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title: יְבוּסִי — Jebusite · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יְבוּסִי (2983), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 41 times: Jebusite. BDB 1906: adj.gent. Jebusite, Jebusites. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יְבוּסִי

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«יְבוּסִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Jebusite** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 41 times · **Key:** 2983 · **BDB:** יְבוּסִי

### Glosses

Jebusite\[s\] (28); Jebusite (7); the.Jebusite\[s\] (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Jebusite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2983/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.gent. Jebusite, Jebusites [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2983/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. Jebusite, Jebusites, sg. אורנה הַיְבֻסִי 2 S 24:16, 18 cf. 1 Ch 21:15, 18, 28 2 Ch 3:1; as subst. a Jebusite Zc 9:7; usually c. art. הַי׳ coll. the Jebusites, in hist. statement Gn 10:16 (J) = 1 Ch 1:14 Nu 13:29 (E) Jos 9:1; 11:3; 12:8; 24:11 (all D) Ju 3:5 Ne 9:8, all in list of Canaanitish peoples; so also 1 K 9:20 = 2 Ch 8:7, where remnant of these peoples referred to; also Ezr 9:1, which seems to shew that this list had become a standing expression for early inhabitants; cf. further in promises (JED) Gn 15:21 Ex 3:8, 17; 13:5; 23:23; 33:2; 34:11 Dt 7:1; 20:17; Jos 3:10; specif. defined as inhabitants of Jebus-Jerusalem Jos 15:63(×2) (J) Ju 1:21(×2) 2 S 5:6, 8 (on which cf. Dr) 1 Ch 11:6 (called also יוֹשֵׁב הָאָרֶץ 2 S 5:6 \& ישְׁבֵי הָאָרֶץ 1 Ch 11:4); v. also עִיר הַיְבוּסִי הַזֹּאת Ju 19:11; whence Jerusalem, Hex only P, Jos 15:8 גֵּי בֶן־הִנֹּם אֶל־כֶּתֶף היבוסי מִנֶּגֶב הִיא יְרוּשָׁלָ֑םִ, cf. 18:16; 18:28 וְהַיְבוּסִי הִיא יְרוּשָׁלַםִ.—Cf. כנען.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 39 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יְבוּסִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2983/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 10:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.16/)

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וְאֶת־הַיְבוּסִי֙ וְאֶת־הָ֣אֱמֹרִ֔י וְאֵ֖ת הַגִּרְגָּשִֽׁי׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the Jebusite\[s\] and (et) the Amorite\[s\] and (et) the Girgashite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite;

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[1 Chronicles 1:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.14/)

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וְאֶת־הַיְבוּסִי֙ וְאֶת־הָ֣אֱמֹרִ֔י וְאֵ֖ת הַגִּרְגָּשִֽׁי׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the Jebusite\[s\] and (et) the Amorite\[s\] and (et) the Girgashite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite;

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