HebrewH2983Noun

יְבוּסִי

ye.vu.si

39Occurrences
H2983Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a Jebusite or inhabitant of Jebus

patrial from H2982 (יְבוּס);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
Someone descended from Jebus(?) of the Canaanites, first mentioned at ; descended from Canaan (H3667); along with Sidon (H6721), Heth (H2845), Amorite (H0567), Girgashite (H1622), Hivite (H2340), Arkite (H6208), Sinite (H5513), Arvadite (H0721), Zemarite (H6786) and Hamathite (H2577) § Jebusite = "descendants of Jebus" descendants of the 3rd son of Canaan who lived in or around the site of Jebus, the early name for Jerusalem

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--LG

Full Description

N:N--LG

Occurrences

יְבוּסִי appears 39 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Joshua
9
1 Chronicles
6
Exodus
6
2 Samuel
4
Judges
3
2 Chronicles
2
Deuteronomy
2
Genesis
2

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 1:14BSB

the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

2 Chronicles 3:1BSB

Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Deuteronomy 7:1BSB

When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—

Ezra 9:1BSB

After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the surrounding peoples whose abominations are like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.

Joshua 12:8BSB

the hill country, the foothills, the Arabah, the slopes, the wilderness, and the Negev—the lands of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites):

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