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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 2 / 12 (1Ki 9:15–2Ki 22:1)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:15 - Now this is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon levied to build the house of the LORD, his own house, the [fn]Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, H3389 Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:19 - and all the storage cities which Solomon had, even the cities for [fn]his chariots and the cities for [fn]his horsemen, and [fn]all that it pleased Solomon to build in Jerusalem, H3389 in Lebanon, and in all the land [fn]under his rule.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 10:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:2 - So she came to Jerusalem H3389 with a very large retinue, with camels carrying spices and very much gold and precious stones. When she came to Solomon, she spoke with him about all that was in her heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 10:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:26 - Now Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen; and he had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, and he [fn]stationed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 10:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:27 - The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, H3389 and he made cedars as plentiful as sycamore trees that are in the [fn]lowland.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:7 - Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the detestable idol of Moab, on the mountain which is [fn]east of Jerusalem, H3389 and for Molech the detestable idol of the sons of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:13 - “However, I will not tear away all the kingdom, but I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem H3389 which I have chosen.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:29 - It came about at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, H3389 that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the road. Now [fn]Ahijah had clothed himself with a new cloak; and both of them were alone in the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:32 - (but he will have one tribe, for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, H3389 the city which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel),

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:36 - ‘But to his son I will give one tribe, that My servant David may have a lamp always before Me in Jerusalem, H3389 the city where I have chosen for Myself to put My name.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:42

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:42 - Thus the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem H3389 over all Israel was forty years.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:18 - Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the forced labor, and all Israel stoned him [fn]to death. And King Rehoboam made haste to mount his chariot to flee to Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:21 - Now when Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, H3389 he assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, 180,000 chosen men who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:27 - “If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, H3389 then the heart of this people will return to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:28 - So the king [fn]consulted, and made two golden calves, and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem; H3389 behold your gods, O Israel, that brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:21 - Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, H3389 the city which the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel to put His name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:25 - Now it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, that Shishak the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:2 - He reigned three years in Jerusalem; H3389 and his mother’s name was [fn]Maacah the daughter of [fn]Abishalom.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:4 - But for David’s sake the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, H3389 to raise up his son after him and to establish Jerusalem; H3389

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:10 - He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem; H3389 and his mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:42

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:42 - Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. H3389 And his mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:17 - He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:26 - Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. H3389 And his mother’s name was Athaliah the granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:28 - Then his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem H3389 and buried him in his grave with his fathers in the city of David.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 12:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:1 - In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem; H3389 and his mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 12:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:17 - Then Hazael king of Aram went up and fought against Gath and captured it, and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 12:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:18 - Jehoash king of Judah took all the sacred things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own sacred things and all the gold that was found among the treasuries of the house of the LORD and of the king’s house, and sent them to Hazael king of Aram. Then he went away from Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 14:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:2 - He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. H3389 And his mother’s name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 14:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:13 - Then Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem H3389 and tore down the wall of Jerusalem H3389 from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate, 400 [fn]cubits.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 14:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:19 - They conspired against him in Jerusalem, H3389 and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish and killed him there.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 14:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:20 - Then they brought him on horses and he was buried at Jerusalem H3389 with his fathers in the city of David.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 15:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:2 - He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem; H3389 and his mother’s name was [fn]Jecoliah of Jerusalem. H3389

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 15:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:33 - He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; H3389 and his mother’s name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 16:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:2 - Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; H3389 and he did not do what was right in the sight of the LORD his God, as his father David had done.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 16:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:5 - Then Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem H3389 to wage war; and they besieged Ahaz, but could not [fn]overcome him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:2 - He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem; H3389 and his mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:17 - Then the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah with a large army to Jerusalem. H3389 So they went up and came to Jerusalem. H3389 And when they went up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway of the [fn]fuller’s field.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:22 - “But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, H3389 ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem’? H3389

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:35

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:35 - ‘Who among all the gods of the lands [fn]have delivered their land from my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem H3389 from my hand?’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:10 - “Thus you shall say to Hezekiah king of [fn]Judah, ‘Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you saying, “Jerusalem H3389 will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:21 - “This is the word that the LORD has spoken against him:
‘She has despised you and mocked you,
The virgin daughter of Zion;
She has shaken her head behind you,
The daughter of Jerusalem! H3389

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:31 - ‘For out of Jerusalem H3389 will go forth a remnant, and out of Mount Zion [fn]survivors. The zeal of [fn]the LORD will perform this.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:1 - Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem; H3389 and his mother’s name was Hephzibah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:4 - He built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem H3389 I will put My name.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:7 - Then he set the carved image of Asherah that he had made, in the house of which the LORD said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this house and in Jerusalem, H3389 which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:12 - therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I am bringing such calamity on Jerusalem H3389 and Judah, that whoever hears of it, both his ears will tingle.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:13 - ‘I will stretch over Jerusalem H3389 the line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem H3389 as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:16 - Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood until he had filled Jerusalem H3389 from one end to another; besides his sin with which he made Judah sin, in doing evil in the sight of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:19 - Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem; H3389 and his mother’s name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:1 - Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem; H3389 and his mother’s name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.

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