Strong's #2414: Hierosoluma (pronounced hee-er-os-ol'-oo-mah)
of Hebrew origin (3389); Hierosolyma (i.e. Jerushalaim}, the capitol of Palestine:--Jerusalem. Compare 2419.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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Hierosoluma
Jerusalem = "set ye double peace"
1) denotes either the city itself or the inhabitants
2) "the Jerusalem that now is" , with its present religious institutions, i.e. the Mosaic system, so designated from its primary external location
3) "Jerusalem that is above" , that is existing in heaven, according to the pattern of which the earthly Jerusalem was supposed to be built
3a) metaphorically "the City of God founded by Christ" , now wearing the form of the church, but after Christ' s return to put on the form of the perfected Messianic kingdom
4) "the heavenly Jerusalem" , that is the heavenly abode of God, Christ, the angels, saints of the Old and New Testament periods and those Christians that are alive at Christ' s return
5) "the New Jerusalem" , a splendid visible city to be let down from heaven after the renovation of the world, the future abode of the blessed
Part of Speech: noun proper locative
Relation: of Hebrew origin H3389
Citing in TDNT: 7:292, 1028
Usage:
This word is used 59 times:
Acts 25:15: "when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the"
Acts 25:24: "with me, both at Jerusalem, and also here, crying that he"
Acts 26:4: "among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the"
Acts 26:10: "I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints"
Acts 26:20: "of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the"
Acts 28:17: "the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from"
Galatians 1:17: "Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me;"
Galatians 1:18: "years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode"
Galatians 2:1: "I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with"
