H1053 בֵּית שֶׁמֶשׁ
Bêyth Shemesh — Beth-Shemesh, a place in Palestine
KJV: Beth-shemesh.
Built from בַּיִת bayith (a house) + שֶׁמֶשׁ shemesh (the sun) — means “house of (the) sun”
Occurs 42 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- בֵּית שֶׁ֫מֶשׁ n.pr.loc. (sun-temple)
- 1 city in SW. Judah
- 2 city in Naphtali
- 3 city in Issachar
- 4 = On-Heliopolis, in Egypt
Where it occurs
- Joshua 15:10 — and the border turned about from Baalah westward to Mount Seir, and passed along to the side of Mount Jearim (also…
- Joshua 19:22 — The border reached to Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth Shemesh. Their border ended at the Jordan: sixteen cities with their…
- Joshua 19:38 — Iron, Migdal El, Horem, Beth Anath, and Beth Shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.
- Joshua 21:16 — Ain with its pasture lands, Juttah with its pasture lands, and Beth Shemesh with its pasture lands: nine cities out of…
- Judges 1:33 — Naphtali didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth Anath; but he lived among the…
- 1 Samuel 6:9 — Behold, if it goes up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has done us this great evil; but if not…
- 1 Samuel 6:12 — The cows took the straight way by the way to Beth Shemesh. They went along the highway, lowing as they went, and didn’t…
- 1 Samuel 6:13 — The people of Beth Shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley; and they lifted up their eyes and saw the…
- 1 Samuel 6:15 — The Levites took down the LORD’s ark and the box that was with it, in which the jewels of gold were, and put them on…
- 1 Samuel 6:19 — He struck of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked into the LORD’s ark, he struck fifty thousand seventy of…