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Lexicon :: Strong's H2983 - yᵊḇûsî

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יְבוּסִי
Transliteration
yᵊḇûsî
Pronunciation
yeb-oo-see'
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Part of Speech
masculine patrial noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

יְבוּסִי Yᵉbûwçîy, yeb-oo-see'; patrial from H2982; a Jebusite or inhabitant of Jebus:—Jebusite(-s).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 41x

The KJV translates Strong's H2983 in the following manner: Jebusite (41x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 41x
The KJV translates Strong's H2983 in the following manner: Jebusite (41x).

  1. Jebusite = "descendants of Jebus"

    1. descendants of the 3rd son of Canaan who lived in or around the site of Jebus, the early name for Jerusalem

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יְבוּסִי Yᵉbûwçîy, yeb-oo-see'; patrial from H2982; a Jebusite or inhabitant of Jebus:—Jebusite(-s).
STRONGS H2983: Abbreviations
† יְבוּסִי, יְבֻסִי
1. adjective, of a people Jebusite, Jebusites, singular אורנה הַיְבֻסִי 2 Samuel 24:16, 18 compare 1 Chronicles 21:15, 18, 28; 2 Chronicles 3:1; as substantive a Jebusite Zechariah 9:7; usually with article הַי׳ collective the Jebusites, in historical statement Genesis 10:16 (J) = 1 Chronicles 1:14; Numbers 13:29 (E) Joshua 9:1; Joshua 11:3; Joshua 12:8; Joshua 24:11 (all D) Judges 3:5; Nehemiah 9:8, all in list of Canaanitish peoples; so also 1 Kings 9:20 2 Chronicles 8:7, where remnant of these peoples referred to; also Ezra 9:1, which seems to shew that this list had become a standing expression for early inhabitants; compare further in promises (J E D) Genesis 15:21; Exodus 3:8, 17; Exodus 13:5; Exodus 23:23; Exodus 33:2; Exodus 34:11; Deuteronomy 7:1; Deuteronomy 20:17; Joshua 3:10; specifically defined as inhabitants of Jebus-Jerusalem Joshua 15:63 (twice in verse) (J) Judges 1:21 (twice in verse); 2 Samuel 5:6, 8 (on which compare Dr) 1 Chronicles 11:4 (called also יוֺשֵׁב הָאָרֶץ 2 Samuel 5:6 & ישְׁבֵי הָאָרֶץ 1 Chronicles 11:4); see also עִיר הַיְבוּסִי הַזּאֹת Judges 19:11; whence
2. Jerusalem, Hexateuch only P, Joshua 15:8 גֵּי בֶןהִֿנֹּם אֶלכֶּֿתֶף היבוסי מִנֶּגֶב הִיא יְרוּשָׁלָ֑םִ, compare Joshua 18:16, 28 וְהַיְבוּסִי הִיא יְרוּשָׁלַםִ. — compare כנען.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

10:16; 15:21

Exodus

3:8; 3:17; 13:5; 23:23; 33:2; 34:11

Numbers

13:29

Deuteronomy

7:1; 20:17

Joshua

3:10; 9:1; 11:3; 12:8; 15:8; 15:63; 18:16; 18:28; 24:11

Judges

1:21; 3:5; 19:11

2 Samuel

5:6; 5:6; 5:8; 24:16; 24:18

1 Kings

9:20

1 Chronicles

1:14; 11:4; 11:4; 21:15; 21:18; 21:28

2 Chronicles

3:1; 8:7

Ezra

9:1

Nehemiah

9:8

Zechariah

9:7

H2983

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2983 matches the Hebrew יְבוּסִי (yᵊḇûsî),
which occurs 41 times in 39 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:16 - and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:21 - the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:8 - and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:17 - and I promise that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey.”’

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:5 - And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you shall keep this service in this month.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:23 - “When my angel goes before you and brings you to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, and I blot them out,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 33:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:2 - I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:11 - “Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:29 - The Amalekites dwell in the land of the Negeb. The Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill country. And the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:1 - “When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:17 - but you shall devote them to complete destruction,[fn] the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the LORD your God has commanded,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:10 - And Joshua said, “Here is how you shall know that the living God is among you and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:1 - As soon as all the kings who were beyond the Jordan in the hill country and in the lowland all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, heard of this,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:3 - to the Canaanites in the east and the west, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, and the Jebusites in the hill country, and the Hivites under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:8 - in the hill country, in the lowland, in the Arabah, in the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negeb, the land of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites):

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:8 - Then the boundary goes up by the Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the southern shoulder of the Jebusite (that is, Jerusalem). And the boundary goes up to the top of the mountain that lies over against the Valley of Hinnom, on the west, at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 15:63

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:63 - But the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the people of Judah could not drive out, so the Jebusites dwell with the people of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 18:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:16 - Then the boundary goes down to the border of the mountain that overlooks the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, which is at the north end of the Valley of Rephaim. And it then goes down the Valley of Hinnom, south of the shoulder of the Jebusites, and downward to En-rogel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 18:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:28 - Zela, Haeleph, Jebus[fn] (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah[fn] and Kiriath-jearim[fn]—fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the people of Benjamin according to its clans.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:11 - And you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho, and the leaders of Jericho fought against you, and also the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. And I gave them into your hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:21 - But the people of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem, so the Jebusites have lived with the people of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:5 - So the people of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:11 - When they were near Jebus, the day was nearly over, and the servant said to his master, “Come now, let us turn aside to this city of the Jebusites and spend the night in it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 5:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:6 - And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who said to David, “You will not come in here, but the blind and the lame will ward you off”—thinking, “David cannot come in here.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 5:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:8 - And David said on that day, “Whoever would strike the Jebusites, let him get up the water shaft to attack ‘the lame and the blind,’ who are hated by David’s soul.” Therefore it is said, “The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:16 - And when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was working destruction among the people, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” And the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:18 - And Gad came that day to David and said to him, “Go up, raise an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:20 - All the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the people of Israel—

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 1:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:14 - and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 11:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:4 - And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, that is, Jebus, where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 11:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:6 - David said, “Whoever strikes the Jebusites first shall be chief and commander.” And Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, so he became chief.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 21:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:15 - And God sent the angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, but as he was about to destroy it, the LORD saw, and he relented from the calamity. And he said to the angel who was working destruction, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” And the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 21:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:18 - Now the angel of the LORD had commanded Gad to say to David that David should go up and raise an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 21:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:28 - At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 3:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:1 - Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD[fn] had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 8:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:7 - All the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel,

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:1 - After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:8 - You found his heart faithful before you, and made with him the covenant to give to his offspring the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite. And you have kept your promise, for you are righteous.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:7 - I will take away its blood from its mouth,
and its abominations from between its teeth;
it too shall be a remnant for our God;
it shall be like a clan in Judah,
and Ekron shall be like the Jebusites.
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