Strong's Concordance H8121

Original Word: שֶׁמֶשׁ
Transliteration: shemesh
Phonetic Spelling: sheh'-mesh
from an unused root meaning to be brilliant; the sun; by implication, the east; figuratively, a ray, i.e. (architectural) a notched battlement; east side(-ward), sun (rising), west(-ward), window. See also H1053.

Usages throughout the bible

Genesis 15:12 - And when the sun H8121 was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.

Genesis 15:17 - And it came to pass, that, when the sun H8121 went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.

Genesis 19:23 - The sun H8121 was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.

Genesis 28:11 - And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun H8121 was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.

Genesis 32:31 - And as he passed over Penuel the sun H8121 rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.

Genesis 37:9 - And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun H8121 and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.

Exodus 16:21 - And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun H8121 waxed hot, it melted.

Exodus 17:12 - But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. H8121

Exodus 22:3 - If the sun H8121 be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

Exodus 22:26 - If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun H8121 goeth down:

Leviticus 22:7 - And when the sun H8121 is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food.

Numbers 25:4 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, H8121 that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.

Deuteronomy 4:19 - And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, H8121 and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

Deuteronomy 4:41 - Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising; H8121

Deuteronomy 11:30 - Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun H8121 goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?

Deuteronomy 16:6 - But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, H8121 at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 17:3 - And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, H8121 or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;

Deuteronomy 23:11 - But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash himself with water: and when the sun H8121 is down, he shall come into the camp again.

Deuteronomy 24:13 - In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun H8121 goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.

Deuteronomy 24:15 - At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun H8121 go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.

Deuteronomy 33:14 - And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, H8121 and for the precious things put forth by the moon,

Joshua 1:4 - From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, H8121 shall be your coast.

Joshua 8:29 - And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun H8121 was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.

Joshua 10:12 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, H8121 stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.

Joshua 10:13 - And the sun H8121 stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun H8121 stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

Joshua 10:27 - And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun, H8121 that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid, and laid great stones in the cave's mouth, which remain until this very day.

Joshua 12:1 - Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, H8121 from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:

Judges 5:31 - So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun H8121 when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.

Judges 9:33 - And it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as the sun H8121 is up, thou shalt rise early, and set upon the city: and, behold, when he and the people that is with him come out against thee, then mayest thou do to them as thou shalt find occasion.

Judges 19:14 - And they passed on and went their way; and the sun H8121 went down upon them when they were by Gibeah, which belongeth to Benjamin.

1 Samuel 11:9 - And they said unto the messengers that came, Thus shall ye say unto the men of Jabeshgilead, To morrow, by that time the sun H8121 be hot, ye shall have help. And the messengers came and shewed it to the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.

2 Samuel 2:24 - Joab also and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun H8121 went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lieth before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.

2 Samuel 3:35 - And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun H8121 be down.

2 Samuel 12:11 - Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun. H8121

2 Samuel 12:12 - For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun. H8121

2 Samuel 23:4 - And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun H8121 riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.

2 Kings 3:22 - And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun H8121 shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood:

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, H8121 and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

2 Kings 23:11 - And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, H8121 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 H8121 with fire.

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 H8121 going down he died.

Nehemiah 7:3 - And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun H8121 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.

Job 8:16 - He is green before the sun, H8121 and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.

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, H8121

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 H8121 unto the going down thereof.

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. H8121

Psalms 72:5 - They shall fear thee as long as the sun H8121 and moon endure, throughout all generations.

Psalms 72:17 - His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: H8121 and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.

Psalms 74:16 - The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. H8121

Psalms 84:11 - For the LORD God is a sun H8121 and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

Psalms 89:36 - His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun H8121 before me.