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Strong's H8121: שֶׁמֶשׁ (shemesh) Definition

Strong's number
H8121
Lemma
שֶׁמֶשׁ
Transliteration
shemesh
Pronunciation
sheh'-mesh
Strong's definition
the sun; by implication, the east; figuratively, a ray, i.e. (architectural) a notched battlement [phrase] east side(-ward), sun (rising), [phrase] west(-ward), window. See also H1053 (בֵּית שֶׁמֶשׁ). from an unused root meaning to be brilliant;

126 instances of the word שֶׁמֶשׁ shemesh (H8121)


  • Genesis 15:12 - And when the sun was going down a deep sleep fell upon Abram and lo an horror darkness of great fell

  • Genesis 15:17 - And it came to pass that when the sun went down and it was dark furnace behold a smoking lamp and a burning that passed between those pieces

  • Genesis 19:23 - The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar

  • Genesis 28:11 - And he lighted in that place and tarried there all night was set because the sun and he took of the stones in that place and put them for his pillows and lay down in that place

  • Genesis 32:31 - rose the sun And as he passed over Penuel upon him and he halted upon his thigh

  • Genesis 37:9 - And he dreamed a dream yet another and told it his brethren and said And he dreamed a dream more and behold the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance

  • Habakkuk 3:11 - The sun and moon stood still in their habitation at the light of thine arrows they went and at the shining of thy glittering spear

  • Isaiah 13:10 - For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give shall not cause her light shall be darkened the sun in his going forth and the moon to shine shall not cause her light

  • Isaiah 38:8 - Behold I will bring again the shadow by which degrees it was gone down by which degrees of Ahaz So the sun backward ten by which degrees Behold I will bring again So the sun ten by which degrees by which degrees it was gone down

  • Isaiah 41:25 - I have raised up one from the north and he shall come from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name and he shall come upon princes as upon morter and as the potter treadeth clay

  • Isaiah 45:6 - That they may know from the rising of the sun and from the west that there is none beside me I am the LORD

  • Isaiah 49:10 - They shall not hunger nor thirst smite neither shall the heat nor sun them for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them even by the springs of water shall he guide

  • Isaiah 54:12 - And I will make of agates thy windows and thy gates of carbuncles and all thy borders of carbuncles of pleasant

  • Isaiah 59:19 - So shall they fear from the west the name of the LORD from the rising of the sun and his glory shall come in like a flood When the enemy the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard

  • Isaiah 60:19 - The sun give light by day neither for brightness shall the moon light unto thee but the LORD give light shall be unto thee an everlasting and thy God thy glory

  • Isaiah 60:20 - shall no more go down Thy sun neither shall thy moon withdraw itself for the LORD light shall be thine everlasting shall be ended and the days of thy mourning

  • Jeremiah 8:2 - And they shall spread them before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven whom they have loved and whom they have served whom they have walked and after 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

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

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

  • Job 8:16 - He is green before the sun in his garden and his branch shooteth forth