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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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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)

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:2 - before the sun H8121 and the light, the moon and the stars are darkened, and clouds return after the rain;
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:6 -

“Do not look at me because I am [fn]swarthy,

For the sun H8121 has burned me.

My mother’s sons were angry with me;

They made me caretaker of the vineyards,

But I have not taken care of my own vineyard.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:10 -

For the stars of heaven and their constellations

Will not flash forth their light;

The sun H8121 will be dark when it rises

And the moon will not shed its light.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:8 - “Behold, I will cause the shadow on the stairway, which has gone down with the sun H8121 on the stairway of Ahaz, to go back ten steps.” So the sun’s H8121 shadow went back ten steps on the stairway on which it had gone down.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:25 -

“I have awakened one from the north, and he has come;

From the rising of the sun H8121 he will call on My name;

And he will come upon officials as upon mortar,

Even as the potter treads clay.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:6 -

That they may know from the rising to the setting of the sun H8121

That there is no one besides Me.

I am Yahweh, and there is no other,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:10 -

“They will not hunger or thirst,

Nor will the scorching heat or sun H8121 strike them down;

For He who has compassion on them will guide them

And will lead them to springs of water.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:12 -

“Moreover, I will make your battlements H8121 of [fn]rubies,

And your gates of [fn]crystal,

And your entire [fn]wall of [fn]precious stones.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:19 -

So they will fear the name of Yahweh from the west

And His glory from the rising of the sun H8121,

For He will come like a [fn]rushing stream

Which the wind of Yahweh makes flee.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:19 -

“No longer will you have the sun H8121 for light by day,

Nor for brightness will the moon give you light;

But you will have Yahweh for an everlasting light,

And your God for your [fn]glory.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:20 -

“Your sun H8121 will no longer set,

Nor will your moon wane;

For you will have Yahweh for an everlasting light,

And the days of your mourning will be finished.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:2 - “And they will spread them out to the sun H8121, the moon, and to all the host of heaven, which they have loved and which they have served, and which they have walked after and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped. They will not be gathered or buried; they will be as dung on the face of the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:9 -

“She who bore seven sons languishes;

[fn]Her breathing is labored.

Her sun H8121 has set while it was yet day;

She has been shamed and humiliated.

So I will give over their survivors to the sword

Before their enemies,” declares Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:35 -

Thus says Yahweh,

Who gives the sun H8121 for light by day

And the statutes for the moon and the stars for light by night,

Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar;

Yahweh of hosts is His name:

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:16 -

Then He brought me into the inner court of the house of Yahweh. And behold, at the entrance to the temple of Yahweh, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of Yahweh and their faces toward the east; and they were [fn]prostrating themselves eastward toward the sun H8121.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:7 -

“And when I extinguish you,

I will cover the heavens and darken their stars;

I will cover the sun H8121 with a cloud,

And the moon will not give its light.

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:10 -

Before them the earth trembles;

The heavens quake;

The sun H8121 and the moon grow dark,

And the stars [fn]lose their brightness.

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:31 -

“The sun H8121 will be turned into darkness

And the moon into blood

Before the great and awesome day of Yahweh comes.

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:15 -

The sun H8121 and moon grow dark,

And the stars lose their brightness.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:9 -

“And it will be in that day,” declares Lord Yahweh,

“That I will make the sun H8121 go down at noon

And make the earth dark in [fn]broad daylight.

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:8 - Then it happened that as the sun H8121 rose up, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun H8121 struck down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint and asked with all his soul to die and said, “Death is better to me than life.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:6 -

Therefore it will be night for you—without vision,

And darkness for you—without divination.

The sun H8121 will go down on the prophets,

And the day will grow black over them.

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:17 -

Your [fn]guardsmen are like the swarming locust.

Your marshals are like a locust-swarm

Encamping in the stone walls on a cold day.

The sun H8121 rises, and they flee,

And the place where they are is not known.

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:11 -

Sun H8121 and moon stood in their lofty places;

They went away at the light of Your arrows,

At the brightness of Your flashing spear.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:7 - “Thus says Yahweh of hosts, ‘Behold, I am going to save My people from the land where the [fn]sun rises and from the land where the [fn]sun H8121 sets;
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:11 - “For from the rising of the sun H8121 even to its setting, My name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense is going to be presented to My name, as well as a grain offering that is clean; for My name will be great among the nations,” says Yahweh of hosts.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 4:2 - “But for you who [fn]fear My name, the sun H8121 of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall.

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