HebrewH8121Noun

שֶׁ֫מֶשׁ

she.mesh

114Occurrences
H8121Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

the sun; by implication, the east; figuratively, a ray, i.e. (architectural) a notched battlement

from an unused root meaning to be brilliant;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
  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)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

H:N

Full Description

Hebrew Noun

Occurrences

שֶׁ֫מֶשׁ appears 114 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Ecclesiastes
30
Joshua
12
Psalms
10
Deuteronomy
9
Isaiah
9
Judges
6
2 Samuel
5
Genesis
5

Key Passages

1 Kings 22:36BSB

As the sun was setting, the cry rang out in the army:“Every man to his own city,and every man to his own land!”

Ecclesiastes 1:3BSB

What does a man gain from all his labor,at which he toils under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 8:9BSB

All this I have seen, applying my mind to every deed that is done under the sun; there is a time when one man lords it over another to his own detriment.

Isaiah 49:10BSB

They will not hunger or thirst,nor will scorching heat or sun beat down on them.For He who has compassion on them will guide themand lead them beside springs of water.

Joshua 12:1BSB

Now these are the kings of the land whom the Israelites struck down and whose lands they took beyond the Jordan to the east, from the Arnon Valley to Mount Hermon, including all the Arabah eastward:

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