יְבוּסִי
Jebusite
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Gentilic
- A noun naming a member of a people, tribe, or region of origin (e.g. an Israelite, a Moabite).
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H2983 appears in the Book of 2 Chronicles — 2 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
2 Chronicles
- 2 Chronicles 3:1 הַ/יְבוּסִֽי ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where [Yahweh] appeared to David his father, which he made ready in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- 2 Chronicles 8:7 וְ/הַ/יְבוּסִ֔י conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms As for all the people who were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel;
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew name יבוסי centers on the idea of “Jebusite.” First canonically at Genesis 10:16, it enters the text early. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 39 verses — moderately common. For the data behind this summary, explore 39-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2983 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 39
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 39 distinct verses.
- 13 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 13 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #891
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 891 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 39 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Joshua 9 verses 23%
- Exodus 6 verses 15%
- 1 Chronicles 6 verses 15%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 39 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 18 verses · 46%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 11 verses · 28%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 10 verses · 26%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Jebusites 25×, Jebusite 14×, Jebusi 2×
- American Standard Version: Jebusite 28×, Jebusites 12×
- Berean Standard Bible: Jebusites 31×, Jebusite 8×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Jebusite 29×, Jebusites 11×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2983 across 41 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2983 across 41 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2983 across 41 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2983 across 41 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. adj.gent. Jebusite, Jebusites, sg. אורנה הַיְבֻסִי 2 S 24:16, 18 cf. 1 Ch 21:15, 18, 28 2 Ch 3:1; as subst. a Jebusite Zc 9:7; usually c. art. הַי׳ coll. the Jebusites, in hist. statement Gn 10:16 (J) = 1 Ch 1:14 Nu 13:29 (E) Jos 9:1; 11:3; 12:8; 24:11 (all D) Ju 3:5 Ne 9:8, all in list of Canaanitish peoples; so also 1 K 9:20 = 2 Ch 8:7, where remnant of these peoples referred to; also Ezr 9:1, which seems to shew that this list had become a standing expression for early inhabitants; cf. further in promises (JED) Gn 15:21 Ex 3:8, 17; 13:5; 23:23; 33:2; 34:11 Dt 7:1; 20:17; Jos 3:10; specif. defined as inhabitants of Jebus-Jerusalem Jos 15:63(×2) (J) Ju 1:21(×2) 2 S 5:6, 8 (on which cf. Dr) 1 Ch 11:6 (called also יוֹשֵׁב הָאָרֶץ 2 S 5:6 & ישְׁבֵי הָאָרֶץ 1 Ch 11:4); v. also עִיר הַיְבוּסִי הַזֹּאת Ju 19:11; whence e.g. 2 Samuel 24:16
- 2. Jerusalem, Hex only P, Jos 15:8 גֵּי בֶן־הִנֹּם אֶל־כֶּתֶף היבוסי מִנֶּגֶב הִיא יְרוּשָׁלָ֑םִ, cf. 18:16; 18:28 וְהַיְבוּסִי הִיא יְרוּשָׁלַםִ.—Cf. כנען. e.g. Joshua 15:8
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
v. sub בוס p. 101a supr.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from יבוס (Yᵉbûwç) (H2982) — Jebus.
Forms in the corpus
The 20 distinct written forms H2983 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/הַ/יְבוּסִֽי | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 3:8 | 7 |
| הַ/יְבוּסִי֙ | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 10:16 | 6 |
| וְ/הַ/יְבוּסִ֑י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 20:17 | 4 |
| הַ/יְבֻסִֽי | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 21:18 | 3 |
| הַ/יְבוּסִֽי | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 15:21 | 3 |
| וְ/הַ/יְבוּסִ֔י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 7:1 | 3 |
| הַ/יְבוּסִ֜י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Joshua 15:63 | 2 |
| הַ/יְבֻסִ֖י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Samuel 5:6 | 1 |
| הַ/יְבוּסִ֑י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 21:28 | 1 |
| הַ/יְבוּסִ֔י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 11:4 | 1 |
| הַ/יְבוּסִ֗י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezra 9:1 | 1 |
| הַ/יְבוּסִ֥י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Judges 19:11 | 1 |
| וְ/הַ/יְבוּסִ֖י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Joshua 11:3 | 1 |
| וְ/הַ/יְבוּסִ֗י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 13:5 | 1 |
| וְ/הַ/יְבוּסִ֤י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Numbers 13:29 | 1 |
| וְ/הַ/יְבוּסִ֥י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Nehemiah 9:8 | 1 |
| וְ/הַ/יְבוּסִ֨י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Joshua 18:28 | 1 |
| יְבֻסִי֙ | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Samuel 5:8 | 1 |
| יְבוּסִי֙ | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 11:6 | 1 |
| כִּ/יבוּסִֽי | Noun, Proper | Zechariah 9:7 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 37 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 39 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 10:16
- Exodus 3:8
- Numbers 13:29
- Deuteronomy 7:1
- Joshua 3:10
- Judges 1:21
- 2 Samuel 5:6
- 1 Chronicles 1:14
- 2 Chronicles 3:1
- Ezra 9:1
- Zechariah 9:7
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
