Word study
Jerusalem
2 Hebrew and 3 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “jerusalem”. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
At a glance
How often each original word is translated “Jerusalem” or one of its forms.
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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- יְרוּשָׁלִַ͏ם YerûshâlaimJerusalemtranslated this way 637 times of its 638 uses · Strong’s H3389Noun · Translated: Jerusalem 632, common in jerusalem 3, Jerusalem's 1, people of jerusalem 1Full study and all 600 verses →
Joshua 10:1 Now Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai and devoted it to destruction — doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king — and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living near them.
Judges 1:7 Then Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table. As I have done to them, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.
- יְרוּשָׁלֵם YerûshâlêmJerusalemtranslated this way 26 times of its 26 uses · Strong’s H3390Noun · Translated: Jerusalem 26Full study and all 25 verses →
Ezra 4:8 Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote the letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows:
Daniel 5:2 Under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar gave orders to bring in the gold and silver vessels that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king could drink from them, along with his nobles, his wives, and his concubines.
Greek words (New Testament)
- Ἱερουσαλήμ HierousalḗmJerusalemtranslated this way 75 times of its 75 uses · Strong’s G2419Noun · Translated: Jerusalem 75Full study and all 73 verses →
Matthew 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
Luke 2:25 Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
- Ἱεροσόλυμα HierosólymaJerusalemtranslated this way 63 times of its 63 uses · Strong’s G2414Noun · Translated: Jerusalem 63Full study and all 63 verses →
Matthew 2:1 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem,
Mark 3:8 Jerusalem, Idumea, the region beyond the Jordan, and the vicinity of Tyre and Sidon. The large crowd came to Him when they heard what great things He was doing.
- Ἱεροσολυμίτης Hierosolymítēsan inhabitant of Jerusalemtranslated this way 2 times of its 2 uses · Strong’s G2415Noun · Translated: Jerusalem 2Full study and all 2 verses →
Mark 1:5 People went out to him from all of Jerusalem and the countryside of Judea. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
John 7:25 Then some of the people of Jerusalem began to say, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?
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What the Bible says about Jerusalem: passages by topic →
Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.