Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H8121

➧ Back to the Overview

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

Genesis 15:12

And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.

Genesis 15:17

And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.(a)

Genesis 19:23

The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.(e)

Genesis 28:11

And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.

Genesis 32:31

And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.

Genesis 37:9

And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.

Exodus 16:21

And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.

Exodus 17:12

But Moses’ hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.

Exodus 22:3

If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

Exodus 22:26

If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:

Leviticus 22:7

And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food.

Numbers 21:11

And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije–abarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.(c)

Numbers 25:4

And the Lord said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel.

Deuteronomy 4:19

And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.(c)

Deuteronomy 4:47

And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;

Deuteronomy 11:30

Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?

Deuteronomy 16:6

But at the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 17:3

And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;

Deuteronomy 23:11

But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash himself with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again.(b)

Deuteronomy 24:13

In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the Lord thy God.

Deuteronomy 24:15

At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the Lord , and it be sin unto thee.(e)

Deuteronomy 33:14

And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon,(e)

(f)

Joshua 1:4

From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.

Joshua 1:15

Until the Lord have given your brethren rest, as he hath given you, and they also have possessed the land which the Lord your God giveth them: then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the Lord’s servant gave you on this side Jordan toward the sunrising.

Joshua 8:29

And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.

Joshua 10:12

Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.(b)

Joshua 10:13

And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.(c)

Joshua 10:27

And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid, and laid great stones in the cave’s mouth, which remain until this very day.

Joshua 12:1

Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:

Joshua 13:5

And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baal–gad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.

Joshua 19:12

And turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising unto the border of Chisloth–tabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and goeth up to Japhia,

Joshua 19:27

And turneth toward the sunrising to Beth–dagon, and reacheth to Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthah–el toward the north side of Beth–emek, and Neiel, and goeth out to Cabul on the left hand,

Joshua 19:34

And then the coast turneth westward to Aznoth–tabor, and goeth out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on the south side, and reacheth to Asher on the west side, and to Judah upon Jordan toward the sunrising.

1 4

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

Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

Thayers Information

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H8121