- Original: שׁמשׁ
- Transliteration: Shemesh
- Phonetic: sheh'-mesh
- Definition:
1. sun
a. sun
b. sunrise, sun-rising, east, sun-setting, west (of direction)
c. sun (as object of illicit worship)
d. openly, publicly (in other phrases)
e. pinnacles, battlements, shields (as glittering or shining)
- Origin: from an unused root meaning to be brilliant
- TWOT entry: 2417a
- Part(s) of speech: Noun
- Strong's: From an unused root meaning to be brilliant; the sun; by implication the east; figuratively a ray that is (architecturally) a notched battlement: - + east side (-ward) sun ([rising]) + west (-ward) window. See also
H1053 .
Total KJV Occurrences: 134
• eastward, 1
2 Kings 10:33
• side, 2
Judges 11:18;
Judges 21:19
• sun, 119
Genesis 15:12;
Genesis 15:17;
Genesis 19:23;
Genesis 28:11;
Genesis 32:31;
Genesis 37:9;
Exodus 16:21;
Exodus 17:12;
Exodus 22:3;
Exodus 22:26;
Leviticus 22:7;
Numbers 25:4;
Deuteronomy 4:19;
Deuteronomy 11:30;
Deuteronomy 16:6;
Deuteronomy 17:3;
Deuteronomy 23:11;
Deuteronomy 24:13;
Deuteronomy 24:15;
Deuteronomy 33:14;
Joshua 1:4;
Joshua 8:29;
Joshua 10:12;
Joshua 10:13(2);
Joshua 10:27;
Joshua 12:1;
Judges 5:31;
Judges 9:33;
Judges 19:14;
1 Samuel 11:9;
2 Samuel 2:24;
2 Samuel 3:35;
2 Samuel 12:11;
2 Samuel 12:12;
2 Samuel 23:4;
1 Kings 22:36;
2 Kings 3:22;
2 Kings 23:5;
2 Kings 23:11(2);
2 Chronicles 18:34;
Nehemiah 7:3;
Job 8:16;
Psalm 19:4;
Psalm 50:1;
Psalm 58:8;
Psalm 72:5;
Psalm 72:17;
Psalm 74:16;
Psalm 84:11;
Psalm 89:36;
Psalm 104:19;
Psalm 104:22;
Psalm 113:3;
Psalm 121:6;
Psalm 136:8;
Psalm 148:3;
Ecclesiastes 1:3;
Ecclesiastes 1:5(2);
Ecclesiastes 1:9;
Ecclesiastes 1:14;
Ecclesiastes 2:11;
Ecclesiastes 2:17;
Ecclesiastes 2:18;
Ecclesiastes 2:19;
Ecclesiastes 2:20;
Ecclesiastes 2:22;
Ecclesiastes 3:16;
Ecclesiastes 4:1;
Ecclesiastes 4:3;
Ecclesiastes 4:7;
Ecclesiastes 4:15;
Ecclesiastes 5:13;
Ecclesiastes 5:18;
Ecclesiastes 6:1;
Ecclesiastes 6:5;
Ecclesiastes 6:12;
Ecclesiastes 7:11;
Ecclesiastes 8:9;
Ecclesiastes 8:15(2);
Ecclesiastes 8:17;
Ecclesiastes 9:3;
Ecclesiastes 9:6;
Ecclesiastes 9:9(2);
Ecclesiastes 9:11;
Ecclesiastes 9:13;
Ecclesiastes 10:5;
Ecclesiastes 11:7;
Ecclesiastes 12:2;
Song of Songs 1:6;
Isaiah 13:10;
Isaiah 38:8(2);
Isaiah 41:25;
Isaiah 45:6;
Isaiah 49:10;
Isaiah 59:19;
Isaiah 60:19;
Isaiah 60:20;
Jeremiah 8:2;
Jeremiah 15:9;
Jeremiah 31:35;
Ezekiel 8:16;
Ezekiel 32:7;
Joel 2:10;
Joel 2:31;
Joel 3:15;
Amos 8:9;
Jonah 4:8(2);
Micah 3:6;
Nahum 3:17;
Habakkuk 3:11;
Malachi 1:11;
Malachi 4:2
• sunrising, 9
Numbers 21:11;
Deuteronomy 4:41;
Deuteronomy 4:47;
Joshua 1:15;
Joshua 13:5;
Joshua 19:12;
Joshua 19:27;
Joshua 19:34;
Judges 20:43
• west, 1
Zechariah 8:7
• westward, 1
Joshua 23:4
• windows, 1
Isaiah 54:12
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