Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H8121

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Original: שׁמשׁ

Transliteration: shemesh

Phonetic: sheh'-mesh

BDB Definition:

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)

Origin: from an unused root meaning to be brilliant

TWOT entry: 2417a

Part(s) of speech: Noun

Strong's Definition: From an unused root meaning to be brilliant ; the sun ; by implication the east ; figuratively a ray, that is, (architecturally) a notched battlement : - + east side (-ward), sun ([rising]), + west (-ward), window. See also H1053.

Occurrences in the (KJV) King James Version:

All Occurrences (133x)

A Sun (1x)

Against The Sun (1x)

Also Under The Sun (1x)

And As Soon As The Sun (1x)

And Before The Sun (1x)

And From The West (1x)

And It Came To Pass, That, When The Sun (1x)

And It Came To Pass, When The Sun (1x)

And The Sun (8x)

And When The Sun (4x)

As Soon As The Sun (1x)

As The Sun (2x)

Because The Sun (2x)

By The East Side (1x)

By The Sun (1x)

Eastward (1x)

For The Sun (1x)

Her Sun (1x)

Him Under The Sun (2x)

If The Sun (1x)

In The Sun (1x)

More; And, Behold, The Sun (1x)

Neither Shall The Sun (1x)

Nor Sun (1x)

Of The Sun (14x)

Of This Sun (1x)

On The East Side (1x)

Shall The Sun (1x)

So The Sun (2x)

Sun (1x)

That I Will Cause The Sun (1x)

That The Sun (1x)

The Sun (27x)

Thee Under The Sun (1x)

Them Before The Sun (1x)

Them, Either The Sun (1x)

Thy Sun (1x)

Thy Windows (1x)

To The Sun (2x)

Toward The Sunrising (8x)

Under The Sun (25x)

Until The Sun (1x)

Westward (1x)

When The Sun (2x)

Where The Sun (1x)

While The Sun (1x)

Ye Him, Sun (1x)

All Occurrences

Joshua 23:4

Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.(b)

Judges 5:31

So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord : but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.

Judges 9:33

And it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, thou shalt rise early, and set upon the city: and, behold, when he and the people that is with him come out against thee, then mayest thou do to them as thou shalt find occasion.(k)

Judges 11:18

Then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, but came not within the border of Moab: for Arnon was the border of Moab.

Judges 19:14

And they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them when they were by Gibeah, which belongeth to Benjamin.

Judges 20:43

Thus they inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the sunrising.(m)

(n)

Judges 21:19

Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the Lord in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Beth–el, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Beth–el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.(e)

(f)

(g)

1 Samuel 11:9

And they said unto the messengers that came, Thus shall ye say unto the men of Jabesh–gilead, To morrow, by that time the sun be hot, ye shall have help. And the messengers came and shewed it to the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.(c)

2 Samuel 2:24

Joab also and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lieth before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.

2 Samuel 3:35

And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.

2 Samuel 12:11

Thus saith the Lord , Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

2 Samuel 12:12

For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.

2 Samuel 23:4

And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.

1 Kings 22:36

And there went a proclamation throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his own country.

2 Kings 3:22

And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood:

2 Kings 10:33

From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.(p)

(q)

2 Kings 23:5

And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.(b)

(c)

(d)

2 Kings 23:11

And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the Lord , by the chamber of Nathan–melech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.(f)

2 Chronicles 18:34

And the battle increased that day: howbeit the king of Israel stayed himself up in his chariot against the Syrians until the even: and about the time of the sun going down he died.

Nehemiah 7:3

And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doors, and bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one to be over against his house.

Job 8:16

He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.

Psalm 19:4

Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,(b)

Psalm 50:1

The mighty God, even the Lord , hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.(a)

Psalm 58:8

As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

Psalm 72:5

They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.

Psalm 72:17

His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.(d)

(e)

Psalm 74:16

The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

Psalm 84:11

For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

Psalm 89:36

His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.

Psalm 104:19

He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.

Psalm 104:22

The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens.

Psalm 113:3

From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the Lord’s name is to be praised.

Psalm 121:6

The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.

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Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

All of the original Hebrew and Aramaic words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. In some cases more than one form of the word — such as the masculine and feminine forms of a noun — may be listed.

Each entry is a Hebrew word, unless it is designated as Aramaic. Immediately after each word is given its equivalent in English letters, according to a system of transliteration. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (TWOT), by R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke. This section makes an association between the unique number used by TWOT with the Strong's number.

Thayers Information

All of the original Greek words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. The Strong's numbering system arranges most Greek words by their alphabetical order. This renders reference easy without recourse to the Greek characters. In some cases more than one form of the word - such as the masculine, feminine, and neuter forms of a noun - may be listed.

Immediately after each word is given its exact equivalent in English letters, according to the system of transliteration laid down in the scheme here following. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Thayer's Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in the ten-volume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (TDNT), edited by Gerhard Kittel. Both volume and page numbers cite where the word may be found.

The presence of an asterisk indicates that the corresponding entry in the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament may appear in a different form than that displayed in Thayers' Greek Definitions.

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Dictionaries of Hebrew and Greek Words taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890.

Strong's Concor­dance

Hebrew-Aramaic H8121

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Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H8121