Jebusite
//ˈd͡ʒɛb.(j)əˌsaɪt// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A member of a Canaanite tribe said to have inhabited Jerusalem prior to its conquest by Joshua or King David.
Example
More examples"And knowing their sorrow, I am come down to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land into a good and spacious land, into a land that floweth with milk and honey, to the places of the Canaanite, and Hethite, and Amorrhite, and Pherezite, and Hevite, and Jebusite."
Etymology
From Jebus + -ite, from the prior name of Jerusalem according to the Book of Kings.
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