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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-ṢedekJoshua 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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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)

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:14 -

So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of [fn]Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem H3389 in the Second Quarter); and they spoke to her.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:1 -

Then the king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem H3389.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:2 - And the king went up to the house of Yahweh 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 hearing all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:4 -

Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second order and the [fn]doorkeepers, to bring out of the temple of Yahweh all the vessels that were made for Baal, for [fn]Asherah, and for all the host of heaven; and he burned them outside Jerusalem H3389 in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:5 - And he did away with the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed and who burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah and in the surrounding area of Jerusalem H3389, as well as those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and to the moon and to the constellations and to all the host of heaven.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:6 - And he brought out the Asherah from the house of Yahweh outside Jerusalem H3389 to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and ground it to dust, and threw its dust on the graves of the [fn]common people.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:9 - Nevertheless the priests of the high places did not go up to the altar of Yahweh in Jerusalem H3389, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:13 - And the high places which were before Jerusalem H3389, which were on the right of the mount of destruction which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the detestable idol of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the detestable idol of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the sons of Ammon, the king defiled.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:20 - And all the priests of the high places who were there he [fn]slaughtered on the altars and burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem H3389.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:23 - But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was celebrated to Yahweh in Jerusalem H3389.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24 -

Moreover, the mediums and the spiritists and the teraphim and the idols and all the detestable things that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem H3389, Josiah purged in order that he might [fn]establish the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:27 - And Yahweh said, “I will remove Judah also from My presence, as I have removed Israel. And I will reject Jerusalem H3389, this city which I have chosen, and the [fn]house of which I said, ‘My name shall be there.’”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:30 - And his servants drove [fn]his body in a chariot from Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem H3389 and buried him in his own tomb. Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:31 -

Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem H3389; and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:33 - And Pharaoh Neco imprisoned him at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem H3389; and he imposed on the land a fine of one hundred [fn]talents of silver and one talent of gold.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:36 -

Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem H3389; and his mother’s name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:4 - and also for the innocent blood which he shed, for he filled Jerusalem H3389 with innocent blood; and Yahweh was not willing to pardon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:8 -

Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem H3389; and his mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem H3389.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:10 -

At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon went up to Jerusalem H3389, and the city came under siege.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:14 - Then he took away into exile all Jerusalem H3389 and all the commanders and all the mighty men of valor, 10,000 captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None was left except the poorest people of the land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:15 -

So he took Jehoiachin away into exile to Babylon; also the king’s mother and the king’s wives and his officials and the leading men of the land, he led away into exile from Jerusalem H3389 to Babylon.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:18 -

Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem H3389; and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:20 - For through the anger of Yahweh this came about in Jerusalem H3389 and Judah until He cast them out from His presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:1 -

Now in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his military force, against Jerusalem H3389, and he camped against it and built a siege wall all around [fn]it.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:8 -

Now on the seventh day of the fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem H3389.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:9 - And he burned the house of Yahweh, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem H3389; even every great house he burned with fire.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:10 - So all the military force of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard tore down the walls around Jerusalem H3389.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:4 -

Six were born to him in Hebron, and there he reigned seven years and six months. And in Jerusalem H3389 he reigned thirty-three years.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:5 -

These were born to him in Jerusalem H3389:

Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon, four, by Bath-shua the daughter of Ammiel;

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:10 -

and Johanan became the father of Azariah (it was he who ministered as the priest in the house which Solomon built in Jerusalem H3389),

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:15 -

and Jehozadak went along when Yahweh took Judah and Jerusalem H3389 away into exile by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:32 - And they ministered with song before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, until Solomon had built the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem H3389; and they stood for their service according to their custom.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:28 -

These were heads of the fathers’ households according to their generations, the heads [fn]who lived in Jerusalem H3389.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:32 -

Mikloth became the father of [fn]Shimeah. And they also lived with their [fn]relatives in Jerusalem H3389 opposite their other [fn]relatives.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:3 - And some of the sons of Judah, of the sons of Benjamin and of the sons of Ephraim and Manasseh lived in Jerusalem H3389:
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:34 - These were heads of fathers’ households of the Levites according to their generations, the heads [fn]who lived in Jerusalem H3389.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:38 -

Mikloth became the father of Shimeam. And they also lived with their relatives in Jerusalem H3389 opposite their other relatives.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:4 -

Then David and all Israel went to Jerusalem H3389 (that is, Jebus); and the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were there.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:3 -

Then David took more wives at Jerusalem H3389, and David [fn]became the father of more sons and daughters.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:4 - These are the names of the children [fn]born to him in Jerusalem H3389:

Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:3 - Then David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem H3389 to bring up the ark of Yahweh to its place which he had prepared for it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:7 - And David took the small shields of gold which were [fn]carried by the servants of Hadadezer and brought them to Jerusalem H3389.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:15 - Now the sons of Ammon saw that the Arameans fled. So they themselves also fled before Abshai his brother and came into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem H3389.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:1 -

Now it happened [fn]in the spring, at the time when kings go out to battle, that Joab led out the force of the military and brought the land of the sons of Ammon to ruin, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem H3389. And Joab struck Rabbah and [fn]tore it down.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:3 - He also brought out the people who were in it and [fn]made them work with saws and with sharp iron instruments and with axes. And thus David used to do to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem H3389.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:4 - Nevertheless, the king’s word stood strong against Joab. So, Joab went out and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem H3389.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:15 - And God sent an angel to Jerusalem H3389 to destroy it; but as he was about to destroy it, Yahweh saw and [fn]relented concerning the calamity, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough! Now relax your hand.” And the angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing floor of [fn]Ornan the Jebusite.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:16 - Then David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of Yahweh standing between earth and heaven, with his drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem H3389. Then David and the elders, covered with sackcloth, fell on their faces.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:25 - For David said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, has given rest to His people, and He dwells in Jerusalem H3389 forever.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:1 -

And David assembled at Jerusalem H3389 all the commanders of Israel, the commanders of the tribes, and the commanders of the divisions that ministered to the king, and the commanders of thousands, and the commanders of hundreds, and the commanders over all the property and livestock belonging to the king and his sons, with the officials and the mighty men, even all the mighty men of valor.


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