- Original: שׁמשׁ
- Transliteration: Shemesh
- Phonetic: sheh'-mesh
- Definition: 
1. sun 
a. sun 
b. sunrise, sun-rising, east, sun-setting, west (of direction) 
c. sun (as object of illicit worship) 
d. openly, publicly (in other phrases) 
e. 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: 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  . 
Total KJV Occurrences: 134 
 • eastward, 1
 
2 Kings 10:33 
 
 • side, 2
 
Judges 11:18; 
Judges 21:19 
 
 • sun, 119
 
Genesis 15:12; 
Genesis 15:17; 
Genesis 19:23; 
Genesis 28:11; 
Genesis 32:31; 
Genesis 37:9; 
Exodus 16:21; 
Exodus 17:12; 
Exodus 22:3; 
Exodus 22:26; 
Leviticus 22:7; 
Numbers 25:4; 
Deuteronomy 4:19; 
Deuteronomy 11:30; 
Deuteronomy 16:6; 
Deuteronomy 17:3; 
Deuteronomy 23:11; 
Deuteronomy 24:13; 
Deuteronomy 24:15; 
Deuteronomy 33:14; 
Joshua 1:4; 
Joshua 8:29; 
Joshua 10:12; 
Joshua 10:13(2); 
Joshua 10:27; 
Joshua 12:1; 
Judges 5:31; 
Judges 9:33; 
Judges 19:14; 
1 Samuel 11:9; 
2 Samuel 2:24; 
2 Samuel 3:35; 
2 Samuel 12:11; 
2 Samuel 12:12; 
2 Samuel 23:4; 
1 Kings 22:36; 
2 Kings 3:22; 
2 Kings 23:5; 
2 Kings 23:11(2); 
2 Chronicles 18:34; 
Nehemiah 7:3; 
Job 8:16; 
Psalm 19:4; 
Psalm 50:1; 
Psalm 58:8; 
Psalm 72:5; 
Psalm 72:17; 
Psalm 74:16; 
Psalm 84:11; 
Psalm 89:36; 
Psalm 104:19; 
Psalm 104:22; 
Psalm 113:3; 
Psalm 121:6; 
Psalm 136:8; 
Psalm 148:3; 
Ecclesiastes 1:3; 
Ecclesiastes 1:5(2); 
Ecclesiastes 1:9; 
Ecclesiastes 1:14; 
Ecclesiastes 2:11; 
Ecclesiastes 2:17; 
Ecclesiastes 2:18; 
Ecclesiastes 2:19; 
Ecclesiastes 2:20; 
Ecclesiastes 2:22; 
Ecclesiastes 3:16; 
Ecclesiastes 4:1; 
Ecclesiastes 4:3; 
Ecclesiastes 4:7; 
Ecclesiastes 4:15; 
Ecclesiastes 5:13; 
Ecclesiastes 5:18; 
Ecclesiastes 6:1; 
Ecclesiastes 6:5; 
Ecclesiastes 6:12; 
Ecclesiastes 7:11; 
Ecclesiastes 8:9; 
Ecclesiastes 8:15(2); 
Ecclesiastes 8:17; 
Ecclesiastes 9:3; 
Ecclesiastes 9:6; 
Ecclesiastes 9:9(2); 
Ecclesiastes 9:11; 
Ecclesiastes 9:13; 
Ecclesiastes 10:5; 
Ecclesiastes 11:7; 
Ecclesiastes 12:2; 
Song of Songs 1:6; 
Isaiah 13:10; 
Isaiah 38:8(2); 
Isaiah 41:25; 
Isaiah 45:6; 
Isaiah 49:10; 
Isaiah 59:19; 
Isaiah 60:19; 
Isaiah 60:20; 
Jeremiah 8:2; 
Jeremiah 15:9; 
Jeremiah 31:35; 
Ezekiel 8:16; 
Ezekiel 32:7; 
Joel 2:10; 
Joel 2:31; 
Joel 3:15; 
Amos 8:9; 
Jonah 4:8(2); 
Micah 3:6; 
Nahum 3:17; 
Habakkuk 3:11; 
Malachi 1:11; 
Malachi 4:2 
 
 • sunrising, 9
 
Numbers 21:11; 
Deuteronomy 4:41; 
Deuteronomy 4:47; 
Joshua 1:15; 
Joshua 13:5; 
Joshua 19:12; 
Joshua 19:27; 
Joshua 19:34; 
Judges 20:43 
 
 • west, 1
 
Zechariah 8:7 
 
 • westward, 1
 
Joshua 23:4 
 
 • windows, 1
 
Isaiah 54:12 
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