bet-shemesh · Beth-shemesh

What it means

bet-shemesh (בֵּית שֶׁמֶשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Beth-shemesh”.

A town on the border of Judah, in the Shephelah. The name means "house of the sun."

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Joshua×8
• Judges×4
• 1 Samuel×14
• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Kings×4
• 1 Chronicles×2
• 2 Chronicles×6
• Jeremiah×2

• Joshua 15:10

  and the border turned from Baalah westward to Mount Seir, and passed along to the slope of Mount Jearim on the north (that is Chesalon), and went down to Beth-shemesh, and passed along to Timnah;

• Joshua 19:22

  And the border touched Tabor, Shahazimah, and Beth-shemesh, and the ends of their border were at the Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.

• Joshua 19:38

  Iron, Migdal-el, Horem, Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh: nineteen cities with their villages.

• Joshua 21:16

  and Ain with its pasturelands, and Juttah with its pasturelands, and Beth-shemesh with its pasturelands —nine cities from these two tribes.

• Judges 1:33

  Naphtali did not dispossess the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh or the inhabitants of Beth-anath, but lived among the Canaanite, the inhabitants of the land; and the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath became forced labor for them.

• 1 Samuel 6:9

  And watch: if it goes up by the road to its own territory, to Beth-shemesh, then he has done us this great harm; but if not, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us; it was an accident that happened to us.”

• 1 Samuel 6:12

  And the cows went straight on the road, on the road to Beth-shemesh; along one highway they went, going and lowing, and they did not turn aside to the right or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines were walking after them as far as the border of Beth-shemesh.

• 1 Samuel 6:13

  Now the people of Beth-shemesh were reaping the harvest of wheat in the valley; and they lifted up their eyes and saw the ark and rejoiced to see it.

• 1 Samuel 6:15

  And the Levites brought down the ark of YHWH and the chest that was with it, in which were the objects of gold, and put them on the great stone. And the men of Beth-shemesh offered up burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices that day to YHWH.

• 1 Samuel 6:19

  And he struck among the men of Beth-shemesh, because they looked into the ark of YHWH; he struck among the people seventy men, fifty thousand men. And the people mourned, because YHWH had struck the people with a great blow.

• 1 Samuel 6:20

  And the men of Beth-shemesh said, “Who is able to stand before YHWH, this holy Elohim? And to whom shall he go up from us?”

• 1 Kings 4:9

  Ben-deker, in Makaz and in Shaalbim and Beth-shemesh and Elon-beth-hanan;

• 2 Kings 14:11

  But Amaziah did not listen. So Joash king of Israel went up, and they looked each other in the face, he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah.

• 2 Kings 14:13

  And Amaziah king of Judah, son of Joash son of Ahaziah, Joash king of Israel seized at Beth-shemesh; and he came to Jerusalem and made a breach in the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate, four hundred cubits.

• 1 Chronicles 6:59

  Ashan with its pasturelands, and Beth-shemesh with its pasturelands.

• 2 Chronicles 25:21

  So Joash king of Israel went up, and they looked each other in the face, he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah.

• 2 Chronicles 25:23

  And Amaziah king of Judah, son of Joash son of Jehoahaz, Joash king of Israel seized at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem and made a breach in the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate, four hundred cubits.

• 2 Chronicles 28:18

  The Philistines made raids on the cities of the Shephelah and of the Negev of Judah, and captured Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco and its villages, Timnah and its villages, and Gimzo and its villages; and they settled there.

• Jeremiah 43:13

  And he will break the standing stones of Beth-shemesh that is in the land of Egypt, and the houses of the gods of Egypt he will burn with fire.’”

And 23 more times.