יְרוּשָׁלִַ֫ם, יְרוּשְׁלֵם

ye.ru.sha.laimJerusalemHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentName of a place643 occurrences26 books600 verses
This is the name of the place Jerusalem: The capital of Israel, a holy city for three religions.

Definition

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 H3390)); probably from (the passive participle of) H3384 and H7999; founded peaceful; Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine
Traditional renderings: Jerusalem.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders יְרוּשָׁלִַ֫ם, יְרוּשְׁלֵם:

Glossary entries

Zion Jerusalem Jebus, Jebusite Salem Ariel (Place) Hephzibah

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

643 total
  1. Ezekiel 9:4יְרֽוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · Jerusalem
    “Go throughout the city of Jerusalem,” said the LORD, “and put a mark on the foreheads of the men sighing and groaning over all the abominations committed there.”
  2. Ezekiel 9:8יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · Jerusalem
    While they were killing, I was left alone. And I fell facedown and cried out, “Oh, Lord GOD, when You pour out Your wrath on Jerusalem, will You destroy the entire remnant of Israel?”
  3. Ezekiel 11:15יְרוּשָׁלִַ֗ם · of Jerusalem
    “Son of man, your brothers—your relatives, your fellow exiles, and the whole house of Israel—are those of whom the people of Jerusalem have said, ‘They are far away from the LORD; this land has been given to us as a possession.’
  4. Ezekiel 12:10בִּיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם · in Jerusalem
    Tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘This burden concerns the prince in Jerusalem and all the house of Israel who are there.’
  5. Ezekiel 12:19יְרוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ · in Jerusalem
    Then tell the people of the land that this is what the Lord GOD says about those living in Jerusalem and in the land of Israel: ‘They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in dread, for their land will be stripped of everything in it because of the violence of all who dwell in it.
  6. Ezekiel 13:16יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם · Jerusalem
    …those prophets of Israel who prophesied to Jerusalem and saw a vision of peace for her when there was no peace, declares the Lord GOD.’
  7. Ezekiel 14:21יְרוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · Jerusalem
    For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem My four dire judgments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—in order to cut off from it both man and beast?
  8. Ezekiel 14:22יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם · Jerusalem
    Yet, behold, some survivors will be left in it—sons and daughters who will be brought out. They will come out to you, and when you see their conduct and actions, you will be comforted regarding the disaster I have brought upon Jerusalem—all that I have brought upon it.
  9. Ezekiel 15:6יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · of Jerusalem
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give up the people of Jerusalem.
  10. Ezekiel 16:2יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם · Jerusalem
    “Son of man, confront Jerusalem with her abominations
  11. Ezekiel 16:3לִיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם · to Jerusalem
    …and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
  12. Ezekiel 17:12יְרוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ · to Jerusalem
    “Now say to this rebellious house: ‘Do you not know what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, carried off its king and officials, and brought them back with him to Babylon.
  13. Ezekiel 21:2יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם · Jerusalem
    “Son of man, set your face against Jerusalem and preach against the sanctuaries. Prophesy against the land of Israel
  14. Ezekiel 21:20בִירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם · Jerusalem
    Mark out one road for the sword to come against Rabbah of the Ammonites, and another against Judah into fortified Jerusalem.
  15. Ezekiel 21:22יְרוּשָׁלִַ֗ם · for Jerusalem
    In his right hand appears the portent for Jerusalem, where he is to set up battering rams, to call for the slaughter, to lift a battle cry, to direct the battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp, and to erect a siege wall.
  16. Ezekiel 22:19יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · Jerusalem
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because all of you have become dross, behold, I will gather you into Jerusalem.
  17. Ezekiel 23:4וִירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם · is Jerusalem
    The older was named Oholah, and her sister was named Oholibah. They became Mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their identities, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.
  18. Ezekiel 24:2יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם · Jerusalem
    “Son of man, write down today’s date, for on this very day the king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem.
  19. Ezekiel 26:2יְרוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ · Jerusalem
    “Son of man, because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, ‘Aha! The gate to the nations is broken; it has swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will be filled,’
  20. Ezekiel 33:21מִירוּשָׁלִַ֛ם · from Jerusalem
    In the twelfth year of our exile, on the fifth day of the tenth month, a fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and reported, “The city has been taken!”
  21. Ezekiel 36:38יְרוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ · at Jerusalem
    Like the numerous flocks for sacrifices at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so the ruined cities will be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
  22. Daniel 1:1יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם · to Jerusalem
    In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.
  23. Daniel 9:2יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם · of Jerusalem
    …in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.
  24. Daniel 9:7יְרֽוּשָׁלִַ֔ם · of Jerusalem
    To You, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but this day we are covered with shame—the men of Judah, the people of Jerusalem, and all Israel near and far, in all the countries to which You have driven us because of our unfaithfulness to You.
  25. Daniel 9:12בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · to Jerusalem
    You have carried out the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing upon us a great disaster. For under all of heaven, nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem.
  26. Daniel 9:16יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם · Jerusalem; יְרוּשָׁלִַ֧ם · Jerusalem
    O Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, I pray that Your anger and wrath may turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all around us.
  27. Daniel 9:25יְרֽוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ · Jerusalem
    Know and understand this: From the issuance of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Messiah, the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of distress.
  28. Joel 2:32וּבִירוּשָׁלִַ֜ם · and in Jerusalem
    And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has promised, among the remnant called by the LORD.
  29. Joel 3:1וִירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · and Jerusalem
    “Yes, in those days and at that time, when I restore Judah and Jerusalem from captivity,
  30. Joel 3:6יְרוּשָׁלִַ֔ם · and Jerusalem
    You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.
  31. Joel 3:16וּמִירוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ · from Jerusalem
    The LORD will roar from Zion and raise His voice from Jerusalem; heaven and earth will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for His people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.
  32. Joel 3:17יְרוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ · Jerusalem
    Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, My holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy, never again to be overrun by foreigners.
  33. Joel 3:20וִירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם · and Jerusalem
    But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
  34. Amos 1:2וּמִירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם · from Jerusalem
    He said: “The LORD roars from Zion and raises His voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the summit of Carmel withers.”
  35. Amos 2:5יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃פ · of Jerusalem
    So I will send fire upon Judah to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.”
  36. Obadiah 1:11יְרוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ · Jerusalem
    On the day you stood aloof while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gate and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were just like one of them.
  37. Obadiah 1:20יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם · from Jerusalem
    And the exiles of this host of the Israelites will possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath; and the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will possess the cities of the Negev.
  38. Micah 1:1וִירֽוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · and Jerusalem
    This is the word of the LORD that came to Micah the Moreshite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah—what he saw regarding Samaria and Jerusalem:
  39. Micah 1:5יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · Jerusalem
    All this is for the transgression of Jacob and the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?
  40. Micah 1:9יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · Jerusalem itself
    For her wound is incurable; it has reached even Judah; it has approached the gate of my people, as far as Jerusalem itself.
  41. Micah 1:12יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · of Jerusalem
    For the dwellers of Maroth pined for good, but calamity came down from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem.
  42. Micah 3:10וִירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם · and Jerusalem
    …who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity.
  43. Micah 3:12וִירוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ · Jerusalem
    Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.
  44. Micah 4:2מִירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · from Jerusalem
    And many nations will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways, so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
  45. Micah 4:8יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · of Jerusalem
    And you, O watchtower of the flock, O stronghold of the Daughter of Zion—the former dominion will be restored to you; sovereignty will come to the Daughter of Jerusalem.”
  46. Zephaniah 1:4יְרוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · in Jerusalem
    “I will stretch out My hand against Judah and against all who dwell in Jerusalem. I will cut off from this place every remnant of Baal, the names of the idolatrous and pagan priests—
  47. Zephaniah 1:12יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם · Jerusalem
    And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’
  48. Zephaniah 3:14יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · of Jerusalem
    Sing for joy, O Daughter of Zion; shout aloud, O Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, O Daughter of Jerusalem!
  49. Zephaniah 3:16לִירֽוּשָׁלִַ֖ם · to Jerusalem
    On that day they will say to Jerusalem: “Do not fear, O Zion; do not let your hands fall limp.