Ἱερουσαλήμ
Hierousalēm · Jerusalem
Greek word · Strong’s number G2419 · appears 76 times in the Bible
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Hierousalēm (Ἱερουσαλήμ) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “Jerusalem”.
The city of David and of the temple, the capital of Judea.
How to say it
Hi·e·rou·sa·lēm
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).
Where it appears
- Matthew 23:37
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing!
- Luke 2:25
And look, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon; and this man was righteous and devout, waiting for the comfort of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
- Luke 2:38
And coming up at that very hour, she was giving thanks to God and was speaking about him to all who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.
- Luke 2:41
And his parents used to go every year to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover.
- Luke 2:43
and when they had completed the days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, and his parents did not know it.
- Luke 2:45
and when they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, searching for him.
- Luke 4:9
And he brought him to Jerusalem and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here;
- Luke 5:17
And it happened, on one of the days, that he was teaching, and there were sitting there Pharisees and teachers of the law who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was with him for him to heal.
- Luke 6:17
And coming down with them, he stood on a level place, and there was a large crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coast of Tyre and Sidon,
- Luke 9:31
who, appearing in glory, were speaking of his departure, which he was about to fulfill in Jerusalem.
- Luke 9:51
Now it happened, as the days of his being taken up were being fulfilled, that he set his face to go to Jerusalem.
- Luke 9:53
And they did not receive him, because his face was going toward Jerusalem.
- Luke 10:30
And Jesus replied and said, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among bandits, who also stripped him and laid blows on him and went away, leaving him half dead.
- Luke 13:4
Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they were debtors more than all the people who live in Jerusalem?
- Luke 13:33
Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the day following, because it is not possible for a prophet to perish outside Jerusalem.
- Luke 13:34
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children the way a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you were not willing!
- Luke 17:11
And it happened, as he was going to Jerusalem, that he was passing between Samaria and Galilee.
- Luke 18:31
And taking aside the twelve, he said to them, “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything written through the prophets about the Son of Man will be accomplished.
- Luke 19:11
And as they were listening to these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear immediately.
- Luke 21:20
But when you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near.
- Luke 21:24
And they will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled by nations until the times of the nations are fulfilled.
- Luke 23:28
But Jesus, turning to them, said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children,
- Luke 24:13
And look, two of them on that very day were going to a village sixty stadia away from Jerusalem, whose name was Emmaus;
- Luke 24:18
And one of them, named Cleopas, answered and said to him, “Are you the only one staying as a visitor in Jerusalem and you do not know the things that have happened in it in these days?”
- Luke 24:33
And rising that very hour, they returned to Jerusalem, and they found the eleven gathered together, and those with them,
- Luke 24:47
and that change of mind and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
- Luke 24:52
And they, having bowed down before him, returned to Jerusalem with great joy,
- Acts 1:8
but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
- Acts 1:12
Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away.
- Acts 1:19
And it became known to all those who live in Jerusalem, so that that field was called in their own language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.
- Acts 2:5
Now there were Jews living in Jerusalem, devout men from every nation of those under heaven.
- Acts 2:14
But Peter, standing up with the eleven, raised his voice and spoke out to them: “Jewish men and all who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and give ear to my words.
- Acts 4:5
And it happened on the next day that their rulers and the elders and the scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem,
- Acts 4:16
saying, “What shall we do with these men? For that a notable sign has occurred through them is evident to all who live in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.
- Acts 5:16
And the multitude from the cities around Jerusalem also were coming together, bringing the sick and those tormented by unclean spirits, who all were being healed.
- Acts 5:28
saying, “We strictly ordered you not to teach in this name, and look, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring upon us the blood of this man.”
- Acts 6:7
And the word of God kept growing, and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem was multiplying greatly, and a great crowd of the priests were obeying the faith.
- Acts 8:26
But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Get up and go toward the south, on the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza; this is desert.”
- Acts 8:27
And he got up and went. And look, an Ethiopian man, a eunuch, an official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasury, who had come to Jerusalem to worship,
- Acts 9:2
and asked from him letters to Damascus, to the synagogues, so that if he found any who were of the Way, both men and women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
And 36 more times.