{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H1053",
  "lemma": "בֵּית שֶׁמֶשׁ",
  "transliteration": "Bêyth Shemesh",
  "definition": "Beth-Shemesh, a place in Palestine",
  "kjv": "Beth-shemesh.",
  "occurrences": 42,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H1004",
      "lemma": "בַּיִת",
      "transliteration": "bayith",
      "meaning": "a house",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H1004"
    },
    {
      "id": "H8121",
      "lemma": "שֶׁמֶשׁ",
      "transliteration": "shemesh",
      "meaning": "the sun",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H8121"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "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"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 15:10",
      "text": "and the border turned about from Baalah westward to Mount Seir, and passed along to the side of Mount Jearim (also…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/15?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 19:22",
      "text": "The border reached to Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth Shemesh. Their border ended at the Jordan: sixteen cities with their…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/19?v=22"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 19:38",
      "text": "Iron, Migdal El, Horem, Beth Anath, and Beth Shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/19?v=38"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 21:16",
      "text": "Ain with its pasture lands, Juttah with its pasture lands, and Beth Shemesh with its pasture lands: nine cities out of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/21?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 1:33",
      "text": "Naphtali didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth Anath; but he lived among the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/1?v=33"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 6:9",
      "text": "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…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/6?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 6:12",
      "text": "The cows took the straight way by the way to Beth Shemesh. They went along the highway, lowing as they went, and didn’t…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/6?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 6:13",
      "text": "The people of Beth Shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley; and they lifted up their eyes and saw the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/6?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 6:15",
      "text": "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…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/6?v=15"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 6:19",
      "text": "He struck of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked into the LORD’s ark, he struck fifty thousand seventy of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/6?v=19"
    }
  ],
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