יְבוּסYᵉbûwç
proper name [of a location]: Jebus, name of Jerusalem according to Judg 19:10 (Judges 19:10; Judges 19:11; 1 Chronicles 11:4; 1 Chronicles 11:5)
Pronunciation: yeb-oos' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2982
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 4 times in the Bible.
- Judges 19:10 But this time the man was determined to leave. So he took his two saddled donkeys and his concubine and headed in the direction of Jebus (that is, Jerusalem).
- Judges 19:11 It was late in the day when they neared Jebus, and the man’s servant said to him, “Let’s stop at this Jebusite town and spend the night there.”
- 1 Chronicles 11:4 Then David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (or Jebus, as it used to be called), where the Jebusites, the original inhabitants of the land, were living.
- 1 Chronicles 11:5 The people of Jebus taunted David, saying, “You’ll never get in here!” But David captured the fortress of Zion, which is now called the City of David.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).