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Lexicon :: Strong's H1053 - bêṯ šemeš

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בֵּית שֶׁמֶשׁ
Transliteration
bêṯ šemeš
Pronunciation
bayth sheh'-mesh
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Variant Spellings

The following spelling is supported by Strongs: בית שמש.

Strong’s Definitions

בֵּית שֶׁמֶשׁ Bêyth Shemesh, bayth sheh'-mesh; from H1004 and H8121; house of (the) sun; Beth-Shemesh, a place in Palestine:—Beth-shemesh.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 21x

The KJV translates Strong's H1053 in the following manner: Bethshemesh (21x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 21x
The KJV translates Strong's H1053 in the following manner: Bethshemesh (21x).

  1. Beth-shemesh = "house of the sun" or "sun-temple"

    1. a town in southwest Judah

    2. a town in Naphtali

    3. a town in Issachar

    4. a town in Egypt

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
בֵּית שֶׁמֶשׁ Bêyth Shemesh, bayth sheh'-mesh; from H1004 and H8121; house of (the) sun; Beth-Shemesh, a place in Palestine:—Beth-shemesh.
STRONGS H1053: Abbreviations
† בֵּית שֶׁ֫מֶשׁ proper name, of a location (sun-temple) — שׁ׳ בּ׳ Joshua 19:22 + 8 times, ־שׁ׳בּ׳ Joshua 15:10 + 6 times; שָׁ֑מֶשׁ בּ׳ Joshua 19:38 + 4 times; —
1. city in southwest Judah Joshua 15:10; 1 Samuel 6:9, 12 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 6:13, 15, 19, 20; 1 Kings 4:9; 2 Kings 14:13 2 Chronicles 25:23; 28:18; distinguished from other places of same name as אֲשֶׁר לִיהוּדָה שׁ׳ בּ׳ 2 Kings 14:11 2 Chronicles 25:21; assigned to Levites Joshua 21:16 = 1 Chronicles 6:44; — ruin at modern `Ain Shems RobBR ii. 223 f. BdPal 163 Surveyiii. 35, 60.
2. city in Naphtali Joshua 19:38; Judges 1:33 (twice in verse)
3. city in Issachar Joshua 19:22; possibly `Ain esh-Shemsîyeh, Jordan valley, south of Beisân (Beth Shean) Surveyii. 231.
4. ＝On-Heliopolis, in Egypt Jeremiah 43:13 RobBR i. 25 EbGS 505 f. DlPa 318 f.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Joshua

15:10; 15:10; 19:22; 19:22; 19:38; 19:38; 21:16

Judges

1:33

1 Samuel

6:9; 6:12; 6:13; 6:15; 6:19; 6:20

1 Kings

4:9

2 Kings

14:11; 14:13

1 Chronicles

6:44

2 Chronicles

25:21; 25:23; 28:18

Jeremiah

43:13

H1053

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H1053 matches the Hebrew בֵּית שֶׁמֶשׁ (bêṯ šemeš),
which occurs 42 times in 19 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:10 - Then turning west, the line goes from Baalah to Mount Seir, and on to the side of Mount Jearim (which is Chesalon) on the north, then down to Beth-shemesh, and on past Timnah:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:22 - And their limit goes as far as Tabor and Shahazimah and Beth-shemesh, ending at Jordan; sixteen towns with their unwalled places.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:38 - And Iron and Migdal-el, Horem and Beth-anath and Beth-shemesh; nineteen towns with their unwalled places.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:16 - And Ain, and Juttah, and Beth-shemesh, with their grass-lands; nine towns from those two tribes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:33 - Naphtali did not take the land of the people of Beth-shemesh or of Beth-anath, driving them out; but he was living among the Canaanites in the land; however, the people of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath were put to forced work.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:9 - If it goes by the land of Israel to Beth-shemesh, then this great evil is his work; but if not, then we may be certain that the evil was not his doing, but was the working of chance.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:12 - And the cows took the straight way, by the road to Beth-shemesh; they went by the highway, not turning to the right or to the left, and the sound of their voices was clear on the road; and the lords of the Philistines went after them as far as the edge of Beth-shemesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:13 - And the people of Beth-shemesh were cutting their grain in the valley, and lifting up their eyes they saw the ark and were full of joy when they saw it.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:15 - Then the Levites took down the ark of the Lord and the chest in which were the gold images, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Beth-shemesh made burned offerings and gave worship that day before the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:19 - But the Lord sent destruction on seventy men of the people of Beth-shemesh for looking into the ark of the Lord; and great was the sorrow of the people for the destruction which the Lord had sent on them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:20 - And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to keep his place before the Lord, this holy God? and to whom may he go from us?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:9 - ... the son of Deker in Makaz and Shaalbim and Beth-shemesh and Elonbeth-hanan;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:11 - But Amaziah gave no attention. So Jehoash, king of Israel, went up, and he and Amaziah, king of Judah, came face to face at Beth-shemesh, which is in Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:13 - And Jehoash, king of Israel, made Amaziah, king of Judah, the son of Jehoash, son of Ahaziah, prisoner at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and had the wall of Jerusalem pulled down from the doorway of Ephraim to the door in the angle, four hundred cubits.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:59

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:59 - And Ashan with its outskirts, and Beth-shemesh with its outskirts;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:21 - And so Joash, king of Israel, went up; and he and Amaziah, king of Judah, came face to face at Beth-shemesh in Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:23 - And Joash, king of Israel, made Amaziah, king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, prisoner at Beth-shemesh, and took him to Jerusalem; and he had the wall of Jerusalem pulled down from the doorway of Ephraim to the doorway in the angle, four hundred cubits.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:18 - And the Philistines, forcing their way into the towns of the lowlands and the south of Judah, had taken Beth-shemesh and Aijalon and Gederoth and Soco, with their daughter-towns, as well as Timnah and Gimzo and their daughter-towns, and were living there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:13 - And the stone pillars of Beth-shemesh in the land of Egypt will be broken by him, and the houses of the gods of Egypt burned with fire.
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