yerushalaim · Jerusalem

What it means

yerushalaim (יְרוּשָׁלִַ͏ם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Jerusalem”.

A city in the hill country that later became David's capital and the place of the temple.

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.

The place

• Jerusalem

  Today: Old City of Jerusalem

  A city in the hills of Judea, about 22 miles (35 km) west of the Dead Sea and 35 miles (55 km) east of the Mediterranean.

  David took it and made it his city (2 Sam 5:7); Solomon built the temple there (1 Kgs 8:1). Jesus was presented there, and the apostles' witness began from it (Luke 2:22; Acts 1:8).

  2 Samuel 5:61 Kings 8:1Luke 2:22Acts 1:8

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Joshua×9
• Judges×5
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×30
• 1 Kings×29
• 2 Kings×63
• 1 Chronicles×24
• 2 Chronicles×127
• Ezra×25
• Nehemiah×38
• Esther×1
• Psalms×17
• Ecclesiastes×5
• Song of Songs×8
• Isaiah×49
• Jeremiah×107
• Lamentations×7
• Ezekiel×26
• Daniel×7
• Joel×6
• Amos×2
• Obadiah×2
• Micah×8
• Zephaniah×4
• Zechariah×41
• Malachi×2

• Joshua 10:1

  And it came about, when Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had taken Ai and devoted it to destruction —as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he had done to Ai and its king— and that the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them,

• Joshua 10:3

  So Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, to Piram king of Jarmuth, to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,

• Joshua 10:5

  So they gathered and went up, the five kings of the Amorite, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, they and all their camps, and camped against Gibeon and fought against it.

• Joshua 10:23

  They did so and brought out to him these five kings from the cave: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon.

• Joshua 12:10

  the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;

• 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 18:28

  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.

• Judges 1:7

  Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings, with the thumbs of their hands and of their feet cut off, used to gather scraps under my table. As I have done, so Elohim has repaid me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

• Judges 1:8

  The sons of Judah fought against Jerusalem and captured it, and they struck it with the edge of the sword, and the city they gave over to fire.

• 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 19:10

  But the man was not willing to spend the night; he arose and went and came as far as opposite Jebus, that is Jerusalem; and with him were a pair of saddled donkeys, and his concubine was with him.

• 1 Samuel 17:54

  David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, and his weapons he put in his tent.

• 2 Samuel 5:5

  In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah.

• 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 5:13

  David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron; and more sons and daughters were born to David.

• 2 Samuel 5:14

  These are the names of those born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon,

• 2 Samuel 8:7

  David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer and brought them to Jerusalem.

• 2 Samuel 9:13

  So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, for at the table of the king he always ate; and he was lame in both his feet.

• 2 Samuel 10:14

  When the sons of Ammon saw that Aram had fled, they too fled before Abishai and entered the city. Then Joab returned from fighting against the sons of Ammon and came to Jerusalem.

• 2 Samuel 11:1

  And it happened, at the turn of the year, at the time when the kings go out, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the sons of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed in Jerusalem.

• 2 Samuel 11:12

  David said to Uriah, “Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will send you away.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.

• 2 Samuel 12:31

  And the people who were in it he brought out, and he put them with the saw and with the picks of iron and with the axes of iron, and he made them pass through the brick kiln; and so he did to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

• 2 Samuel 14:23

  Joab got up and went to Geshur and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

• 2 Samuel 14:28

  Absalom lived in Jerusalem two full years and did not see the face of the king.

• 2 Samuel 15:8

  For your servant made a vow while I was living at Geshur in Aram, saying, ‘If YHWH will indeed bring me back to Jerusalem, then I will serve YHWH.’”

• 2 Samuel 15:11

  With Absalom went two hundred men from Jerusalem, invited; they went in their integrity and did not know anything.

• 2 Samuel 15:14

  David said to all his servants who were with him in Jerusalem, “Get up, and let us flee, for there will be no escape for us from Absalom. Hurry to go, or he will quickly overtake us and bring the evil down on us and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”

• 2 Samuel 15:29

  So Zadok and Abiathar took back the ark of Elohim to Jerusalem, and they stayed there.

• 2 Samuel 15:37

  So Hushai, David’s companion, came to the city, just as Absalom was coming into Jerusalem.

• 2 Samuel 16:3

  The king said, “And where is the son of your master?” Ziba said to the king, “Look, he is staying in Jerusalem, for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will give back to me the kingdom of my father.’”

• 2 Samuel 16:15

  Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel was with him.

• 2 Samuel 17:20

  Absalom’s servants came to the woman at the house and said, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” The woman said to them, “They have crossed the brook of water.” They searched and did not find them, and they returned to Jerusalem.

• 2 Samuel 19:19

  and he said to the king, “Let not my lord hold iniquity against me, and do not remember what your servant did with iniquity on the day that my lord the king went out from Jerusalem, so that the king would take it to heart.

• 2 Samuel 19:25

  When he came to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, “Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?”

• 2 Samuel 19:33

  The king said to Barzillai, “You cross over with me, and I will provide for you with me in Jerusalem.”

• 2 Samuel 19:34

  Barzillai said to the king, “How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

• 2 Samuel 20:2

  So all the men of Israel went up from after David and after Sheba son of Bichri; but the men of Judah clung to their king from the Jordan to Jerusalem.

• 2 Samuel 20:3

  David came to his house in Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women, the concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in a house under guard; he provided for them, but to them he did not go in. So they were shut up until the day of their death, in widowhood for life.

• 2 Samuel 20:7

  So there went out after him Joab’s men and the Cherethites and the Pelethites and all the mighty men; they went out from Jerusalem to pursue after Sheba son of Bichri.

And 603 more times.