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STRONGS NUMBER H8121

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Word Summary
shemesh: sun
Original Word: שֶׁמֶשׁ
Transliteration: shemesh
Phonetic Spelling: (sheh'-mesh)
Part of Speech: Noun
Short Definition: sun
Meaning: the sun, the east, a ray, a notched battlement
Strong's Concordance
east sideward, sun rising, westward, window

From an unused root meaning to be brilliant; the sun; by implication, the east; figuratively, a ray, i.e. (arch.) A notched battlement -- + east side(-ward), sun ((rising)), + west(-ward), window. See also Beyth Shemesh.

see HEBREW Beyth Shemesh

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H8121. shemesh

שֶׁ֫מֶשׁ‎133 noun feminineJudges 19:14

and masculineGenesis 19:23 (AlbrZAW xv (1895), 324) sun; — absolute ׳שׁ‎ Joshua 10:12 +, שָׁ֑מֶשׁ‎ Judges 20:43 +; suffix שִׁמְשֵׁךְ‎ Isaiah 60:20, שִׁמְשָׁךְ‎ Jeremiah 15:9; plural suffix שִׁמְשֹׁתַ֫יִךְ‎ Isaiah 54:12; —

1 sun, Genesis 37:9 (E; + moon, stars); marking time: as rising (verb זָרַת‎ q. v.) Exodus 22:2 (E) + 8 t. + Malachi 3:20 (figurative ׳שׁ צְדָקָה‎, of reward of the faithful, with wings, i.e. rays ? Now GASm; or winged sun-disc [compare We] ?); verb יְצָא‎ Genesis 19:23 (J), Isaiah 13:10; Judges 5:31 (simile of splendour; see יְצָא‎

1f); setting (verb בּוֺא‎) Genesis 15:17 (J), Amos 8:9 19t., + הַשּׁ ׳וַיְהִי לָבוֺא‎ Genesis 15:12 (JE), ׳שׁ מְבוֺאוֺ יְדַע‎ Psalm 104:19 (see בּוֺא‎ 1i, מָבוֺא‎

2); as giving daylight Isaiah 60:9; hot 1 Samuel 11:9; Nehemiah 7:3; Exodus 16:21 (P), compare Isaiah 49:10; Jonah 4:8; Psalm 121:6; as ripening crops Deuteronomy 33:14 (poem), compare (figurative) Job 8:16, tanning the face Song of Solomon 1:6; standing still at Joshua's word Joshua 10:12.13 a (poem in J; "" יָרֵחַ‎), 10:13 b (J), compare Habakkuk 3:11 (+ יָרֵךְַ‎); casting shadow (on dial), בַּשּׁ אָחָז בְמַעֲלוֺת ׳יָָֽרְדָה‎ Isaiah 38:8, הַשּׁ ׳וַתָּשָׁב‎ 38:8; set in sky by ׳י‎ Jeremiah 31:25; Psalm 19:5; 74:16; 136:8, enduring 72:5; 72:17 (compare עִם‎ 1g; [מָּנֶה‎]

11. 4 a (e), p. 817), also Psalm 89:37; personified, called to praise ׳י‎ 148:3 (+ יָרֵךְַ‎); to be darkened by ׳י‎s judgment, Ezekiel 32:7; Joel 2:10; 3:4; Joel 4:15 (compare Amos 8:9 above, Micah 3:6). 2

of direction: הַשּׁ ׳מִמִּוְרַח‎ Numbers 21:11 (E) toward sun-rise, = East, compare Deuteronomy 4:41, 47 16t. (see מִוְרָךְ‎ p. 280); הַשּׁ ׳מְבוֺא‎ 11:30 3t. (see מָבוֺא‎ 2, p. 99).

3

object of worship (usually + moon, stars, etc.) 2 Kings 23:5; Jeremiah 8:2; Ezekiel 8:16; Deuteronomy 4:19; horses given to ׳שׁ‎ 2 Kings 23:11, השּׁ ׳מַרְכְּבוֺת‎ 23:11. — See also שׁ ׳בֵּית‎ p. 112:b.

4 other phrase:

a. חַשּׁ ׳נֶגֶד‎, i.e. openly, publicly, 2 Samuel 12:12; Numbers 25:4 (P), so חַשּׁ ׳לְעֵינֵי‎ 2 Samuel 12:11.

b. figurative of living, שׁ ׳חָזָה‎ Psalm 58:9, שׁ ׳רָאָה‎ Exodus 6:5; 7:11; 11:7, opposed to הַשׁ ׳תֶּחְשַׁךְ‎ 12:2.

c. הַשּׁ ׳תַּחַת‎, i. e. on the earth, Ecclesiastes 1:3 28t. Ecclesiastes (compare Greek ὐφ’ ἠλίῳ, KueOnd. iii. 196; Ein1. iii. 192).

5 pinnacle, as glittering, shining, plural Isaiah 54:12 thy pinnacles, battlements (of Zion), so perhaps singular ׳שׁ י ׳וּמָנֵן אֱםהִים‎ Psalm 84:12 battlement and shield is ׳י ׳א‎ (Gr Bae Du Buhl; most sun, and so Thes De Che SS; Hup-Now hesitates).

I. שׁמשׁ‎ (√ of following; Biblical Hebrew שֶׁ֫מֶשׁ שׁמשׁ,‎).





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