2 Samuel 8:7; 2 Samuel 11:1 +; it remained the capital until taken by Nebuchadrezzar, B.C. 588, 2 Kings 25:1 +; it became the chief home of the returned exiles Ezra 1:11; Ezra 2:11; Nehemiah 2:11, 17 +; mentioned Samuel + 31 times, Kings + 92 times, Chronicles + 151 times, Ezra + 25 times, Nehemiah + 38 times, Isaiah1 + 27 times, Isaiah2,3 + 22 times, Jeremiah + 107 times, Ezekiel + 26 times, Zechariah + 41 times, etc. — See also proper name, of a location יְבוּס, שָׁלֵם.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H3390.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Joshua

10:1; 10:3; 10:5; 10:10; 10:23; 12:10; 15:8; 15:63; 18:28

Judges

1:7; 1:8; 1:21; 19:10

1 Samuel

17:54; 17:54

2 Samuel

5:5; 5:6; 5:13; 5:14; 8:7; 9:13; 11:1; 15:11

1 Kings

10:2

2 Kings

9:28; 18:22; 23:1; 25:1

1 Chronicles

3:5; 3:5

2 Chronicles

25:1; 32:9; 32:9

Ezra

1:11; 2:11

Nehemiah

2:11; 2:17

Esther

2:6

Isaiah

36:2

Jeremiah

26:18

Ezekiel

8:3

H3389

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Strong's Number H3389 matches the Hebrew יְרוּשָׁלַם (yᵊrûšālam),
which occurs 643 times in 600 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 6 / 12 (2Ch 34:22–Neh 3:12)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:22 - And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem H3389 in the college:) and they spake to her to that effect.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:29 - Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:30 - And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, H3389 and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:32 - And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem H3389 and Benjamin to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem H3389 did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:1 - Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: H3389 and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:18 - And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:24 - His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, H3389 and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem H3389 mourned for Josiah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:1 - Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:2 - Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:3 - And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, H3389 and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:4 - And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, H3389 and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:5 - Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: H3389 and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:9 - Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: H3389 and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:10 - And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:11 - Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:14 - Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:19 - And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, H3389 and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:23 - Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, H3389 which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:2 - Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, H3389 which is in Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:3 - Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, H3389 which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:4 - And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:5 - Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:7 - Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, H3389 and had put them in the house of his gods;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:11 - All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:1 - Now these are the children of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and came again unto Jerusalem H3389 and Judah, every one unto his city;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:68

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:68 - And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the LORD which is at Jerusalem, H3389 offered freely for the house of God to set it up in his place:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:1 - And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:8 - Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, H3389 in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; H3389 and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:6 - And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they unto him an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:7 - And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, H3389 in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:8 - And he came to Jerusalem H3389 in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:9 - For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, H3389 according to the good hand of his God upon him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:27 - Blessed be the LORD God of our fathers, which hath put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem: H3389

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:29 - Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, H3389 in the chambers of the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:30 - So took the priests and the Levites the weight of the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem H3389 unto the house of our God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:31 - Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: H3389 and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:32

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:32 - And we came to Jerusalem, H3389 and abode there three days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:9 - For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:7 - And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem H3389 unto all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together unto Jerusalem; H3389

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:9 - Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem H3389 within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:2 - That Hanani, one of my brethren, came, he and certain men of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, which were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:3 - And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem H3389 also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:11 - So I came to Jerusalem, H3389 and was there three days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:12 - And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: H3389 neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:13 - And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, H3389 which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:17 - Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem H3389 lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, H3389 that we be no more a reproach.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:20 - Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:8 - Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths. Next unto him also repaired Hananiah the son of one of the apothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem H3389 unto the broad wall.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:9 - And next unto them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:12 - And next unto him repaired Shallum the son of Halohesh, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem, H3389 he and his daughters.

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