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יְבוּסִי

Yebusiyeb-oo-see'

Jebusite

41 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: Yᵉbûwçîy

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2983is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 13 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 23
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H2983

a Jebusite or inhabitant of Jebus

The King James renders it: Jebusite(-s).

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

Yebusi is rendered "Jebusite". It stands 41 times in the Hebrew text, across thirteen books.

  • Ten of the uses stand in Joshua, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 10:16the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-three different ways.

The first use

the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

Genesis 10:16הַיְבוּסִי֙

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in thirteen of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 26 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and the Jebusite19
  • the Jebusite19
  • of a Jebusite2
  • like a Jebusite1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

יְבוּלyebulcropsUses13

All 41, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

23 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • הַיְבוּסִי֙6
  • וְהַיְבוּסִֽי׃6
  • וְהַיְבוּסִ֑י4
  • וְהַיְבוּסִ֔י3
  • הַיְבוּסִ֜י2
  • הַיְבוּסִֽי׃ ס2
  • הַיְבֻסִֽי׃2
  • הַיְבוּסִ֥י1
  • הַיְבוּסִ֔י1
  • הַיְבוּסִ֑י1
  • הַיְבוּסִ֗י1
  • הַיְבוּסִֽי׃1

and 11 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)19HC/Td/Ngmsa
  • the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)19HTd/Ngmsa
  • gentilic noun (a people)2HNgmsa
  • preposition + gentilic noun (a people)1HR/Ngmsa

Genesis

two uses
  • the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

    Genesis 10:16

    • הַיְבוּסִי֙hayvusithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jebusite
  • Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”

    Genesis 15:21

    • הַיְבוּסִֽי׃ סhayvusithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jebusite

Exodus

six uses
  • I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

    Exodus 3:8

    • וְהַיְבוּסִֽי׃vehayvusiconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: and the Jebusite
  • And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’

    Exodus 3:17

    • וְהַיְבוּסִ֑יvehayvusiconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: and the Jebusite
  • And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you shall keep this service in this month.

    Exodus 13:5

    • וְהַיְבוּסִ֗יvehayvusiconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: and the Jebusite
  • For My angel will go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will annihilate them.

    Exodus 23:23

    • וְהַיְבוּסִ֑יvehayvusiconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: and the Jebusite
  • And I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

    Exodus 33:2

    • וְהַיְבוּסִֽי׃vehayvusiconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: and the Jebusite
  • Observe what I command you this day. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

    Exodus 34:11

    • וְהַיְבוּסִֽי׃vehayvusiconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: and the Jebusite

Numbers

one use
  • The Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the Jordan.”

    Numbers 13:29

    • וְהַיְבוּסִ֤יvehayvusiconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: and the Jebusite

Deuteronomy

two uses
  • When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—

    Deuteronomy 7:1

    • וְהַיְבוּסִ֔יvehayvusiconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: and the Jebusite
  • For you must devote them to complete destruction—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you,

    Deuteronomy 20:17

    • וְהַיְבוּסִ֑יvehayvusiconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: and the Jebusite

Joshua

ten uses
  • He continued, “This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that He will surely drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.

    Joshua 3:10

    • וְהַיְבוּסִֽי׃vehayvusiconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: and the Jebusite
  • Now when news of this reached all the kings west of the Jordan—those in the hill country, the foothills, and all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon (the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites)—

    Joshua 9:1

    • וְהַיְבוּסִֽי׃vehayvusiconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: and the Jebusite
  • to the Canaanites in the east and west; to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, and Jebusites in the hill country; and to the Hivites at the foot of Hermon in the land of Mizpah.

    Joshua 11:3

    • וְהַיְבוּסִ֖יvehayvusiconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: and the Jebusite
  • the hill country, the foothills, the Arabah, the slopes, the wilderness, and the Negev—the lands of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites):

    Joshua 12:8

    • וְהַיְבוּסִֽי׃ פvehayvusiconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: and the Jebusite
  • From there the border went up the Valley of Hinnom along the southern slope of the Jebusites (that is, Jerusalem) and ascended to the top of the hill that faces the Valley of Hinnom on the west, at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim.

    Joshua 15:8

    • הַיְבוּסִי֙hayvusithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jebusite
  • But the descendants of Judah could not drive out the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. So to this day the Jebusites live there among the descendants of Judah.

    Joshua 15:63

    • הַיְבוּסִי֙hayvusithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jebusite
    • הַיְבוּסִ֜יhayvusithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jebusite
  • Then it went down to the foot of the hill that faces the Valley of Hinnom at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim and ran down the Valley of Hinnom toward the southern slope of the Jebusites and downward to En-rogel.

    Joshua 18:16

    • הַיְבוּסִי֙hayvusithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jebusite
  • Zelah, Haeleph, Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath-jearim—fourteen cities, along with their villages. This was the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Benjamin.

    Joshua 18:28

    • וְהַיְבוּסִ֨יvehayvusiconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: and the Jebusite
  • After this, you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The people of Jericho fought against you, as did the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I delivered them into your hand.

    Joshua 24:11

    • וְהַיְבוּסִ֑יvehayvusiconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: and the Jebusite

Judges

four uses
  • The Benjamites, however, failed to drive out the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. So to this day the Jebusites live there among the Benjamites.

    Judges 1:21

    • הַיְבוּסִי֙hayvusithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jebusite
    • הַיְבוּסִ֜יhayvusithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jebusite
  • Thus the Israelites continued to live among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

    Judges 3:5

    • וְהַיְבוּסִֽי׃vehayvusiconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: and the Jebusite
  • When they were near Jebus and the day was almost gone, the servant said to his master, “Please, let us stop at this Jebusite city and spend the night here.”

    Judges 19:11

    • הַיְבוּסִ֥יhayvusithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jebusite

2 Samuel

four uses
  • Now the king and his men marched to Jerusalem against the Jebusites who inhabited the land. The Jebusites said to David: “You will never get in here. Even the blind and lame can repel you.” For they thought, “David cannot get in here.”

    2 Samuel 5:6

    • הַיְבֻסִ֖יhayvusithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jebusite
  • On that day he said, “Whoever attacks the Jebusites must use the water shaft to reach the lame and blind who are despised by David.” That is why it is said, “The blind and the lame will never enter the palace.”

    2 Samuel 5:8

    • יְבֻסִי֙yevusigentilic noun (a people)tagged: of a Jebusite
  • But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

    2 Samuel 24:16

    • הַיְבֻסִֽי׃ סhayvusithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jebusite
  • And that day Gad came to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

    2 Samuel 24:18

    • הַיְבֻסִֽי׃hayvusithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jebusite

1 Kings

one use
  • As for all the people who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (the people who were not Israelites)—

    1 Kings 9:20

    • וְהַיְבוּסִ֔יvehayvusiconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: and the Jebusite

1 Chronicles

six uses
  • the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

    1 Chronicles 1:14

    • הַיְבוּסִי֙hayvusithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jebusite
  • Then David and all the Israelites marched to Jerusalem (that is, Jebus), where the Jebusites inhabited the land.

    1 Chronicles 11:4

    • הַיְבוּסִ֔יhayvusithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jebusite
  • Now David had said, “Whoever is the first to strike down a Jebusite will become chief commander.” And Joab son of Zeruiah went up first, and he became the chief.

    1 Chronicles 11:6

    • יְבוּסִי֙yevusigentilic noun (a people)tagged: of a Jebusite
  • Then God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem, but as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented from the calamity, and He said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

    1 Chronicles 21:15

    • הַיְבוּסִֽי׃ סhayvusithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jebusite
  • Then the angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

    1 Chronicles 21:18

    • הַיְבֻסִֽי׃hayvusithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jebusite
  • At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he offered sacrifices there.

    1 Chronicles 21:28

    • הַיְבוּסִ֑יhayvusithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jebusite

2 Chronicles

two uses
  • Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

    2 Chronicles 3:1

    • הַיְבוּסִֽי׃hayvusithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jebusite
  • As for all the people who remained of the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (the people who were not Israelites)—

    2 Chronicles 8:7

    • וְהַיְבוּסִ֔יvehayvusiconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: and the Jebusite

Ezra

one use
  • After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the surrounding peoples whose abominations are like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.

    Ezra 9:1

    • הַיְבוּסִ֗יhayvusithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jebusite

Nehemiah

one use
  • You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites—to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.

    Nehemiah 9:8

    • וְהַיְבוּסִ֥יvehayvusiconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: and the Jebusite

Zechariah

one use
  • I will remove the blood from their mouths and the abominations from between their teeth. Then they too will become a remnant for our God; they will become like a clan in Judah, and Ekron will be like the Jebusites.

    Zechariah 9:7

    • כִּיבוּסִֽי׃kivusipreposition + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: like a Jebusite

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

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Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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