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H8121Hebrew

שֶׁמֶשׁ

Definition and meaning

shemesh (sheh'-mesh) n-e. 1. the sun 2. (by implication) the east 3. (figuratively) a ray 4. (architecturally) a notched battlement [from an unused root meaning to be brilliant] KJV: + east side(-ward), sun ((rising)), + west(-ward), window. See also H1053. See also: H1053

Tagged KJV passages

127 matching verses - 134.0 tagged occurrences

Highlighted words carry the exact Strong's tag in the installed KJV text. A verse may contain more than one occurrence. These are tagged English renderings, not independently verified original-language token counts.

2 Kings 3:22

And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood:

Matched English: sun
2 Kings 10:33

From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.

2 Kings 23:5

And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

Matched English: sun
2 Kings 23:11

And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

Matched English: sun, sun
2 Chronicles 18:34

And the battle increased that day: howbeit the king of Israel stayed himself up in his chariot against the Syrians until the even: and about the time of the sun going down he died.

Matched English: sun
Nehemiah 7:3

And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doors, and bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one to be over against his house.

Matched English: sun
Job 8:16

He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.

Matched English: sun
Psalms 19:4

Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,

Matched English: sun
Psalms 50:1

A Psalm of Asaph. The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

Matched English: sun
Psalms 58:8

As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

Matched English: sun
Psalms 72:5

They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.

Matched English: sun
Psalms 72:17

His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.

Matched English: sun
Psalms 74:16

The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

Matched English: sun
Psalms 84:11

For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

Matched English: sun
Psalms 89:36

His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.

Matched English: sun
Psalms 104:19

He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.

Matched English: sun
Psalms 104:22

The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens.

Matched English: sun
Psalms 113:3

From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD'S name is to be praised.

Matched English: sun
Psalms 121:6

The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.

Matched English: sun
Psalms 136:8

The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever:

Matched English: sun
Psalms 148:3

Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.

Matched English: sun
Ecclesiastes 1:3

What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

Matched English: sun
Ecclesiastes 1:5

The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.

Matched English: sun, sun
Ecclesiastes 1:9

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Matched English: sun