Lexicon Beth Shemesh: "sun temple," three places in Palestine, also a place in Egypt Original Word: בֵּיתPart of Speech: Proper Name Location Transliteration: Beth Shemesh Phonetic Spelling: (bayth sheh'-mesh) Short Definition: Beth-shemesh NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom bayith and shemeshDefinition"sun temple," three places in Pal., also a place in Eg. NASB TranslationBeth-shemesh (20), Heliopolis (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs בֵּית שֶׁ֫מֶשׁ proper name, of a location ( sun-temple) — ׳שׁ ׳בּ Joshua 19:22 8t., ׳שֿׁ׳בּ Joshua 15:10 6t.; שָׁ֑מֶשׁ ׳בּ Joshua 19:38 4t.; — 1 city in southwest Judah Joshua 15:10; 1 Samuel 6:9,12 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 6:13,15,19,20; 1 Kings 4:9; 2 Kings 14:13 2Chronicles 25:23; 28:18; distinguished from other places of same name as אֲשֶׁר לִיהוּדָה ׳שׁ ׳בּ 2 Kings 14:11 2Chronicles 25:21; assigned to Levites Joshua 21:16 = 1 Chronicles 6:44; — ruin at modern `Ain Shems RobBR ii. 223 f. BdPal 163 Surveyiii. 35, 60. 2 city in Naphtali Joshua 19:38; Judges 1:33 (twice in verse) 3 city in Issachar Joshua 19:22; possibly `Ain esh-Shemsîyeh, Jordan valley, south of Beisân (Beth Shean) Surveyii. 231. 4 = On-Heliopolis, in Egypt Jeremiah 43:13 RobBR i. 25 EbGS 505 f. DlPa 318 f.
Strong's Beth-shemesh From bayith and shemesh; house of (the) sun; Beth-Shemesh, a place in Palestine -- Beth-shemesh. see HEBREW bayith see HEBREW shemesh |
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