Brown-Driver-Briggs
שֶׁ֫מֶשׁ133 noun feminineJudges 19:14 and masculineGenesis 19:23 (AlbrZAW xv (1895), 324) sun; — absolute ׳שׁ Joshua 10:12 +, שָׁ֑מֶשׁ Judges 20:43 +; suffix שִׁמְשֵׁךְ Isaiah 60:20, שִׁמְשָׁךְ Jeremiah 15:9; plural suffix שִׁמְשֹׁתַ֫יִךְ Isaiah 54:12; —
1 sun, Genesis 37:9 (E; + moon, stars); marking time: as rising (verb זָרַת q. v.) Exodus 22:2 (E) + 8 t. + Malachi 3:20 (figurative צְדָקָה ׳שׁ, of reward of the faithful, with wings, i.e. rays ? Now GASm; or winged sun-disc [compare We] ?); verb יְצָא Genesis 19:23 (J), Isaiah 13:10; Judges 5:31 (simile of splendour; see יְצָא
1f); setting (verb בּוֺא) Genesis 15:17 (J), Amos 8:9 19t., + לָבוֺא ׳וַיְהִי הַשּׁ Genesis 15:12 (JE), יְדַע מְבוֺאוֺ ׳שׁ Psalm 104:19 (see בּוֺא 1i, מָבוֺא
2); as giving daylight Isaiah 60:9; hot 1 Samuel 11:9; Nehemiah 7:3; Exodus 16:21 (P), compare Isaiah 49:10; Jonah 4:8; Psalm 121:6; as ripening crops Deuteronomy 33:14 (poem), compare (figurative) Job 8:16, tanning the face Songs 1:6; standing still at Joshua's word Joshua 10:12.13 a (poem in J; "" יָרֵחַ), Joshua 10:13 b (J), compare Habakkuk 3:11 (+ יָרֵךְַ); casting shadow (on dial), ׳יָָֽרְדָה בְמַעֲלוֺת אָחָז בַּשּׁ Isaiah 38:8, ׳וַתָּשָׁב הַשּׁ Isaiah 38:8; set in sky by ׳י Jeremiah 31:25; Psalm 19:5; Psalm 74:16; Psalm 136:8, enduring Psalm 72:5; Psalm 72:17 (compare עִם 1g; [מָּנֶה]
11. 4 a (e), p. 817), also Psalm 89:37; personified, called to praise ׳י Psalm 148:3 (+ יָרֵךְַ); to be darkened by ׳יs judgment, Ezekiel 32:7; Joel 2:10; Joel 3:4; Joel 4:15 (compare Amos 8:9 above, Micah 3:6). 2
of direction: ׳מִמִּוְרַח הַשּׁ Numbers 21:11 (E) toward sun-rise, = East, compare Deuteronomy 4:41,47 16t. (see מִוְרָךְ p. 280); ׳מְבוֺא הַשּׁ Deuteronomy 11:30 3t. (see מָבוֺא 2, p. 99).
3
object of worship (usually + moon, stars, etc.) 2 Kings 23:5; Jeremiah 8:2; Ezekiel 8:16; Deuteronomy 4:19; horses given to ׳שׁ 2 Kings 23:11, ׳מַרְכְּבוֺת השּׁ 2 Kings 23:11. — See also ׳בֵּית שׁ p. 112:b.
4 other phrase:
a. ׳נֶגֶד חַשּׁ, i.e. openly, publicly, 2 Samuel 12:12; Numbers 25:4 (P), so ׳לְעֵינֵי חַשּׁ 2 Samuel 12:11.
b. figurative of living, ׳חָזָה שׁ Psalm 58:9, ׳רָאָה שׁ Exodus 6:5; Exodus 7:11; Exodus 11:7, opposed to ׳תֶּחְשַׁךְ הַשׁ Exodus 12:2.
c. ׳תַּחַת הַשּׁ, i. e. on the earth, Ecclesiastes 1:3 28t. Ecclesiastes (compare Greek ὐφ’ ἠλίῳ, KueOnd. iii. 196; Ein1. iii. 192).
5 pinnacle, as glittering, shining, plural Isaiah 54:12 thy pinnacles, battlements (of Zion), so perhaps singular אֱםהִים ׳וּמָנֵן י ׳שׁ Psalm 84:12 battlement and shield is ׳א ׳י (Gr Bae Du Buhl; most sun, and so Thes De Che SS; Hup-Now hesitates).
I. שׁמשׁ (√ of following; Biblical Hebrew שׁמשׁ, שֶׁ֫מֶשׁ).
