Jebusi
Jebusi [1]
(Heb. Yebusi'), a word used in the original of a place and its inhabitants.
1. "Jebusi" ( הִיְּבוּסַר=theJebusite; Sept. Ι᾿εβουσαί, Ι᾿εβοῦς, Vulg. Jebusceus), the name employed for the city of JEBUS, only in the ancient document describing the landmarks and the towns of the allotment of Judah and Benjamin ( Joshua 15:8; Joshua 18:16; Joshua 18:28). In the first and last place, the explanatory words, " ‘ which is Jerusalem," 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 ( Joshua 18:22), Avim ( Joshua 18:23), Ophni ( Joshua 18:24), and Japhletite (jos 16:3), etc.
2. "Jebusite" or "Jebusites," forms indiscriminately employed in the A.Vers., although in the original the name, whether applied to individuals or to thenation, is never found in the plural; always singular. The full form is הִיְּבוּסַי; but in a few places viz. 2 Samuel 5, 6; 2 Samuel 24:16; 2 Samuel 24:18; 1 Chronicles 21:18 only - it is "defectively" written הִיְבֻסַי . Without the article, יְבוּסַי it occurs in 2 Samuel 5:8; 1 Chronicles 11:6; Zechariah 9:7. In the first two of these the force is much increased by removing the article introduced in- the A. Vers., and reading "and smiteth a Jebusite." See JEBUSITE
