Dict: easton - Jebus

easton:

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