יְרוּשָׁלִַ֫ם, יְרוּשְׁלֵם

ye.ru.sha.laim · Jerusalem

Hebrew · Strong's H3389 · Noun · Sounds like: yer-oo-shaw-lah'-im · 643 occurrences

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

rarely יְרוּשָׁלַיִם; a dual (in allusion to its two main hills (the true pointing, at least of the former reading, seems to be that of יְרוּשָׁלֵם)); probably from (the passive participle of) יָרָה and שָׁלַם; founded peaceful; Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine; Jerusalem.

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Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
יְרוּשָׁלִַ֫͏ם, יְרוּשָׁלַ֫יִם 644 n.pr.loc. Jerusalem

Every occurrence

  1. Lamentations 1:7 יְרוּשָׁלִַ֗ם ye.ru.sha.Lim · A person, place or thing

    Jerusalem remembereth in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: When her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and none did help her, The adversaries saw her, they did mock at her desolations.

  2. Lamentations 1:8 יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם ye.Ru.sha.Lim · A person, place or thing

    Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is become as an unclean thing; All that honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: Yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.

  3. Lamentations 1:17 יְרוּשָׁלִַ֛ם ye.ru.sha.Lim · A person, place or thing

    Zion spreadeth forth her hands; there is none to comfort her; Jehovah hath commanded concerning Jacob, that they that are round about him should be his adversaries: Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.

  4. Lamentations 2:10 יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ ס ye.ru.sha.Lim · A person, place or thing

    The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence; They have cast up dust upon their heads; They have girded themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

  5. Lamentations 2:13 יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם ye.Ru.sha.Lim · A person, place or thing

    What shall I testify unto thee? what shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? For thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?

  6. Lamentations 2:15 יְרוּשָׁלִָ֑ם ye.ru.sha.Lim · A person, place or thing

    All that pass by clap their hands at thee; They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

  7. Lamentations 4:12 יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ ס ye.ru.sha.Lim · A person, place or thing

    The kings of the earth believed not, neither all the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.

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