שֶׁמֶשׁ
shemesh · H8122 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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sun
The celestial body, that marks day and night and produces warmth and light for the earth during the day, and was sometimes worshiped, contrary to God's law
ExamplesDaniel 6:14 Then, as soon as the king heard this statement, he was deeply distressed, and set his mind on rescuing Daniel; and until sunset he kept exerting himself to save him.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מֵעָלgoing down 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Contrasting words 1 word
- יָרֵחַ yârêach · H3394 · moon
- Lexical opposite as the two primary celestial luminaries: sun (day-light) versus moon (night-light); standard pairing in biblical cosmology.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ἥλιος hḗlios · G2246 · the sun
- Standard Greek translation equivalent for Hebrew/Aramaic שֶׁמֶשׁ 'sun'; both denote the celestial body that provides daylight.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Celestial Bodies001002001
- Daniel 6:14 recounts that the king, deeply distressed over Daniel, "kept exerting himself to save him" until sunset.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8122. shemash [שְׁמַשׁ] noun [masculine] so DWB] sun; — emphatic שִׁמְשָׁא Dan 6:15.
[שְׁמַשׁ] noun [masculine] so DWB] sun; — emphatic שִׁמְשָׁא Dan 6:15.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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