Strong's #8121: shemesh (pronounced sheh'-mesh)
from an unused root meaning to be brilliant; the sun; by implication, the east; figuratively, a ray, i.e. (arch.) a notched battlement:--+ east side(-ward), sun ((rising)), + west(-ward), window. See also 1053.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ׁׁ
shemesh
1) sun
1a) sun
1b) sunrise, sun-rising, east, sun-setting, west (of direction)
1c) sun (as object of illicit worship)
1d) openly, publicly (in other phrases)
1e) pinnacles, battlements, shields (as glittering or shining)
Part of Speech: noun feminine or masculine
Relation: from an unused root meaning to be brilliant
Usage:
This word is used 134 times:
Genesis 15:12: " And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror"
Genesis 15:17: "And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace,"
Genesis 19:23: " The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar."
Genesis 28:11: "upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones"
Genesis 32:31: "he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon"
Genesis 37:9: "a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars"
Exodus 16:21: "it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted."
Exodus 17:12: "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"
Exodus 22:26: "thou at all take thy neighbor'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"
Numbers 21:11: "in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising."
Numbers 25:4: "and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD"
Deuteronomy 4:19: "unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host"
Deuteronomy 4:41: "cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;"
Deuteronomy 4:47: "which were on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;"
Deuteronomy 11:30: "Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell"
Deuteronomy 16:6: "the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt."
Deuteronomy 17:3: "other gods, and worshiped them, either the sun, or moon, or any"
Deuteronomy 23:11: "cometh on, he shall wash himself with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into"
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,"
Deuteronomy 24:15: "thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he"
Deuteronomy 33:14: "And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon,"
Joshua 1:4: "and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast."
Joshua 1:15: "servant gave you on this side Jordan toward the sunrising."
Joshua 8:29: "a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded"
Joshua 10:12: "and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley"
Joshua 10:13: " And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies."
Joshua 10:13: "in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted"
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,"
Joshua 12:1: "on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto"
Joshua 13:5: "of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baal-gad under"
Joshua 19:12: "And turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising unto the border"
Joshua 19:27: "And turneth toward the sunrising to Beth-dagon, and reacheth to Zebulun, and to the valley of Jipthah-el"
Joshua 19:34: "to Asher on the west side, and to Judah upon Jordan toward the sunrising."
Joshua 23:4: "I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward."
Judges 5:31: "perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest"
Judges 9:33: "And it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, thou shalt rise early, and set upon the city:"
Judges 11:18: "and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab,"
Judges 19:14: "And they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them when they were by Gibeah, which belongeth to Benjamin."
Judges 20:43: "and chased them, and trod them down with ease over against Gibeah"
Judges 21:19: "yearly in a place which is on the north side of Bethel,"
1 Samuel 11:9: "unto the men of Jabesh-gilead, Tomorrow, by that time the sun be hot, ye shall have help."
2 Samuel 2:24: "pursued after Abner: and the sun went down when they were come to"
2 Samuel 3:35: "bread, or aught else, till the sun be down."
2 Samuel 12:11: "with thy wives in the sight of this sun."
2 Samuel 12:12: "all Israel, and before the sun."
2 Samuel 23:4: "And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass"
1 Kings 22:36: "a proclamation throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city,"
2 Kings 3:22: "And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw"
