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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 3 / 12 (2Ki 22:14–1Ch 28:1)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:14 - So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem H3389 in the college;) and they communed with her.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:1 - And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:2 - And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem H3389 with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:4 - And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem H3389 in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:5 - And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; H3389 them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:6 - And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, H3389 unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:9 - Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, H3389 but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:13 - And the high places that were before Jerusalem, H3389 which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:20 - And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:23 - But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24 - Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, H3389 did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:27 - And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem H3389 which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:30 - And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, H3389 and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:31 - Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. H3389 And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:33 - And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; H3389 and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:36

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:36 - Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. H3389 And his mother's name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 24:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:4 - And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem H3389 with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 24:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:8 - Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem H3389 three months. And his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:10 - At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, H3389 and the city was besieged.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 24:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:14 - And he carried away all Jerusalem, H3389 and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:15 - And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem H3389 to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:18 - Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. H3389 And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:20 - For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem H3389 and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:1 - And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, H3389 and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:8 - And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem: H3389

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:9 - And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, H3389 and every great man's house burnt he with fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:10 - And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem H3389 round about.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 3:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:4 - These six were born unto him in Hebron; and there he reigned seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem H3389 he reigned thirty and three years.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 3:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:5 - And these were born unto him in Jerusalem; H3389 Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 6:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:10 - And Johanan begat Azariah, (he it is that executed the priest's office in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem:) H3389

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 6:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:15 - And Jehozadak went into captivity, when the LORD carried away Judah and Jerusalem H3389 by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 6:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:32 - And they ministered before the dwelling place of the tabernacle of the congregation with singing, until Solomon had built the house of the LORD in Jerusalem: H3389 and then they waited on their office according to their order.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 8:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:28 - These were heads of the fathers, by their generations, chief men. These dwelt in Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 8:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:32 - And Mikloth begat Shimeah. And these also dwelt with their brethren in Jerusalem, H3389 over against them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:3 - And in Jerusalem H3389 dwelt of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim, and Manasseh;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:34 - These chief fathers of the Levites were chief throughout their generations; these dwelt at Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:38 - And Mikloth begat Shimeam. And they also dwelt with their brethren at Jerusalem, H3389 over against their brethren.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 11:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:4 - And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, H3389 which is Jebus; where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 14:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:3 - And David took more wives at Jerusalem: H3389 and David begat more sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 14:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:4 - Now these are the names of his children which he had in Jerusalem; H3389 Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 15:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:3 - And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, H3389 to bring up the ark of the LORD unto his place, which he had prepared for it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 18:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:7 - And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadarezer, and brought them to Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 19:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:15 - And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 20:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:1 - And it came to pass, that after the year was expired, at the time that kings go out to battle, Joab led forth the power of the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. H3389 And Joab smote Rabbah, and destroyed it.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:3 - And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Even so dealt David with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 21:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:4 - Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 21:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:15 - And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem H3389 to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 21:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:16 - And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. H3389 Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:25 - For David said, The LORD God of Israel hath given rest unto his people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem H3389 for ever:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:1 - And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that ministered to the king by course, and the captains over the thousands, and captains over the hundreds, and the stewards over all the substance and possession of the king, and of his sons, with the officers, and with the mighty men, and with all the valiant men, unto Jerusalem. H3389

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