Jebus
je'-bus (yebhuc; Iebous): In Jdg 19:10,11, "Jebus (the same is
Jerusalem)"; 1 Ch 11:4,5, "Jerusalem (the same is Jebus)." It
was once thought that this was the first name of Jerusalem, as
indeed might be suggested by the Biblical references, but it
is now known from the Tell el-Amarna Letters that Urusa-lem
was a name used centuries before the...
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(threshing-floor), one of the names of Jerusalem, the city of
the Jebusites, are called JEBUSI.
Jos 15:8; 18:16,28; Jud 19:10,11; 1Ch 11:4,5
[JERUSALEM]...
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trodden hard, or fastness, or "the waterless hill", the name
of
the Canaanitish city which stood on Mount Zion (Josh.
15:8;
18:16, 28). It is identified with Jerusalem (q.v.) in
Judg.
19:10, and with the castle or city of David (1 Chr.
11:4,5). It
was a place of great natural strength, and its capture
was one
of David's most brilliant ach...
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And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not
come hither. Nevertheless David took the castle of Zion, which
[is] the city of David....
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[And] when they [were] by Jebus, the day was far spent; and
the servant said unto his master, Come, I pray thee, and let
us turn in into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it....
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But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and
departed, and came over against Jebus, which [is] Jerusalem;
and [there were] with him two asses saddled, his concubine
also [was] with him....
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And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which [is] Jebus;
where the Jebusites [were], the inhabitants of the land....
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