Strong's Hebrew: 1053. בֵּית (Beth Shemesh) -- "sun temple," three places in Palestine, also a place in Egypt

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Beth Shemesh: "sun temple," three places in Palestine, also a place in Egypt

Original Word: בֵּית
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Transliteration: Beth Shemesh
Phonetic Spelling: (bayth sheh'-mesh)
Short Definition: Beth-shemesh

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from bayith and shemesh
Definition
"sun temple," three places in Pal., also a place in Eg.
NASB Translation
Beth-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 Rob^{BR ii. 223 f.} Bd^{Pal 163} Survey^{iii. 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) Survey^{ii. 231.}

4 = On-Heliopolis, in Egypt Jeremiah 43:13 Rob^{BR i. 25} Eb^{GS 505 f.} Dl^{Pa 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