יבוס

Probably from the root ב־ו־ס (b-w-s), forming words relating to treading and trampling.

Possibly cognate with Akkadian Yabusu.

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /je.ˈvus/
• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /jə.ˈvuːs/
• (Biblical Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ja.ˈbuːs/, [jə.ˈβuːs]
• (Ashkenazi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /jə.ˈvus/, [jə.ˈviːs]
• (Persian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /je.ˈvus/
• (Yemenite Hebrew) IPA^(key): /jə.ˈvus/, [jæ.ˈvus], [jæ.ˈbus]
• (Iraqi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /je.ˈbus/
• (Sephardi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /je.ˈvus/

יְבוּס • (yᵊḇûs, y'vús) f

1. Jebus, a city mentioned in the Tanach traditionally identified as Jerusalem prior to the conquest by Joshua and David
   • Tanach, 1 Chronicles 11:4, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     וַיֵּ֨לֶךְ דָּוִ֧יד וְכׇל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל יְרוּשָׁלַ֖͏ִם הִ֣יא יְב֑וּס וְשָׁם֙ הַיְבוּסִ֔י יֹשְׁבֵ֖י הָאָֽרֶץ׃

     va'yelékh Davíd v'khól Yisra'él Yerushaláyim hi Y'vús v'shám haY'vusí yoshvéi ha'árets.
     wayyēléḵ dāwī́ḏ wəḵōl-yiśrāʾḗl yərūšāláyim hī yəḇūs wəšām hayəḇūsī́ yōšḇḗ hāʾā́reṣ.

     David and all Israel set out for Jerusalem, that is Jebus, where the Jebusite inhabitants of the land lived.

• יְבוּסִי (y'vusí, “Jebusite”)

• Ancient Greek: Ἰεβούς (Ieboús)
  • Latin: Iebus
    • English: Jebus

• H2982 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible