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Lexicon :: Strong's H8121 - šemeš

Aa
שֶׁמֶשׁ
Transliteration
šemeš
Pronunciation
sheh'-mesh
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Part of Speech
masculine/feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root meaning to be brilliant
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2417a

Strong’s Definitions

שֶׁמֶשׁ shemesh, sheh'-mesh; from an unused root meaning to be brilliant; the sun; by implication, the east; figuratively, a ray, i.e. (architectural) a notched battlement:— east side(-ward), sun (rising), west(-ward), window. See also H1053.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 134x

The KJV translates Strong's H8121 in the following manner: sun (119x), sunrising (with H4217) (9x), east side (with H4217) (2x), windows (1x), eastward (with H4217) (1x), west (with H3996) (1x), westward (with H3996) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 134x
The KJV translates Strong's H8121 in the following manner: sun (119x), sunrising (with H4217) (9x), east side (with H4217) (2x), windows (1x), eastward (with H4217) (1x), west (with H3996) (1x), westward (with H3996) (1x).

  1. sun

    1. sun

    2. sunrise, sun-rising, east, sun-setting, west (of direction)

    3. sun (as object of illicit worship)

    4. openly, publicly (in other phrases)

    5. pinnacles, battlements, shields (as glittering or shining)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שֶׁמֶשׁ shemesh, sheh'-mesh; from an unused root meaning to be brilliant; the sun; by implication, the east; figuratively, a ray, i.e. (architectural) a notched battlement:— east side(-ward), sun (rising), west(-ward), window. See also H1053.
STRONGS H8121: Abbreviations
שֶׁ֫מֶשׁ 133 noun feminineJudges 19:14 and masculineGenesis 19:23 (AlbrZAW xv (1895), 324) sun; — absolute שׁ׳ Joshua 10:12 +, שָׁ֑מֶשׁ Judges 20:43 +; suffix שִׁמְשֵׁךְ Isaiah 60:20, שִׁמְשָׁךְ Jeremiah 15:9; plural suffix שִׁמְשֹׁתַ֫יִךְ Isaiah 54:12; —
1. sun, Genesis 37:9 (E; + moon, stars); marking time: as rising (verb זָרַת which see) Exodus 22:2 (E) + 8 times + Malachi 3:20 (figurative צְדָקָה שׁ׳, of reward of the faithful, with wings, i.e. rays ? Now GASm; or winged sun-disc [compare We] ?); verb יְצָא Genesis 19:23 (J), Isaiah 13:10; Judges 5:31 (simile of splendour; see יְצָא 1f); setting (verb בּוֺא) Genesis 15:17 (J), Amos 8:9 + 19 times, + לָבוֺא וַיְהִי הַשּׁ׳ Genesis 15:12 (JE), יְדַע מְבוֺאוֺ שׁ׳ Psalm 104:19 (see בּוֺא 1i, מָבוֺא 2); as giving daylight Isaiah 60:9; hot 1 Samuel 11:9; Nehemiah 7:3; Exodus 16:21 (P), compare Isaiah 49:10; Jonah 4:8; Psalm 121:6; as ripening crops Deuteronomy 33:14 (poem), compare (figurative) Job 8:16, tanning the face Songs 1:6; standing still at Joshua's word Joshua 10:12.13a (poem in J; || יָרֵחַ), Joshua 10:13b (J), compare Habakkuk 3:11 (+ יָרֵךְַ); casting shadow (on dial), בַּשּׁ׳ אָחָז בְמַעֲלוֺת יָֽרְדָה Isaiah 38:8, וַתָּשָׁב הַשּׁ׳ Isaiah 38:8; set in sky by י׳ Jeremiah 31:25; Psalm 19:5; Psalm 74:16; Psalm 136:8, enduring Psalm 72:5; Psalm 72:17 (compare עִם 1g; [פָּנֶה] 11. 4 a (e), also Psalm 89:37; personified, called to praise י׳ Psalm 148:3 (+ יָרֵךְַ); to be darkened by י׳'s judgment, Ezekiel 32:7; Joel 2:10; Joel 3:4; Joel 4:15 (compare Amos 8:9 above, Micah 3:6).
2. of direction: מִמִּוְרַח הַשּׁ׳ Numbers 21:11 (E) toward sun-rise, = East, compare Deuteronomy 4:41, 47 + 16 times (see מִוְרָךְ); מְבוֺא הַשּׁ׳ Deuteronomy 11:30 + 3 times (see מָבוֺא 2).
3. object of worship (usually + moon, stars, etc.) 2 Kings 23:5; Jeremiah 8:2; Ezekiel 8:16; Deuteronomy 4:19; horses given to שׁ׳ 2 Kings 23:11, מַרְכְּבוֺת השּׁ׳ 2 Kings 23:11. — See also בֵּית שׁ׳.
4. other phrases:
† a. נֶגֶד חַשּׁ׳, i.e. openly, publicly, 2 Samuel 12:12; Numbers 25:4 (P), so לְעֵינֵי חַשּׁ׳ 2 Samuel 12:11.
† b. figurative of living, חָזָה שׁ׳ Psalm 58:9, רָאָה שׁ׳ Exodus 6:5; Exodus 7:11; Exodus 11:7, opposed to תֶּחְשַׁךְ הַשׁ׳ Exodus 12:2.
c. תַּחַת הַשּׁ׳, i.e. on the earth, Ecclesiastes 1:3 + 28 times Ecclesiastes (compare Greek ὐφ’ ἠλίῳ, KueOnd. iii. 196; Ein1. iii. 192).
5. pinnacle, as glittering, shining, plural Isaiah 54:12 thy pinnacles, battlements (of Zion), so perhaps singular אֱםהִים וּמָנֵן י׳ שׁ׳ Psalm 84:12 battlement and shield is א׳ י׳ (Gr Bae Du Buhl; most sun, and so Thes De Che SS; Hup-Now hesitates).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

15:12; 15:17; 19:23; 19:23; 37:9

Exodus

6:5; 7:11; 11:7; 12:2; 16:21; 22:2

Numbers

21:11; 25:4

Deuteronomy

4:19; 4:41; 4:47; 11:30; 33:14

Joshua

10:12; 10:12; 10:13; 10:13

Judges

5:31; 19:14; 20:43

1 Samuel

11:9

2 Samuel

12:11; 12:12

2 Kings

23:5; 23:11; 23:11

Nehemiah

7:3

Job

8:16

Psalms

19:5; 58:9; 72:5; 72:17; 74:16; 84:12; 89:37; 104:19; 121:6; 136:8; 148:3

Ecclesiastes

1:3

Song of Songs

1:6

Isaiah

13:10; 38:8; 38:8; 49:10; 54:12; 54:12; 60:9; 60:20

Jeremiah

8:2; 15:9; 31:25

Ezekiel

8:16; 32:7

Joel

2:10; 3:4

Amos

8:9; 8:9

Jonah

4:8

Micah

3:6

Habakkuk

3:11

H8121

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Strong's Number H8121 matches the Hebrew שֶׁמֶשׁ (šemeš),
which occurs 134 times in 127 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 3 / 3 (Ecc 12:2–Mal 4:2)

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:2 - before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds return after the rain;

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:6 - Do not stare at me because I am dark, because I am darkened by the sun. My mother’s sons were angry with me and made me take care of the vineyards; my own vineyard I had to neglect.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:10 - The stars of heaven and their constellations will not show their light. The rising sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:8 - I will make the shadow cast by the sun go back the ten steps it has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.’ ” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had gone down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:25 - “I have stirred up one from the north, and he comes— one from the rising sun who calls on my name. He treads on rulers as if they were mortar, as if he were a potter treading the clay.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:6 - so that from the rising of the sun to the place of its setting people may know there is none besides me. I am the LORD, and there is no other.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:10 - They will neither hunger nor thirst, nor will the desert heat or the sun beat down on them. He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:12 - I will make your battlements of rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:19 - From the west, people will fear the name of the LORD, and from the rising of the sun, they will revere his glory. For he will come like a pent-up flood that the breath of the LORD drives along.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:19 - The sun will no more be your light by day, nor will the brightness of the moon shine on you, for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:20 - Your sun will never set again, and your moon will wane no more; the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your days of sorrow will end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:2 - They will be exposed to the sun and the moon and all the stars of the heavens, which they have loved and served and which they have followed and consulted and worshiped. They will not be gathered up or buried, but will be like dung lying on the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:9 - The mother of seven will grow faint and breathe her last. Her sun will set while it is still day; she will be disgraced and humiliated. I will put the survivors to the sword before their enemies,”

declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:35 - This is what the LORD says, he who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the LORD Almighty is his name:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:16 - He then brought me into the inner court of the house of the LORD, and there at the entrance to the temple, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men. With their backs toward the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east, they were bowing down to the sun in the east.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:7 - When I snuff you out, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:10 - Before them the earth shakes, the heavens tremble, the sun and moon are darkened, and the stars no longer shine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:31 - The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:15 - The sun and moon will be darkened, and the stars no longer shine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:9 - “In that day,” declares the Sovereign LORD, “I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:8 - When the sun rose, God provided a scorching east wind, and the sun blazed on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint. He wanted to die, and said, “It would be better for me to die than to live.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:6 - Therefore night will come over you, without visions, and darkness, without divination. The sun will set for the prophets, and the day will go dark for them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:17 - Your guards are like locusts, your officials like swarms of locusts that settle in the walls on a cold day— but when the sun appears they fly away, and no one knows where.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:11 - Sun and moon stood still in the heavens at the glint of your flying arrows, at the lightning of your flashing spear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:7 - This is what the LORD Almighty says: “I will save my people from the countries of the east and the west.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:11 - My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place incense and pure offerings will be brought to me, because my name will be great among the nations,” says the LORD Almighty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMal 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 4:2 - But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves.

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