יְבוּסִי yevusi

Hebrew word for “Jebusite” · Strong’s H2983 · used 41 times in 39 verses

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Meaning

Someone descended from Jebus(?) of the Canaanites, first mentioned at Gen.10.16;

Senses in the lexicon

• Jebusite (39)
• Jebus (2)

How it is translated

Glosses given for yevusi in context, with how often each is used:

• jebusites 31
• jebusite 9
• will be like a jebusite 1

Where it is used

Also in 1 more book.

Chapters where it is used most

1 Chronicles 21 (3), Exodus 3 (2), Joshua 15 (2), Joshua 18 (2), 2 Samuel 5 (2), 2 Samuel 24 (2), 1 Chronicles 11 (2), Genesis 10 (1), Genesis 15 (1), Exodus 13 (1)

Forms

• והיבוסי 19
• היבוסי 15
• היבסי 4
• יבסי 1
• יבוסי 1
• כיבוסי 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with yevusi more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אֱמֹרִי emori “Amorite” 22
• חִתִּי chitti “Hittite” 19
• פְּרִזִּי perizzi “Perizzite” 17
• חִוִּי chivvi “Hivite” 16
• כְּנַעֲנִי kenaani “Canaanite” 18
• גִּרְגָּשִׁי girgashi “Girgashite” 7
• גֹּרֶן goren “threshing floor” 6
• יְרוּשָׁלִַם yerushalaim “Jerusalem” 9
• אׇרְנָן ornan “Ornan” 4
• הַר har “mountain” 7
• דָּוִד david “David” 8
• מַלְאָךְ maleakh “messenger” 5

Key verses

The verses using yevusi that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 3:8 — And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing…
• Exodus 3:17 — And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites,…
• Exodus 13:5 — And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which…
• Exodus 34:11 — Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the…
• Deuteronomy 7:1 — When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the…
• Joshua 3:10 — And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the…
• Joshua 9:1 — And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against…
• Joshua 11:3 — And to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains, and to the Hivite…
• 2 Samuel 24:16 — And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It…
• 1 Chronicles 21:15 — And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that…
• Ezra 9:1 — Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the…
• Nehemiah 9:8 — And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites,…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.