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יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִם

Yerushalaim

yer-oo-shaw-lah'-im

Strong's 1890 spelling: Yᵉrûwshâlaim

Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine

Rendered in the KJV as

Jerusalem.

  • 643
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 14 of 39
    Old Testament booksamong the first 500 shown
  • 120
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 500 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 120

  • בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם39
  • יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃39
  • יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם38
  • יְרוּשָׁלִָ֑ם35
  • בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃30
  • יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם29
  • יְרוּשָׁלִַ֗ם18
  • יְרוּשָׁלִַ֔ם17
  • בִּירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם15
  • בִּיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם14
  • יְרוּשָׁלִַ֜ם14
  • יְרוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙13

and 108 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 21

  • Jerusalem241
  • in Jerusalem138
  • and Jerusalem23
  • from Jerusalem22
  • and in Jerusalem18
  • O Jerusalem12
  • to Jerusalem12
  • and to Jerusalem8
  • of Jerusalem6
  • Jerusalem towards4
  • [is] Jerusalem3
  • [was] in Jerusalem2

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 5

  • proper noun (a name)257
  • preposition + proper noun (a name)189
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)27
  • conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)23
  • proper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)4
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNpl · 257
  • HR/Npl · 189
  • HC/R/Npl · 27
  • HC/Npl · 23
  • HNpl/Sd · 4

The first 500 of 643, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

2 Chronicles carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Joshua9 occurrences
Judges5 occurrences
1 Samuel1 occurrence
2 Samuel30 occurrences
1 Kings29 occurrences
2 Kings63 occurrences
1 Chronicles24 occurrences
2 Chronicles127 occurrences
Nehemiah38 occurrences
Psalms17 occurrences
Ecclesiastes5 occurrences
Song of Solomon8 occurrences
Isaiah49 occurrences
Jeremiah95 occurrences
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).