H8121

שמש

שמש
shamash

Masculine/feminine noun · From an unused root meaning to be brilliant

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.

Outline

  1. sun
    1. sun
    2. sunrise, sun-rising, east, sun-setting, west (of direction)
    3. sun (as object of illicit worship)
    4. openly, publicly (in other phrases)
    5. pinnacles, battlements, shields (as glittering or shining)

Usages (1/3)

Judges 19:14

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

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