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:
2 Kings 10:33: "From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead,"
2 Kings 23:5: "Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host"
2 Kings 23:11: "the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD,"
2 Kings 23:11: "which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire."
2 Chronicles 18:34: "the Syrians until the even: and about the time of the sun going down he died."
Nehemiah 7:3: "of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand"
Job 8:16: "He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden."
Psalms 19:4: "of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,"
Psalms 50:1: "and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down"
Psalms 58:8: "of a woman, that they may not see the sun."
Psalms 72:5: "They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations."
Psalms 72:17: "his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed."
Psalms 74:16: "is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun."
Psalms 84:11: "For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace"
Psalms 89:36: "shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before"
Psalms 104:19: "He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down."
Psalms 104:22: " The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens."
Psalms 113:3: "From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD's name is to be praised."
Psalms 121:6: " The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night."
Psalms 136:8: " The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth forever:"
Psalms 148:3: "Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light."
Ecclesiastes 1:3: "his labor which he taketh under the sun?"
Ecclesiastes 1:5: " The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where"
Ecclesiastes 1:5: "The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where"
Ecclesiastes 1:9: "which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under"
Ecclesiastes 1:14: "the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity"
Ecclesiastes 2:11: "was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun."
Ecclesiastes 2:17: "the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for"
Ecclesiastes 2:18: "which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man"
Ecclesiastes 2:19: "wherein I have labored, and wherein I have showed myself wise under the sun. This is also"
Ecclesiastes 2:20: "the labor which I took under the sun."
Ecclesiastes 2:22: "wherein he hath labored under the sun?"
Ecclesiastes 3:16: "And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there;"
Ecclesiastes 4:1: "that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no"
Ecclesiastes 4:3: "work that is done under the sun."
Ecclesiastes 4:7: "and I saw vanity under the sun."
Ecclesiastes 4:15: "the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that"
Ecclesiastes 5:13: "evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt."
Ecclesiastes 5:18: "his labor that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life,"
Ecclesiastes 6:1: "which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:"
Ecclesiastes 6:5: "Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest"
Ecclesiastes 6:12: "shall be after him under the sun?"
Ecclesiastes 7:11: "an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun."
Ecclesiastes 8:9: "that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over"
Ecclesiastes 8:15: "hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink,"
Ecclesiastes 8:15: "which God giveth him under the sun."
Ecclesiastes 8:17: "the work that is done under the sun: because though a man"
Ecclesiastes 9:3: "things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all:"
Ecclesiastes 9:6: "thing that is done under the sun."
Ecclesiastes 9:9: "of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity:"
