יְבוּסִי

Genesis 10:16 הַיְבוּסִי֙ the Jebusite[s]

the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

Genesis 15:21 הַיְבוּסִֽי׃ ס the Jebusite[s]

Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”

Exodus 3:8 וְהַיְבוּסִֽי׃ and the Jebusite[s]

I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Here: 'And the Jebusite.' The people of Jebus, later Jerusalem, which they held until David took it (2 Sam 5:6–9). The list ends at the city that would become the centre of Israel's worship.

Exodus 3:17 וְהַיְבוּסִ֑י and the Jebusite[s]

And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’

Here: The people of Jebus, that is Jerusalem, which David later captured (Josh 15:63; 2 Sam 5:6–9). For later hearers, naming them last points ahead to the future royal city.

Exodus 13:5 וְהַיְבוּסִ֗י and the Jebusite[s]

And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you shall keep this service in this month.

Here: The people of Jebus, the city that later became Jerusalem. David took it much later (2 Sam 5).

Exodus 23:23 וְהַיְבוּסִ֑י and the Jebusite[s]

For My angel will go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will annihilate them.

Exodus 33:2 וְהַיְבוּסִֽי׃ and the Jebusite[s]

And I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Here: "And the Jebusite." These are the people of Jebus/Jerusalem, which was not taken until David (2 Sam 5). Ending the list with them points the promise toward the future capital.

Exodus 34:11 וְהַיְבוּסִֽי׃ and the Jebusite[s]

Observe what I command you this day. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Here: 'And the Jebusite': the people of Jerusalem (Jebus), who held the city until David took it (2 Sam 5:6–9). The list ends at the future royal and temple city.

Numbers 13:29 וְהַיְבוּסִ֤י and the Jebusite[s]

The Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the Jordan.”

Deuteronomy 7:1 וְהַיְבוּסִ֔י and the Jebusite[s]

When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—

Here: 'And the Jebusite': the people of Jebus/Jerusalem, who held the city until David took it (2 Sam 5:6–9).

Deuteronomy 20:17 וְהַיְבוּסִ֑י and the Jebusite[s]

For you must devote them to complete destruction—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you,

Joshua 3:10 וְהַיְבוּסִֽי׃ and the Jebusite[s]

He continued, “This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that He will surely drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.

Here: The people of Jebus/Jerusalem. Josh 15:63 later admits Judah could not dispossess them, and the city was taken only under David (2 Sam 5:6–9).

Joshua 9:1 וְהַיְבוּסִֽי׃ and the Jebusite[s]

Now when news of this reached all the kings west of the Jordan—those in the hill country, the foothills, and all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon (the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites)—

Here: The people of Jebus/Jerusalem. Their king, Adoni-zedek, leads the counter-attack in chapter 10.

Joshua 11:3 וְהַיְבוּסִ֖י and the Jebusite[s]

to the Canaanites in the east and west; to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, and Jebusites in the hill country; and to the Hivites at the foot of Hermon in the land of Mizpah.

Here: 'And the Jebusite', the people later tied to Jebus/Jerusalem. That a southern people appears in a northern coalition shows how far the list reaches: all the highland peoples are being called up.

Joshua 12:8 וְהַיְבוּסִֽי׃ פ and the Jebusite[s]

the hill country, the foothills, the Arabah, the slopes, the wilderness, and the Negev—the lands of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites):

Joshua 15:8 הַיְבוּסִי֙ the Jebusite[s]

From there the border went up the Valley of Ben-hinnom along the southern slope of the Jebusites (that is, Jerusalem) and ascended to the top of the hill that faces the Valley of Hinnom on the west, at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim.

Here: A singular word standing for the whole group: 'the Jebusite' means the Jebusite people and their town. They were the Canaanite population holding Jerusalem at the time.

Joshua 15:63 הַיְבוּסִי֙ הַיְבוּסִ֜י the Jebusite[s]

But the descendants of Judah could not drive out the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. So to this day the Jebusites live there among the descendants of Judah.

Here: A singular word standing for the whole group: 'the Jebusite' means the Jebusite population, one of the peoples of Canaan listed in Deut 7:1 and Gen 10:16.

Joshua 18:16 הַיְבוּסִי֙ the Jebusite[s]

Then it went down to the foot of the hill that faces the Valley of Ben-hinnom at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim and ran down the Valley of Hinnom toward the southern slope of the Jebusites and downward to En-rogel.

Here: "The Jebusite" in the singular, meaning the Jebusite people or their city. Joshua 15:8 explains it: "that is, Jerusalem."

Joshua 18:28 וְהַיְבוּסִ֨י and the Jebusite

Zelah, Haeleph, Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath-jearim—fourteen cities, along with their villages. This was the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Benjamin.

Here: Literally 'the Jebusite', the name of a people used as the name of a place: 'the Jebusite (town)'. It names the city by the non-Israelite people who held it, the way 18:16 speaks of 'the shoulder of the Jebusite'.

Joshua 24:11 וְהַיְבוּסִ֑י and the Jebusite[s]

After this, you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The people of Jericho fought against you, as did the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I delivered them into your hand.

Judges 1:21 הַיְבוּסִי֙ הַיְבוּסִ֜י the Jebusite[s]

The Benjamites, however, failed to drive out the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. So to this day the Jebusites live there among the Benjamites.

Here: A singular noun used for the whole people, as Hebrew often does with group names: 'the Jebusite' means the Jebusite population. They were the pre-Israelite people who held Jerusalem.

Judges 3:5 וְהַיְבוּסִֽי׃ and the Jebusite[s]

Thus the Israelites continued to live among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Here: The people of Jebus, that is, Jerusalem. Judges 1:21 says they lived on in Jerusalem 'with the Benjaminites to this day', and in Judges 19:11–12 the city is still foreign. The last name in the list was a reminder that even the future capital had not been taken.

Judges 19:11 הַיְבוּסִ֥י the Jebusite[s]

When they were near Jebus and the day was almost gone, the servant said to his master, “Please, let us stop at this Jebusite city and spend the night here.”

2 Samuel 5:6 הַיְבֻסִ֖י the Jebusite[s]

Now the king and his men marched to Jerusalem against the Jebusites who inhabited the land. The Jebusites said to David: “You will never get in here. Even the blind and lame can repel you.” For they thought, “David cannot get in here.”

2 Samuel 5:8 יְבֻסִי֙ <of> a Jebusite

On that day he said, “Whoever attacks the Jebusites must use the water shaft to reach the lame and blind who are despised by David.” That is why it is said, “The blind and the lame will never enter the palace.”

Here: A singular standing for the whole group: 'a Jebusite', meaning the Jebusite people who had held Jerusalem since before Israel came into the land (Josh 15:63; Judg 1:21).

2 Samuel 24:16 הַיְבֻסִֽי׃ ס the Jebusite

But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

Here: One of the people who lived in Jerusalem before Israel did. The place where judgment stops belongs to a non-Israelite, and David will have to buy it.

2 Samuel 24:18 הַיְבֻסִֽי׃ the Jebusite

And that day Gad came to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

Here: He belongs to the people who held Jerusalem before David captured it (5:6–9). The site of Israel's future central sanctuary still belongs to a non-Israelite, so David will have to buy it (v.24).

1 Kings 9:20 וְהַיְבוּסִ֔י and the Jebusite[s]

As for all the people who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (the people who were not Israelites)—

1 Chronicles 1:14 הַיְבוּסִי֙ the Jebusite[s]

the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

1 Chronicles 11:4 הַיְבוּסִ֔י the Jebusite[s]

Then David and all the Israelites marched to Jerusalem (that is, Jebus), where the Jebusites inhabited the land.

1 Chronicles 11:6 יְבוּסִי֙ <of> a Jebusite

Now David had said, “Whoever is the first to strike down a Jebusite will become chief commander.” And Joab son of Zeruiah went up first, and he became the chief.

1 Chronicles 21:15 הַיְבוּסִֽי׃ ס the Jebusite

Then God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem, but as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented from the calamity, and He said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Here: A member of the people who held Jerusalem before David captured it (11:4–5). The future holy site is still in foreign private hands. David will have to buy it (vv. 22–25).

1 Chronicles 21:18 הַיְבֻסִֽי׃ the Jebusite

Then the angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 21:28 הַיְבוּסִ֑י the Jebusite

At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he offered sacrifices there.

2 Chronicles 3:1 הַיְבוּסִֽי׃ the Jebusite

Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Here: One of the pre-Israelite people of Jerusalem. The holiest site in Israel had been a non-Israelite's farm property, and David bought it legally at full price (1 Chr 21:24–25).

2 Chronicles 8:7 וְהַיְבוּסִ֔י and the Jebusite[s]

As for all the people who remained of the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (these people were not Israelites)—

Ezra 9:1 הַיְבוּסִ֗י the Jebusite[s]

After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the surrounding peoples whose abominations are like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.

Here: The inhabitants of Jerusalem before David (2 Samuel 5:6–9). They are long gone, but naming them in a scene set in Jerusalem is pointed.

Nehemiah 9:8 וְהַיְבוּסִ֥י and the Jebusite[s]

You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites—to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.

Here: The pre-Israelite inhabitants of Jerusalem, the city whose walls Nehemiah has just rebuilt.

Zechariah 9:7 כִּיבוּסִֽי׃ [will be] like a Jebusite

I will remove the blood from their mouths and the abominations from between their teeth. Then they too will become a remnant for our God; they will become like a clan in Judah, and Ekron will be like the Jebusites.