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יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִם

Yᵉrûwshâlaim · H3389 · Hebrew · proper noun · 643 occurrences

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Place

Meanings

  1. Jerusalem

    town, formerly referred to as Salem and Jebus; located on Mt. Zion; territory of Judah; conquered by king David, who made it the capital of his kingdom

    Examples

    Judges 1:8 Then the sons of Judah fought against Jerusalem and captured it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

    1 Samuel 17:54 And David took the Philistine’s head and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his weapons in his tent.

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

9 occurrences in 5 groups

Named alongside itApposition

15 occurrences in 8 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

21 occurrences in 13 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

27 occurrences in 19 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

8 occurrences in 6 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

327 occurrences in 9 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

160 occurrences in 45 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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Near synonyms 1 word
יְרוּשָׁלֵם Yᵉrûwshâlêm · H3390 · Jerusalem
יְרוּשָׁלֵם (Yᵉrûwshâlêm, H3390) יְרוּשָׁלֵם is a variant spelling of the same name as יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִם (Yᵉrûwshâlaim, H3389) יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִם (Hebrew/Aramaic or alternate form), referring to the same referent and interchangeable in sense.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Names of Locations003001010
Jerusalem is the capital city of Israel and Judah, the site of the temple, and one of the most frequently named locations across the Hebrew Bible.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3389. Yerushalaim or Yerushalayim יְרוּשָׁלַ֫יִם יֲרוּשָׁלַ֫םִ,644 proper name, of a…
H3389. Yerushalaim
or Yerushalayim יְרוּשָׁלַ֫יִם יֲרוּשָׁלַ֫םִ,644
proper name, of a location Jerusalem (in Assyrian Urusalim, Tel Amarna, ZimZA, 1891, 252, 254; Ursalimmu, COTGlossary; ᵐ5 Ιερουσαλημ; √ and meaning dubious; Rel Ew and others derive from שׁלם יְרוּשׁ 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), Jos 10:10 +; יְרוּשָׁלָ֑םִ 1Sa 17:54 +; לַ֫יִם-5t. according to Masora (see FrensdorffMass. Magna, 293), namely Jer 26:18; 1Ch 3:5; 2Ch 25:1; 2Ch 32:9 (with ה locative), Est 2:6, (but לָ֑֫םִ- 1Ch 3:5 van d. H Baer), so Maccabean coins, LevyGeschichte. d. jüd. Münz. 42 f.; with ה locative יְרוּשָׁלַ֫מֳה 1Ki 10:2; Isa 36:2; Eze 8:3; (לַ֫יְמָה-2Ch 32:9 above); לָ֑מֳה- 2Ki 9:28; with prefixes: ׳בִּירו 2Sa 9:13 +; ׳לִירו 2Ki 18:22 +; ׳מִירו 2Sa 15:11 +; ׳וִירו 2Ki 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-‚edek Jos 10:1, Jos 10:3, Jos 10:5, Jos 10:23 (all J E), compare Jos 12:10 (D); inhabited by Jebusites Jos 15:63 (twice in verse) (P), Jdg 1:21 (twice in verse), compare Jdg 1:7 (Adoni-Bezek); identification with יְבוּס Jdg 19:10, and הַיְבוּסִי (q. v.) Jos 15:8; Jos 18:28 (both P); captured by Judah Jdg 1:8; first named in connection with David 1Sa 17:54 ; taken possession of by David as king 2Sa 5:6; David's royal seat 2Sa 5:5; 2Sa 5:13; 2Sa 5:14; 2Sa 8:7; 2Sa 11:1 +; it remained the capital until taken by Nebuchadrezzar, B.C. 588, 2Ki 25:1 +; it became the chief home of the returned exiles Ezr 1:11; Ezr 2:11; Neh 2:11, Neh 2:17 +; mentioned Samuel 31 t., Kings 92 t., Chronicles 151 t., Ezra 25 t., Nehemiah 38 t., Isa127t., Isa2, 322t., Jeremiah 107 t., Ezekiel 26 t., Zechariah 41 t., etc. — See also proper name, of a location שָׁלֵם יְבוּס,.
ירח (√ of following; meaning dubious; according to MV Buhl = ארח, of moon as wanderer, so LagBN 46).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Names of Locations641 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

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