שֶׁמֶשׁ
shemesh · sun
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8121 · appears 134 times in the Bible
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shemesh (שֶׁמֶשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sun”.
How to say it
she·mesh
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.
Its senses in the Bible
- The star that gives light and heat by day and marks the day and the year; "under the sun" means in this world.
- The side from which the sun rises each morning; the east.
- The tops of a wall, which shine as if made of light.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Word study
Sun; by implication, the east; and in architecture, battlements. BDB: the sun; by implication, the east; figuratively, a ray, that is, a notched battlement. From this word comes the name Samson.
- Joseph dreams of the sun and the moon Genesis 37:9
- “Sun, stand still at Gibeon” Joshua 10:12
- “From the rising of the sun to its setting” Psalms 113:3
- “Under the sun” in Ecclesiastes Ecclesiastes 1:3
- “The sun of righteousness” Malachi 4:2
- Battlements Isaiah 54:12
How we translate it
“Sun” 121 times, “toward the sunrise” 8, “east” 1, “eastward” 1, “sunrise” 1, “sunset” 1, “battlements” 1. מִמִּזְרַח שֶׁמֶשׁ עַד מְבֹאוֹ is translated “From the rising of the sun to its setting” (Psalm 113:3).
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- sun ×121
- toward the sunrise ×8
- battlements ×1
- east ×1
- eastward ×1
- sunrise ×1
- sunset ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis×6
- Exodus×4
- Leviticus×1
- Numbers×2
- Deuteronomy×10
- Joshua×13
- Judges×6
- 1 Samuel×1
- 2 Samuel×5
- 1 Kings×1
- 2 Kings×5
- 2 Chronicles×1
- Nehemiah×1
- Job×1
- Psalms×14
- Ecclesiastes×35
- Song of Songs×1
- Isaiah×10
- Jeremiah×3
- Ezekiel×2
- Joel×3
- Amos×1
- Jonah×2
- Micah×1
- Nahum×1
- Habakkuk×1
- Zechariah×1
- Malachi×2
- Genesis 15:12
As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram; and look, a terror, a great darkness, was falling on him.
- Genesis 15:17
When the sun had gone down and it was dark, look, a smoking oven and a torch of fire that passed between these pieces.
- Genesis 19:23
The sun had risen over the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
- Genesis 28:11
He came upon the place and spent the night there, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place and put it at his head, and lay down in that place.
- Genesis 32:31
The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip.
- Genesis 37:9
He dreamed yet another dream and told it to his brothers, and said, “Look, I have dreamed another dream: look, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down before me.”
- Exodus 16:21
They gathered it morning by morning, each according to what he could eat; and when the sun grew hot, it melted.
- Exodus 17:12
But Moses’ hands grew heavy; so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it; and Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side and one on the other side; so his hands were steady until the setting of the sun.
- Exodus 22:3
if the sun has risen on him, there is bloodguilt for him. He shall surely repay; if he has nothing, he shall be sold for his theft.
- Exodus 22:26
If you ever take in pledge the cloak of your neighbor, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down,
- Leviticus 22:7
And when the sun has set, he shall be clean, and afterward he may eat of the holy things, for it is his food.
- Numbers 21:11
And they set out from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim, in the wilderness that is opposite Moab, toward the sunrise.
- Numbers 25:4
YHWH said to Moses, “Take all the heads of the people and hang them for YHWH in front of the sun, and the burning anger of YHWH will turn away from Israel.”
- Deuteronomy 4:19
And so that you do not lift up your eyes to the heavens and see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the army of the heavens, and be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them; YHWH your Elohim has allotted them to all the peoples under all the heavens.
- Deuteronomy 4:41
Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan, toward the sunrise,
- Deuteronomy 4:47
They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, toward the sunrise:
- Deuteronomy 11:30
Are they not beyond the Jordan, behind the road of the sunset, in the land of the Canaanite who lives in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?
- Deuteronomy 16:6
but at the place that YHWH your Elohim chooses to make his name dwell there, there you shall sacrifice the Passover in the evening, at the going down of the sun, at the appointed time of your coming out of Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 17:3
and has gone and served other gods and bowed down to them, or to the sun or to the moon or to any of the army of the heavens, which I have not commanded,
- Deuteronomy 23:11
And when evening comes on he shall wash with water, and when the sun goes down he may come inside the camp.
- Deuteronomy 24:13
You shall surely return the pledge to him when the sun goes down, so that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you; and it will be righteousness for you before YHWH your Elohim.
- Deuteronomy 24:15
On his day you shall give him his wages, and the sun shall not go down on him, for he is poor and to it he lifts up his soul; so that he does not cry out against you to YHWH, and it be sin in you.
- Deuteronomy 33:14
and with the choicest produce of the sun, and with the choicest yield of the months,
- Joshua 1:4
From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and as far as the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun, shall be your territory.
- Joshua 1:15
until YHWH gives rest to your brothers as to you, and they also take possession of the land that YHWH your Elohim is giving them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession and possess it, which Moses the servant of YHWH gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.”
- Joshua 8:29
And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the time of evening; and at the going down of the sun Joshua gave command, and they took down his corpse from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised over it a great heap of stones, which is there to this day.
- Joshua 10:12
Then Joshua spoke to YHWH on the day when YHWH gave up the Amorite before the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still at Gibeon, and moon, in the valley of Aijalon.”
- Joshua 10:13
And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the nation took vengeance on its enemies. Is it not written in the book of the Upright? The sun stopped in the middle of the heavens and did not hurry to go down for about a whole day.
- Joshua 10:27
And it came about, at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua gave command, and they took them down from the trees and threw them into the cave where they had hidden, and they put great stones on the mouth of the cave, which are there until this very day.
- Joshua 12:1
Now these are the kings of the land whom the sons of Israel struck and whose land they took possession of beyond the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun, from the brook Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah to the east:
- Joshua 13:5
and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.
- Joshua 19:12
and it turned back from Sarid eastward toward the sunrise to the border of Chisloth-tabor, and went out to Daberath, and went up to Japhia;
- Joshua 19:27
and it turned back toward the sunrise to Beth-dagon, and touched Zebulun and the Valley of Iphtah-el to the north, Beth-emek and Neiel, and went out to Cabul on the left,
- Joshua 19:34
and the border turned back westward to Aznoth-tabor, and went out from there to Hukkok, and touched Zebulun on the south, and touched Asher on the west, and Judah at the Jordan toward the sunrise.
- Joshua 23:4
See, I have allotted to you these nations that remain as an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, to the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun.
- Judges 5:31
So may all your enemies perish, YHWH! But may those who love him be like the going out of the sun in its strength.” And the land was calm forty years.
- Judges 9:33
And in the morning, as the sun rises, you shall rise early and rush upon the city; and when he and the people who are with him come out against you, you shall do to him as your hand finds.
- Judges 11:18
Then he went through the wilderness and went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and came from the rising of the sun to the land of Moab, and they camped beyond the Arnon; and they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.
- Judges 19:14
So they passed on and went, and the sun went down on them near Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin.
- Judges 20:43
They surrounded Benjamin, pursued him, trod him down without rest as far as opposite Gibeah toward the sunrise.
And 94 more times.