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:
Ecclesiastes 9:9: "which thou takest under the sun."
Ecclesiastes 9:11: "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift,"
Ecclesiastes 9:13: "have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto"
Ecclesiastes 10:5: "an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from"
Ecclesiastes 11:7: "thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:"
Ecclesiastes 12:2: "While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened,"
Song of Solomon 1:6: "not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's"
Isaiah 13:10: "thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not"
Isaiah 38:8: "of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees"
Isaiah 38:8: "ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which"
Isaiah 41:25: "one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name:"
Isaiah 45:6: "That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that"
Isaiah 49:10: "thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead"
Isaiah 54:12: "And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders"
Isaiah 59:19: "from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy"
Isaiah 60:19: " The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness"
Isaiah 60:20: " Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for"
Jeremiah 8:2: "And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved,"
Jeremiah 15:9: "languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed"
Jeremiah 31:35: "saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon"
Ezekiel 8:16: "toward the east; and they worshiped the sun toward the east."
Ezekiel 32:7: "the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon"
Joel 2:10: "before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw"
Joel 2:31: " The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible"
Joel 3:15: " The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining."
Amos 8:9: "saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth"
Jonah 4:8: "And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind;"
Jonah 4:8: "a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah,"
Micah 3:6: "shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over"
Nahum 3:17: "which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place"
Habakkuk 3:11: " The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining"
Zechariah 8:7: "my people from the east country, and from the west country;"
Malachi 1:11: "For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great"
Malachi 4:2: "But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth,"
