שֶׁ֫מֶשׁ
she.mesh
“sun”
Definition
the sun; by implication, the east; figuratively, a ray, i.e. (architectural) a notched battlement
from an unused root meaning to be brilliant;
- 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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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun
H:N
Hebrew Noun
Occurrences
שֶׁ֫מֶשׁ appears 114 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
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!”
What does a man gain from all his labor,at which he toils under the sun?
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.
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.
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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