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•JEALOUSY suspicion of a wife’s purity, one of the strongest passions (Numbers 5:14; Proverbs 6:34; Cant. 8:6); also an intense interest for another’s honour or prosperity (Psalm 79:5; 1 Corinthians 10:22; Zechariah 1:14).‌‌‌

•JEALOUSY, IMAGE OF an idolatrous object, seen in vision by Ezekiel (Ezekiel 8:3, 5), which stood in the priests’ or inner court of the temple. Probably identical with the statue of Astarte (2 Kings 21:7).

•JEALOUSY OFFERING the name of the offering the husband was to bring when he charged his wife with adultery (Numbers 5:11-15).

•JEALOUSY, WATERS OF water which the suspected wife was required to drink, so that the result might prove her guilt or innocence (Numbers 5:12-17, 27). We have no record of this form of trial having been actually resorted to.

•JEARIM forests, a mountain on the border of Judah (Joshua 15:10).

•JEBUS trodden hard, or fastness, or “the waterless hill”, the name of the Canaanitish city which stood on Mount Zion (Joshua 15:8; 18:16, 28). It is identified with Jerusalem (q.v.) in Judges 19:10, and with the castle or city of David (1 Chronicles 11:4,5). It was a place of great natural strength, and its capture was one of David’s most brilliant achievements (2 Samuel 5:8).

•JEBUSITES the name of the original inhabitants of Jebus, mentioned frequently among the seven nations doomed to destruction (Genesis 10:16; 15:21; Exodus 3:8, 17; 13:5, etc.). At the time of the arrival of the Israelites in Palestine they were ruled by Adonizedek (Joshua 10:1, 23). They were defeated by Joshua, and their king was slain; but they were not entirely driven out of Jebus till the time of David, who made it the capital of his kingdom instead of Hebron. The site on which the temple was afterwards

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