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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 1 / 12 (Jos 10:1–1Ki 8:1)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:1 - Now when it came to the ears of Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, that Joshua had taken Ai, and had given it up to the curse (for as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he had done to Ai and its king); and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living among them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:3 - So Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, sent to Hoham, king of Hebron, and to Piram, king of Jarmuth, and to Japhia, king of Lachish, and to Debir, king of Eglon, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:5 - So the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, were banded together, and went up with all their armies and took up their position before Gibeon and made war against it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:23 - And they did so, and made those five kings come out of the hole to him, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:10 - The king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:8 - Then the line goes up by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the south side of the Jebusite (which is Jerusalem): then up to the top of the mountain in front of the valley of Hinnom to the west, which is at the farthest point of the valley of Rephaim on the north:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:63 - And as for the Jebusites living in Jerusalem, the children of Judah were unable to make them go out; but the Jebusites are living with the children of Judah at Jerusalem, to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:28 - And Zela, Eleph and the Jebusite (which is Jerusalem), Gibeath and Kiriath; fourteen towns with their unwalled places. This is the heritage of the children of Benjamin by their families.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:7 - And Adoni-zedek said, Seventy kings, whose thumbs and great toes had been cut off, got broken meat under my table: as I have done, so has God done to me in full. And they took him to Jerusalem, and he came to his end there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:8 - Then the children of Judah made an attack on Jerusalem, and took it, burning down the town after they had put its people to the sword without mercy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:21 - And the children of Judah did not make the Jebusites who were living in Jerusalem go out; the Jebusites are still living with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:10 - But the man would not be kept there that night, and he got up and went away and came opposite to Jebus (which is Jerusalem); and he had with him the two asses, ready for travelling, and his woman.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:54 - And David took the head of the Philistine to Jerusalem, but the metal war-dress and the arms he put in his tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:5 - Ruling over Judah in Hebron for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem, over all Israel and Judah, for thirty-three years.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:6 - And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the people of the land: and they said to David, You will not come in here, but the blind and the feeble-footed will keep you out; for they said, David will not be able to come in here.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:13 - And David took more women and wives in Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron: and he had more sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:14 - These are the names of those whose birth took place in Jerusalem: Shammua and Shobab and Nathan and Solomon

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:7 - And David took their gold body-covers from the servants of Hadadezer and took them to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:13 - So Mephibosheth went on living in Jerusalem; for he took all his meals at the king's table; and he had not the use of his feet.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:14 - And when the children of Ammon saw the flight of the Aramaeans, they themselves went in flight from Abishai, and came into the town. So Joab went back from fighting the children of Ammon and came to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:1 - Now in the spring, at the time when kings go out to war, David sent Joab and his servants and all Israel with him; and they made waste the land of the children of Ammon, and took up their position before Rabbah, shutting it in. But David was still at Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:12 - And David said to Uriah, Be here today, and after that I will let you go. So Uriah was in Jerusalem that day and the day after.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:31 - And he took the people out of the town and put them to work with wood-cutting instruments, and iron grain-crushers, and iron axes, and at brick-making: this he did to all the towns of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people went back to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:23 - So Joab got up and went to Geshur and came back again to Jerusalem with Absalom.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:28 - For two full years Absalom was living in Jerusalem without ever seeing the face of the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:8 - For while I was living in Geshur in Aram, your servant made an oath, saying, If ever the Lord lets me come back to Jerusalem, I will give him worship in Hebron.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:11 - And with Absalom, at his request, went two hundred men from Jerusalem, who were completely unconscious of his designs.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:14 - And David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, Come, let us go in flight, or not one of us will be safe from Absalom: let us go without loss of time, or he will overtake us quickly and send evil on us, and put the town to the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:29 - So Zadok and Abiathar took the ark of God back to Jerusalem, and did not go away from there.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:37

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:37 - So Hushai, David's friend, went into the town, and Absalom came to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:3 - And the king said, And where is your master's son? And Ziba said, He is still at Jerusalem: for he said, Today Israel will give back to me the kingdom of my father.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:15 - And Absalom and the men of Israel came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel was with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:20 - And Absalom's servants came to the woman at the house and said, Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said to them, They have gone from here to the stream. And after searching for them, and seeing nothing of them, they went back to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:19 - And said to him, Let me not be judged as a sinner in your eyes, O my lord, and do not keep in mind the wrong I did on the day when my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, or take it to heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:25 - Now when he had come from Jerusalem to see the king, the king said to him, Why did you not come with me, Mephibosheth?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:33 - And the king said to Barzillai, Come over with me, and I will take care of you in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:34 - And Barzillai said to the king, How much of my life is still before me, for me to go up to Jerusalem with the king?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:2 - So all the men of Israel, turning away from David, went after Sheba, the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah were true to their king, going with him from Jordan as far as Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:3 - And David came to his house at Jerusalem: and the king took the ten women to whom he had given the care of the house, and had them shut up, and gave them the necessaries of life, but did not go near them. So they were shut up till the day of their death, living as widows.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:7 - So there went after Abishai, Joab and the Cherethites and the Pelethites and all the fighting-men; they went out of Jerusalem to overtake Sheba, the son of Bichri.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:22 - Then the woman in her wisdom had talk with all the town. And they had Sheba's head cut off and sent out to Joab. And he had the horn sounded, and sent them all away from the town, every man to his tent. And Joab went back to Jerusalem to the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:8 - So after going through all the land in every direction, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:16 - And when the hand of the angel was stretched out in the direction of Jerusalem, for its destruction, the Lord had regret for the evil, and said to the angel who was sending destruction on the people, It is enough; do no more. And the angel of the Lord was by the grain-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:11 - David was king over Israel for forty years: for seven years he was king in Hebron and for thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:36 - Then the king sent for Shimei, and said to him, Make a house for yourself in Jerusalem and keep there and go to no other place.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:38 - And Shimei said to the king, Very well! as my lord the king has said, so will your servant do. And for a long time Shimei went on living in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:41

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:41 - And news was given to Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and had come back again.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:1 - Solomon became the son-in-law of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter as his wife, keeping her in the town of David, till the house he was building for himself, and the house of the Lord and the wall round Jerusalem, were complete.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:15 - And Solomon, awakening, saw that it was a dream; then he came to Jerusalem, where he went before the ark of the agreement of the Lord, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings; and he made a feast for all his servants.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:1 - Then Solomon sent for all the responsible men of Israel, and all the chiefs of the tribes, and the heads of families of the children of Israel, to come to him in Jerusalem to take the ark of the Lord's agreement up out of the town of David, which is Zion.

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