# H1053 בֵּית שֶׁמֶשׁ

בֵּית שֶׁמֶשׁ (Bêyth Shemesh), Strong’s H1053: Beth-Shemesh, a place in Palestine KJV: Beth-shemesh.. Occurs 42 times.

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*Bêyth Shemesh* — Beth-Shemesh, a place in Palestine

KJV: Beth-shemesh.

Built from [בַּיִת bayith](https://besorah.bible/word/H1004) (a house) + [שֶׁמֶשׁ shemesh](https://besorah.bible/word/H8121) (the sun) — means “house of (the) sun”

Occurs 42 times.

## 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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/15?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/19?v=22) — The border reached to Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth Shemesh. Their border ended at the Jordan: sixteen cities with their…
- [Joshua 19:38](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/19?v=38) — Iron, Migdal El, Horem, Beth Anath, and Beth Shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.
- [Joshua 21:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/21?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/1?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/6?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/6?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/6?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/6?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/6?v=19) — He struck of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked into the LORD’s ark, he struck fifty thousand seventy of…