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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 10 / 12 (Jer 25:18–Jer 52:29)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:18 - Jerusalem H3389 and the cities of Judah and its kings and its princes, to make them a ruin, a horror, a hissing and a curse, as it is this day;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:18 - “[fn]Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Thus the LORD of hosts has said,
“Zion will be plowed as a field,
And Jerusalem H3389 will become ruins,
And the mountain of the house as the [fn]high places of a forest.”’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:3 - and send [fn]word to the king of Edom, to the king of Moab, to the king of the sons of Ammon, to the king of Tyre and to the king of Sidon [fn]by the messengers who come to Jerusalem H3389 to Zedekiah king of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:18 - “But if they are prophets, and if the word of the LORD is with them, let them now entreat the LORD of hosts that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, in the house of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem H3389 may not go to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:20 - which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he carried into exile Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem H3389 to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:21 - “Yes, thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of the LORD and in the house of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem, H3389

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:1 - Now these are the words of the letter which Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem H3389 to the rest of the elders of the exile, the priests, the prophets and all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem H3389 to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:2 - (This was after King Jeconiah and the queen mother, the court officials, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, H3389 the craftsmen and the smiths had departed from Jerusalem.) H3389

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:4 - “Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem H3389 to Babylon,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:20 - “You, therefore, hear the word of the LORD, all you exiles, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem H3389 to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:25 - “Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who are in Jerusalem, H3389 and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:2 - Now at that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, H3389 and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the house of the king of Judah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:32 - because of all the evil of the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah which they have done to provoke Me to anger—they, their kings, their leaders, their priests, their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:44

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:44 - ‘Men will buy fields for money, [fn]sign and seal deeds, and call in witnesses in the land of Benjamin, in the environs of Jerusalem, H3389 in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland and in the cities of the [fn]Negev; for I will restore their [fn]fortunes,’ declares the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:10 - “Thus says the LORD, ‘Yet again there will be heard in this place, of which you say, “It is a waste, without man and without beast,” that is, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem H3389 that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:13 - ‘In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, in the cities of the Negev, in the land of Benjamin, in the environs of Jerusalem H3389 and in the cities of Judah, the flocks will again pass under the hands of the one who numbers them,’ says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:16 - ‘In those days Judah will be saved and Jerusalem H3389 will dwell in safety; and this is the name by which she will be called: the LORD is our righteousness.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:1 - The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army, with all the kingdoms of the earth that were under his dominion and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem H3389 and against all its cities, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:6 - Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem H3389

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:7 - when the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem H3389 and against all the remaining cities of Judah, that is, Lachish and Azekah, for they alone remained as fortified cities among the cities of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:8 - The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were in Jerusalem H3389 to proclaim [fn]release to them:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:19 - the officials of Judah and the officials of Jerusalem, H3389 the court officers and the priests and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf—

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:11 - “But when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against the land, we said, ‘Come and let us go to Jerusalem H3389 before the army of the Chaldeans and before the army of the Arameans.’ So we have dwelt in Jerusalem.” H3389

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:13 - “Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Go and say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, H3389 “Will you not receive instruction by listening to My words?” declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:17 - “Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I am bringing on Judah and on all the inhabitants of Jerusalem H3389 all the disaster that I have pronounced against them; because I spoke to them but they did not listen, and I have called them but they did not answer.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:9 - Now in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem H3389 and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem H3389 proclaimed a fast before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:31 - “I will also punish him and his [fn]descendants and his servants for their iniquity, and I will bring on them and the inhabitants of Jerusalem H3389 and the men of Judah all the calamity that I have declared to them—but they did not listen.”’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:5 - Meanwhile, Pharaoh’s army had set out from Egypt; and when the Chaldeans who had been besieging Jerusalem H3389 heard the report about them, they lifted the siege from Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:11 - Now it happened when the army of the Chaldeans had lifted the siege from Jerusalem H3389 because of Pharaoh’s army,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:12 - that Jeremiah went out from Jerusalem H3389 to go to the land of Benjamin in order to take [fn]possession of some property there among the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:28 - So Jeremiah stayed in the court of the guardhouse until the day that Jerusalem H3389 was captured.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:1 - [fn]Now when Jerusalem H3389 was captured [fn]in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came to Jerusalem H3389 and laid siege to it;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:8 - The Chaldeans also burned with fire the king’s palace and the houses of the people, and they broke down the walls of Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:1 - The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan captain of the bodyguard had released him from Ramah, when he had taken him bound in chains among all the exiles of Jerusalem H3389 and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:18 - For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, “As My anger and wrath have been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, H3389 so My wrath will be poured out on you when you enter Egypt. And you will become a curse, an object of horror, an imprecation and a reproach; and you will see this place no more.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:2 - “Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘You yourselves have seen all the calamity that I have brought on Jerusalem H3389 and all the cities of Judah; and behold, this day they are in ruins and no one lives in them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:6 - ‘Therefore My wrath and My anger were poured out and burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, H3389 so they have become a ruin and a desolation as it is this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:9 - “Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? H3389

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:13 - ‘And I will punish those who live in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, H3389 with the sword, with famine and with pestilence.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:17 - “But rather we will certainly carry out every word that has proceeded from our mouths, [fn]by burning [fn]sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, just as we ourselves, our forefathers, our kings and our princes did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; H3389 for then we had plenty of [fn]food and were well off and saw no [fn]misfortune.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:21 - “As for the [fn]smoking sacrifices that you burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, H3389 you and your forefathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them and did not all this come into His [fn]mind?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:35 - “May the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,”
The [fn]inhabitant of Zion will say;
And, “May my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,”
Jerusalem H3389 will say.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:50

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:50 - You who have escaped the sword,
Depart! Do not stay!
Remember the LORD from afar,
And let Jerusalem H3389 [fn]come to your mind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:1 - Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; H3389 and his mother’s name was [fn]Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:3 - For through the anger of the LORD this came about in Jerusalem H3389 and Judah until He cast them out from His presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:4 - Now it came about in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, H3389 camped against it and built a siege wall all around [fn]it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:12 - Now on the tenth day of the fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, [fn]who was in the service of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:13 - He burned the house of the LORD, the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; H3389 even every large house he burned with fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:14 - So all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:29 - in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar 832 persons from Jerusalem; H3389

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