Jeb'usi (Heb. Yebusi'), a word used in the original of a place and its inhabitants.
1. "Jebusi" {''•0^1''j'r\ = the Jebusite ; Sept. 'If/Soi'ffni, 'Ie/Soiic, Vulg. Jebiis(t;us\ the name employed for the city of Jebus, only in the ancient document describing the landmarks and the to%\ms of the allotment of Judah and Benjamin (Josh, v'; 8; xviii, 16, 28). In the first and last place, the explanatorj' words, " which is Jerusa- lem," are added. In the first, however, our translators have given it as "the Jebusite." A parallel to this mode of designating the town by its inhabitants is found in this very list in Zemaraim (xviii, 22), Avim (ver. 23), Ophni (ver. 24), and Japhletite (xvi, 3), etc. —Smith.
2. "Jebusite" or "Jebusites," forms indiscriminately employed in the A. Vers., although in the original the
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name, whether applied to individuals or to the nation, is never found in the plural ; always singular. The full form is ipsia^ri ; but in a few places — viz. 2 Sam. v, 6 ; xxiv, 16, 18 ; 1 Chron. xxi, 18 only — it is " defectively'' written "^pn^il. Without tlie article, '^b'13"', it occurs in 2 Sam. v, 8 ; 1 Chron. xi, G ; Zecli. ix, 7. In the first two of these the lorce is much increased by removing the article introduced in the A. Vers., and reading " and smiteth a Jebusite." — Smith. See Jeijusitk.
Jeb'usite (Heb. Yebusi', "^013% Sept. 'liftovaaioc, but 'UjiovQ in Josh, xv, 8 ; xviii, 28, or 'ItfiovQ in Judg. xix, 11 ; 1 Chron. xi, 4; also 'It^iovaai in Josh, xviii, IG, and 'Itjiovai in Ezra ix, 1 ; A. V. " Jebnsi" in Josh, xviii, IG, 28), the name of the original inhabitants of Jebus, frequently mentioned (usually last in the list) amongst the seven Canaanitish nations doomed to de- struction (Gen. X, 16 ; xv, 21 ; Exod. iii, 8, 17 ; xiii, 5 ; xxiii, 23; xxxiii, 2; xxxiv, 11 ; Numb, xiii, 29; Deut. vii, 1 ; XX, 17 ; Josh, iii, 10 ; ix, 1 ; xi, 3 ; xii, 8 ; xxiv, 11 ; Judg. iii, 5 ; 1 Kings ix, 20 ; 1 Chron. i, U ; 2 Chron. viii, 7; Ezra ix, 1 ; Neh. ix, 8). They appear to have descended from a grandson of Ham (Gen. x, 16). " His place in the list is between Heth and the Amorites (Gen. X, 16 ; 1 Chron. i, 14), a position which the tribe main- tained long after (Numb, xiii, 29 ;" Josh, xi, 3) ; and the same connection is traceable in the words of Ezekiel (xvi, 3, 45), who addresses Jerusalem as the fruit of the union of an Amorite with a Hittite" (Smith). At the time of the arrival of the Israelites (see Jour. Sac. Lit. Oct. 1851, p. 167) they were found to be a considerable tribe on the west of Jordan (Josh, ix, 1), seated on one of the hills of Judah (some have wrongly inferred INIo- riah from 2 Chron. iii, 1, but in 2 Sam. v, 9 it is clearly identified with Zion), near the Hittites and Amorites (Numb, xiii, 30 ; Josh, xi, 3), where they had founded a city called J kul'S (Josh, xviii, 28 ; comp. xix, 10), prob- ably after the name of their progenitor, and established a royal form of government, being then ruled by Adoni- zedek (Josh, x, 1, 23). See SAi.Ejr. The}' seem to have been a warlike tribe ; and, although they were defeated with much slaughter, and Adoni-zedek, their king, slain by Joshua (Josh, x), and though a part of their citj' seems to have been afterwards taken, sacked, and burn- ed by the warriors of Judah (Judg. i, 8), yet they were not wholly subdued, but were able to retain at least their acropolis (Judg. i, 21), and were not entirely dispossessed of it till the time of David (2 Sam. v). Being situated on the border (Josh, xv, 8 ; xviii, 16), between Judah and Benjamin, to either of which it is indifferently as- signed (Josh. XV, 63 ; xviii, 28 ; Judg. i, 21), it was only at this late date secured to the actual territory of Da- vid's tribe (1 Chron. xi). He made it the capital of his kingdom instead of Hebron (Ewald, Isr. Gesch. ii, 583), but did not wholly expel the natives (1 Kings ix, 20). By that time the inveteracy of the enmity between the Hebrews aiTd such of the original inhabitants as re- mained in the land had ranch abated, and the rights of private property were respected by the conquerors. This we discover from the fact that the site on which the Temple afterwards stood belonged to a Jebusite named Araunah, from whom it was purchased by king David, who declined to accept it as a free gift from the owner (2 Sam. xxiv; 1 Chron. xxi). This afterwards became the site of Solomon's Temple (2 Chron. iii, 1) It appears that the Jebusites subsisted under his reign in the state of tributaries or slaves (2 Chron. viii. 7) and even so continued to the times of the return from Babylon (Ezraix, 1). See Jerusalem.
The name "Jebusite" is sometimes put for the city itself inhabited by them (i. q. "city of the Jebusites," Judg. xix, 11), as in Josh, xv, 8; xviii, IG; also poetical- ly, in later times, for its successor, Jerusalem (Zech. ix, 7). See Jebusi.