jerusalem

Definition of jerusalem in English English dictionary: Ancient city of Palestine and the current capital of Israel; a holy city for Judaism (Temple of Solomon and the capital of the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judeah), Christianity (Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection), and Islam (Muhammad’s ascension to heaven); {i} capital city of Israel, holy city to many religions; a city in Israel, which is of great historical importance to Jews, Christians, and Muslims. It has many important places for all these religions, such as the Wailing Wall, the Mount of Olives, and the Dome of the Rock, an ancient and very holy Muslim building. a hymn (=a song of praise to God) based on a poem by William Blake, which English people sometimes sing on patriotic occasions. Hebrew Yerushalayim Arabic Al-Quds City (pop., 1999 est.: 633,700), capital of Israel (see below). Located in the heart of historic Palestine, it is nestled between the West Bank and Israel. The Old City is a typical, walled Middle Eastern enclosure; the modern city is an urban agglomeration of high-rises and housing complexes. It is holy to Judaism as the site of the Temple of Jerusalem, to Christianity because of its association with Jesus, and to Islam because of its connection with the Mirj (the Prophet Muhammad's ascension to Heaven). Jewish shrines include the Western Wall; Islamic holy places include the Dome of the Rock. In 1000 BC David made it the capital of Israel. Razed by the Babylonians in the 6th century BC, it thereafter enjoyed only brief periods of independence. The Romans devastated it in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD, banishing the population. From 637 it was ruled by various Muslim dynasties, except for short periods during the Crusades. Rule by the Ottoman Empire ended in 1917, and the city became the capital of the British mandate of Palestine. It was thereafter the subject of competing Zionist and Palestinian national aspirations. Israel claimed the city as its capital after the Arab-Israeli War in 1948 and took the entire city during the Six-Day War of 1967. Its status as Israel's capital has remained a point of contention: official recognition by the international community has largely been withheld pending final settlement of territorial rights. Cyril of Jerusalem Saint Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem Council of Jerusalem Temple of Jerusalem artichoke; Ancient city of Palestine and the current capital of Israel; a holy city for Judaism (Temple of Solomon and the capital of the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judeah), Christianity (Christ's crucifixion and resurrection), and Islam (Muhammad's ascension to heaven); (Micah 1: 1) Capital of Judah, the southern kingdom of Israel; The historic capital of Israel, Jerusalem is home to holy places of Jews, Christians and Muslims The 1947 United Nations Partition plan for Palestine designated Jerusalem as an international city, but after Israel's War of Independence in 1948, Israel was left in control of western Jerusalem and Jordan in control of eastern Jerusalem, including the Old City For 19 years Jews were prohibited from visiting the Western Wall, the holiest site in Judaism Eastern Jerusalem was captured during the 1967 War, the city was reunited, restored and declared the official capital of the State of Israel Under Israeli rule since 1967, Jerusalem's holy sites have remained open to all faiths and nationalities The Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles of September 13, 1993, stipulates that discussion of sovereignty over Jerusalem be left for the "final-status" talks; The political and religious capital of Israel when it was united, then of the southern kingdom of Judah; David captured Jebus and made it his capital city, the City of David; Mt Zion is the ridge in Jerusalem on which the royal palace and temple were built; Jerusalem is where Jesus/Joshua was crucified and resurrected See Chapter 8; Israel's capital city It was ruled by Melchizedec in the time of Abraham (4000 years ago) King David captured it for his capital city about 3000 years ago His son, Solomon built the famous Temple there It was destroyed by the Babylonians, rebuilt by the Jews some time later, but then destroyed again by the Romans in 70 AD; Hebrew Yerushalayim The capital of Israel since it was taken from the Jebusites by King David (2 Samuel 5: 6-10); capital and largest city of the modern state of Israel; a holy city for Jews and Christians and Muslims; was the capital of an ancient kingdom; Capital of Israel; The chief city of Palestine, intimately associated with the glory of the Jewish nation, and the life and death of Jesus Christ; Holy City; eternal city
Jerusalem artichoke: the tuber of this plant, eaten as a vegetable; the sunchoke
Jerusalem artichoke: a variety of sunflower, Helianthus tuberosus, native to North America, having yellow flower heads and edible tubers
Jerusalem cricket: A large, flightless insect of the genus Stenopelmatus, native to the western United States and parts of Mexico — not a true cricket
Jerusalem crickets: plural form of Jerusalem cricket
Jerusalem syndrome: A group of mental phenomena involving religious delusion or obsession relating to the city of Jerusalem
Jerusalem artichoke: (Botanik, Bitkibilim) Sunflower tuber eaten raw or boiled or sliced thin and fried as Saratoga chips, sunchoke, sunroot
Jerusalem Bible: an English translation of the Bible made by Roman Catholic scholars in the 1960s
Jerusalem Day: Israeli holiday celebrating the liberation of Jerusalem
Jerusalem Post: English language newspaper in Israel
Jerusalem Report: monthly magazine that covers issues concerning Judaism Israel and the Middle East (published in Israel)
Jerusalem Talmud: Talmud written in Jerusalem (as opposed to the Babylonian Talmud)
Jerusalem artichoke: Jerusalem artichokes are small, yellowish-white vegetables that grow underground and look like potatoes. an artichoke. Sunflower (Helianthus tuberosus) native to North America and grown for its edible tubers. The aboveground part of the plant is a coarse, usually multibranched, frost-tender perennial, 7-10 ft (2-3 m) tall. The numerous showy flower heads have yellow ray flowers and yellow, brownish, or purplish disk flowers. The underground tubers vary in shape, size, and colour. Jerusalem artichoke is popular as a cooked vegetable in Europe and has long been cultivated in France as livestock feed. In the U.S. it is rarely cultivated
Jerusalem cherry: An Old World ornamental shrub (Solanum pseudocapsicum) having inedible scarlet or yellow fruit and grown as a houseplant
Jerusalem pine: type of common pine tree
Jerusalem the capital of Israel: city which is the modern and historic capital of the State of Israel
Jerusalem thorn: A spiny tropical American tree (Parkinsonia aculeata) having clusters of yellow flowers, green branches, and bipinnately compound leaves
jerusalem artichoke: This vegetable is not an artichoke and its name has nothing to do with Jerusalem This member of the sunflower family is also known as a "sunchoke" and has a flesh that is nutty, sweet, and crunchy
jerusalem artichoke: Knobby root (tuber) which keeps well under refrigeration; they discolor after peeling, so dip them in lemon water as the flesh is exposed They have a very firm flesh and a flavor reminiscent of globe artichokes These are used as a vegetable, in soups, or cooked and served in salads
jerusalem artichoke: a bumpy brown-skinned tuber in the sunflower family
jerusalem artichoke: a type of root vegetable that looks like ginger
jerusalem artichoke: sunflower tuber eaten raw or boiled or sliced thin and fried as Saratoga chips
jerusalem artichoke: A tuber, also called sunchoke, with a very firm flesh and a flavor reminiscent of globe artichokes These are used as a vegetable, in soups, or cooked and served in salads
jerusalem artichoke: edible tuber of the Jerusalem artichoke
jerusalem artichoke: sunflower tuber eaten raw or boiled or sliced thin and fried as Saratoga chips tall perennial with hairy stems and leaves; widely cultivated for its large irregular edible tubers edible tuber of the Jerusalem artichoke
jerusalem artichoke: tall perennial with hairy stems and leaves; widely cultivated for its large irregular edible tubers
jerusalem cherry: small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit
jerusalem cross: a cross with equal arms, each terminating in a small crossbar
jerusalem oak: Eurasian aromatic oak-leaved goosefoot with many yellow-green flowers; naturalized North America
jerusalem sage: a spreading subshrub of Mediterranean regions cultivated for dense axillary whorls of purple or yellow flowers
jerusalem thorn: large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States
jerusalem warriors: ethnic Turkish Sunni terrorists who are linked with the Turkish Hizballah; killed a United States Air Force sergeant in 1991
Temple in Jerusalem: A particular building complex once in Jerusalem, then a center of religious life
Beitar Jerusalem: Jerusalem soccer club
Council of Jerusalem: Conference of the Christian Apostles at Jerusalem AD 50, which decreed that Gentile Christians did not have to observe the Mosaic law of the Jews. It was occasioned by the controversy over whether circumcision was necessary for Gentile converts to Christianity. Led by Sts. Peter the Apostle and James, the council decided the issue in favor of St. Paul and the Gentile Christians, thus helping to separate early Christianity from Judaism
East Jerusalem: eastern section of the city of Jerusalem
Greater Jerusalem: city of Jerusalem including all of the surrounding suburbs and developments
Hadassah-University Hospital in Jerusalem's Ein Kerem: hospital located in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ein Kerem
Hapoel Jerusalem: sports team based in Jerusalem
Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Independent university in Jerusalem, Israel, founded in 1925. The foremost university in Israel, it attracts many Jewish students from abroad; Arab students also attend. It has faculties of humanities, science, social science, law, agriculture, dentistry, and medicine; schools of education, social work, pharmacy, home economics, and applied science and technology; and a graduate library school
Hebrew University of Jerusalem: major university in Israel (located on two separate Jerusalem campuses)
New Jerusalem: a Christian name for Heaven
Old City of Jerusalem: eastern section of the Israeli capital city of Jerusalem that is surrounded by a wall
Saint Cyril of Jerusalem: born 315, Jerusalem died 386?, Jerusalem; feast day March 18 Early leader of the Christian church. He became bishop of Jerusalem 350. He was exiled three times by the Arians but was suspected by the strictly orthodox many years later, at the Council of Constantinople (381), for his association with moderate Arians. He anticipated the doctrine of transubstantiation in his writings and promoted Jerusalem as a pilgrimage centre. He was named a Doctor of the Church in 1883
Temple of Jerusalem: All that remains is part of the Western Wall, a site of pilgrimage. The Temple Mount is now occupied by a Muslim mosque, Al-Aq, and the Dome of the Rock
Temple of Jerusalem: Either of two temples that were at the centre of worship and national identity in ancient Israel. When David captured Jerusalem, he moved the Ark of the Covenant there. As the site for a temple, he selected Mount Moriah, or the Temple Mount, where it was believed that Abraham had built his altar to sacrifice Isaac. The First Temple was constructed under David's son Solomon and was completed in 957 BC. It contained three rooms: a vestibule, the main room for religious services, and the Holy of Holies. From the time of Josiah, it was designated as the only place for sacrifice in Judah. It was destroyed during the Babylonian conquest in 586 BC. When the Jews returned from exile in 538, they built the Second Temple (finished 515). Its desecration by Antiochus IV in 167 BC set off the Maccabees' revolt, after which it was cleansed and rededicated. In 54 BC Marcus Licinius Crassus plundered the Temple. It was rebuilt and enlarged by Herod the Great; construction lasted 46 years. The Jewish rebellion in AD 66 led to its destruction by Roman legions in AD
future of Jerusalem and the Golan Heights: outcome of the conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbors concerning sovereignty over Jerusalem and the Golan Heights
municipality of Jerusalem: city of Jerusalem
next year in Jerusalem!: may we all celebrate the holiday next year in Jerusalem! (Jewish blessing said at the end of the Haggadah reading during Passover and at the end of prayers)
sell out Jerusalem: abandon Jerusalem, give up Jerusalem
status of Jerusalem: determination of factors that will govern different areas of Jerusalem and the method of government
temple of jerusalem: any of three successive temples in Jerusalem that served as the primary center for Jewish worship; the first temple contained the Ark of the Covenant and was built by Solomon in the 10th century BC and destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC; the second was built in 515 BC and the third was an enlargement by Herod the Great in 20 BC that was destroyed by the Romans during a Jewish revolt in AD 70; all that remains is the Wailing Wall
the united city of Jerusalem: Israel's capital Jerusalem following the six day war in 1967, the entire city of Jerusalem including East Jerusalem
united Jerusalem: Jerusalem as one complete city, undivided Jerusalem

jerusalem

Hyphenation

Je·ru·sa·lem

Turkish pronunciation

cırusılım

Synonyms

al-quds

Pronunciation

/ʤərˈo͞osələm/ /ʤɜrˈuːsələm/

Etymology

() From Late Latin Ierusalem, Hierusalem, from Latin Hierosolyma, from Ancient Greek Ἰερουσαλήμ (Ierousalēm), from Hebrew Yĕrūshālaim, from Western Semitic Urušalimmi (attested in Ancient Egyptian), compound of Semitic *uru 'house, town' and *salim either 'peace' or 'Shalim, Canaanite goddess of twilight'.