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# יְבוּס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2982

**Jebus** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Jebus [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2982/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יְבוּס: n.pr.loc. Jebus [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2982/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Jebus, name of Jerusalem according to Ju 19:10 יְבוּס הִיא יְרוּשָׁלַםִ, cf. also v 11; 1 Ch 11:4 יְרוּשָׁלַםִ הִיא יְבוּס, cf. v 5.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Jebus (2); \[was\] Jebus (1); of Jebus (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 11:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.4/#tree)

וַיֵּ֨לֶךְ דָּוִ֧יד וְכָל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם הִ֣יא יְב֑וּס וְשָׁם֙ הַיְבוּסִ֔י יֹשְׁבֵ֖י הָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* and he.went David and all Israel Jerusalem that \[was\].Jebus and.\[were\] there the Jebusite\[s\] the.inhabitants of the.land

*JPS 1917:* And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem — the same is Jebus — and the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were there.

[1 Chronicles 11:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.5/#tree)

וַיֹּ֨אמְר֜וּ יֹשְׁבֵ֤י יְבוּס֙ לְדָוִ֔יד לֹ֥א תָב֖וֹא הֵ֑נָּה וַיִּלְכֹּ֤ד דָּוִיד֙ אֶת־מְצֻדַ֣ת צִיּ֔וֹן הִ֖יא עִ֥יר דָּוִֽיד׃

*Word for word:* and they.said the.inhabitants of.Jebus to David not you.will.come here and he.captured David (et) the.stronghold of.Zion that \[is\].the.city of.David

*JPS 1917:* And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David: 'Thou shalt not come in hither.' Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2982.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2982/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).