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Lexicon :: Strong's H8121 - šemeš

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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
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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 - While the sun, H8121 or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:6 - Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun H8121 hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:10 - For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun H8121 shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 38:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:8 - Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun H8121 dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun H8121 returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:25 - I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun H8121 shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:6 - That they may know from the rising of the sun, H8121 and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 49:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:10 - They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun H8121 smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 54:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:12 - And I will make thy windows H8121 of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 59:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:19 - So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. H8121 When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 60:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:19 - The sun H8121 shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 60:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:20 - Thy sun H8121 shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:2 - And they shall spread them before the sun, H8121 and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 15:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:9 - She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun H8121 is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:35 - Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun H8121 for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:16 - And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun H8121 toward the east.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:7 - And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun H8121 with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:10 - The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun H8121 and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:31 - The sun H8121 shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:15 - The sun H8121 and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:9 - And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun H8121 to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jon 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:8 - And it came to pass, when the sun H8121 did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun H8121 beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:6 - Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun H8121 shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:17 - Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun H8121 ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:11 - The sun H8121 and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:7 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west H8121 country;

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Unchecked Copy Box Mal 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:11 - For from the rising of the sun H8121 even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mal 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 4:2 - But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun H8121 of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

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