yevusi · Jebusite

What it means

yevusi (יְבוּסִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Jebusite”.

A people of Canaan that lived in Jerusalem before David.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The people who lived in Jerusalem before David.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Jebusite ×39
• Jebusites ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×6
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×10
• Judges×4
• 2 Samuel×4
• 1 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×6
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 10:16

  and the Jebusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite,

• Genesis 15:21

  the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”

• Exodus 3:8

  And I have come down to rescue them from the hand of Egypt and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

• Exodus 3:17

  and I have said: I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’

• Exodus 13:5

  When YHWH brings you to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you shall perform this service in this month.

• Exodus 23:23

  For my angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, and I will wipe them out.

• Exodus 33:2

  And I will send before you an angel, and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

• Exodus 34:11

  Keep for yourself what I am commanding you today. Look, I am driving out before you the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

• Numbers 13:29

  Amalek lives in the land of the Negev; and the Hittite and the Jebusite and the Amorite live in the hill country; and the Canaanite lives by the sea and along the Jordan.”

• Deuteronomy 7:1

  When YHWH your Elohim brings you into the land into which you are going to take possession of it, and clears away many nations from before you —the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations more numerous and mightier than you—

• Deuteronomy 20:17

  but you shall surely devote them to destruction: the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as YHWH your Elohim has commanded you,

• Joshua 3:10

  And Joshua said, “By this you shall know that a living El is among you, and that he will certainly dispossess from before you the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Hivite, the Perizzite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, and the Jebusite.

• Joshua 9:1

  And it came about, when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, in the Shephelah, and on all the coast of the Great Sea opposite Lebanon, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it,

• Joshua 11:3

  the Canaanite in the east and in the west, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the hill country, and the Hivite below Hermon in the land of Mizpah.

• Joshua 12:8

  in the hill country, in the Shephelah, in the Arabah, in the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negev: the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:

• Joshua 15:8

  and the border went up by the Valley of Ben-hinnom to the slope of the Jebusite on the south (that is Jerusalem); and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lies over against the Valley of Hinnom to the west, which is at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim;

• Joshua 15:63

  But the Jebusite, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the sons of Judah could not dispossess them; so the Jebusite has lived with the sons of Judah in Jerusalem to this day.

• Joshua 18:16

  and the border went down to the end of the mountain that lies over against the Valley of Ben-hinnom, which is in the Valley of Rephaim to the north; and it went down by the Valley of Hinnom to the slope of the Jebusite on the south, and went down to En-rogel;

• Joshua 18:28

  Zela, Eleph, the Jebusite (that is Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath: fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin according to their families.

• Joshua 24:11

  And you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho; and the lords of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I gave them into your hand.

• Judges 1:21

  But the Jebusite who lived in Jerusalem the sons of Benjamin did not dispossess; so the Jebusite has lived with the sons of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.

• Judges 3:5

  So the sons of Israel lived among the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

• Judges 19:11

  They were near Jebus, and the day was far spent, and the young man said to his master, “Come, please, and let us turn aside to this city of the Jebusite and spend the night in it.”

• 2 Samuel 5:6

  The king and his men went to Jerusalem, against the Jebusite, who lived in the land; and he said to David, “You will not come in here, but the blind and the lame will turn you away,” as if to say, “David will not come in here.”

• 2 Samuel 5:8

  David said on that day, “Whoever strikes the Jebusite, let him reach through the channel the lame and the blind, hated by the soul of David.” Therefore they say, “The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.”

• 2 Samuel 24:16

  When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, YHWH relented concerning the evil and said to the angel who was destroying among the people, “Enough! Now withdraw your hand.” And the angel of YHWH was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

• 2 Samuel 24:18

  Gad came to David on that day and said to him, “Go up, raise an altar to YHWH on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

• 1 Kings 9:20

  All the people who were left of the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, who were not of the sons of Israel,

• 1 Chronicles 1:14

  and the Jebusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite,

• 1 Chronicles 11:4

  And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, that is Jebus; and there was the Jebusite, the inhabitants of the land.

• 1 Chronicles 11:6

  David said, “Whoever strikes the Jebusite first will be head and commander.” And Joab son of Zeruiah went up first, and he became head.

• 1 Chronicles 21:15

  Elohim sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it; and as he was destroying it, YHWH saw and relented concerning the evil, and said to the angel who was destroying, “Enough! Now drop your hand.” And the angel of YHWH was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

• 1 Chronicles 21:18

  The angel of YHWH said to Gad to tell David that David should go up to set up an altar to YHWH on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

• 1 Chronicles 21:28

  At that time, when David saw that YHWH had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there.

• 2 Chronicles 3:1

  Solomon began to build the house of YHWH in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where he had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had prepared, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

• 2 Chronicles 8:7

  All the people who were left of the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, who were not of Israel,

• Ezra 9:1

  And when these things were finished, the officials approached me, saying, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, according to their abominations, those of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, the Ammonite, the Moabite, the Egyptian, and the Amorite.

• Nehemiah 9:8

  and you found his heart faithful before you, and made with him the covenant to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his offspring; and you have fulfilled your words, for righteous are you.

• Zechariah 9:7

  And I will remove his blood from his mouth, and his detestable things from between his teeth; and he too will be left for our Elohim, and he will be like a chieftain in Judah, and Ekron like the Jebusite.

And 2 more times.