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Lexicon :: Strong's H3389 - yᵊrûšālam

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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 8 / 12 (Sng 3:10–Isa 66:10)

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:10 - He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:8 - I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, H3389 if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:16 - His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:4 - Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, H3389 terrible as an army with banners.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:4 - I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, H3389 that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:1 - The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem H3389 in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:1 - The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:3 - And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:1 - For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem H3389 and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:8 - For Jerusalem H3389 is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:3 - And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, H3389 shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem: H3389

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:4 - When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem H3389 from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:3 - And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, H3389 and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:1 - And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem H3389 to war against it, but could not prevail against it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:14 - And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:10 - As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem H3389 and of Samaria;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:11 - Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem H3389 and her idols?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:12 - Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, H3389 I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:32

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:32 - As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:10 - And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, H3389 and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:21 - And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, H3389 and to the house of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:23 - Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, H3389 and before his ancients gloriously.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:13 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:14 - Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:19 - For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: H3389 thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:5 - As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; H3389 defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:9 - And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:20 - Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem H3389 a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:2 - And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem H3389 unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:7 - But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, H3389 Ye shall worship before this altar?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:20 - Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem H3389 out of my hand?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:10 - Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem H3389 shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:22 - This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem H3389 hath shaken her head at thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:32

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:32 - For out of Jerusalem H3389 shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:2 - Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, H3389 and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:9 - O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, H3389 that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:27

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:27 - The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem H3389 one that bringeth good tidings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:26 - That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, H3389 Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:28

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:28 - That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, H3389 Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:17 - Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, H3389 which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:1 - Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, H3389 the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:2 - Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: H3389 loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:9 - Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: H3389 for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:1 - For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's H3389 sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:6 - I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, H3389 which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:7 - And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem H3389 a praise in the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:10 - Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem H3389 a desolation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:18 - But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem H3389 a rejoicing, and her people a joy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:19 - And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, H3389 and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:10 - Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, H3389 and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:

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