Yevusi יְבוּסִי

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Yevusi
יְבוּסִי
Transliterationyevusi
Strong's numberH2983 (H2983G, H2983H)
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechplace name
GlossJebusite
Occurrences41 in 39 verses
Most frequent inJoshua (9)

Yevusi (Hebrew יְבוּסִי, Strong's H2983) is a place name in the Old Testament, glossed “Jebusite”. It occurs 41 times.

Definition

H2983G: Jebusite

Someone descended from Jebus(?) of the Canaanites, first mentioned at Gen.10.16; 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

H2983H: Jebus

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
Another spelling of ye.ru.sha.laim (יְרוּשָׁלִַ֫ם, יְרוּשְׁלֵם "Jerusalem" H3389)

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVjebusites (25), jebusite (14), jebusi (2)
BSBjebusites (31), jebusite (8), jebus (1), will be like the jebusites (1)

Verses

Every verse with Yevusi, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Exodus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

Judges

2 Samuel

1 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Ezra

Nehemiah

Zechariah

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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