יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִםYᵉrûwshâlaim

proper name [of a location]: Jerusalem (Joshua 10:10; 1 Samuel 17:54; Jeremiah 26:18; 1 Chronicles 3:5; 2 Chronicles 25:1)

Pronunciation: yer-oo-shaw-lah'-im · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3389

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 643 times in the Bible.

  • Joshua 10:1 Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, heard that Joshua had captured and completely destroyed Ai and killed its king, just as he had destroyed the town of Jericho and killed its king. He also learned that the Gibeonites had made peace with Israel and were now their allies.
  • Joshua 10:3 So King Adoni-zedek of Jerusalem sent messengers to several other kings: Hoham of Hebron, Piram of Jarmuth, Japhia of Lachish, and Debir of Eglon.
  • Joshua 10:5 So these five Amorite kings combined their armies for a united attack. They moved all their troops into place and attacked Gibeon.
  • Joshua 10:23 So they brought the five kings out of the cave—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon.
  • Joshua 12:10 The king of Jerusalem The king of Hebron
  • Joshua 15:8 The boundary then passed through the valley of Ben-Hinnom, along the southern slopes of the Jebusites, where the city of Jerusalem is located. Then it went west to the top of the mountain above the valley of Hinnom, and on up to the northern end of the valley of Rephaim.
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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).