Word

Ἱερουσαλήμ

Hierousalḗm · G2419 · Greek · 76 occurrences

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Place

Meanings

  1. The proper name Jerusalem, referring to the historical capital city of Judea and the religious center of Judaism

    Examples

    Acts 1:8 but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and Samaria, and as far as the remotest part of the earth."

    Acts 10:39 "We are witnesses of all the things that He did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They also put Him to death by hanging Him on a cross.

    Luke 5:17 One day He was teaching, and there were some Pharisees and teachers of the Law sitting there who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea, and from Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was present for Him to perform healing.

  2. The eschatological or heavenly Jerusalem, referring to the city of God in its glorified, eternal state

    Examples

    Hebrews 12:22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,

    Revelation 21:2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

How it’s used In 8 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

4 occurrences in 3 groups

Named alongside itApposition

6 occurrences in 3 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

3 occurrences in 3 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

3 occurrences in 3 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

52 occurrences in 6 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

3 occurrences in 3 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 2 entries
Jerusalem93.480b
In Matthew 23:37, Jesus laments, “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who have been sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together,” naming the city directly.
Jerusalem93.480a
This lexeme's own occurrences overwhelmingly attest this proper name: “‘Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who have been sent to her!’” (Matthew 23:37).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon see Ἱεροσόλυμα.
see Ἱεροσόλυμα.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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