Shemesh שֶׁ֫מֶשׁ

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Shemesh
שֶׁ֫מֶשׁ
Transliterationshemesh
Strong's numberH8121
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechnoun
Glosssun
Occurrences134 in 127 verses
Most frequent inEcclesiastes (32)

Shemesh (Hebrew שֶׁ֫מֶשׁ, Strong's H8121) is a Hebrew noun meaning “sun”. It occurs 134 times in 127 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) sun
1a) sun
1b) sunrise, sun-rising, east, sun-setting, west (of direction)
1c) sun (as object of illicit worship)
1d) openly, publicly (in other phrases)
1e) pinnacles, battlements, shields (as glittering or shining)

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVsun (118), sunrising (1), windows (1), shall the sun (1)
BSBsun (82), sunset (3), time the sun (2), broad daylight (2), o sun (2), east (2), this time the sun (1), east side (1), sunrise (1), sunshine (1), long as the sun (1), is a sun (1), and 9 other renderings

Verses

Every verse with Shemesh, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

Judges

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Kings

2 Chronicles

Nehemiah

Job

Psalms

Ecclesiastes

Song of Solomon

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Joel

Amos

Jonah

Micah

Nahum

Habakkuk

Zechariah

Malachi

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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