Bethshemite
בֵּית־הַשִּׁמְשִׁיStrong’s H1053bet hashshimshi (bet hash-shim-shi)
Appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bet hashshimshi is the Hebrew word usually translated “shemesh”, “beth” and “at beth”. It appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to Bethshemesh, and passed on to Timnah:”
Meaning
- Bethshemite or Beth-shemeshite = "house of the sun"
- § Beth-shemesh = "house of the sun" or "sun-temple"
- § Beth-shemesh = "house of the sun" or "sun-temple"
- § Beth-shemesh = "house of the sun" or "sun-temple"
How it's translated
- shemesh 21
- beth 13
- at beth 4
- and beth 3
- and in beth 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 6
- Joshua 4
- 2 Chronicles 3
- 2 Kings 2
- Judges 1
- 1 Kings 1
8 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 19:22And the coast reacheth to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and Bethshemesh; and the outgoings of their border were at Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.
- Joshua 19:38And Iron, and Migdalel, Horem, and Bethanath, and Bethshemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.
- Joshua 21:16And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, and Bethshemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.
- Judges 1:33Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Bethshemesh, nor the inhabitants of Bethanath; but he dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of Bethshemesh and of Bethanath became tributaries unto them.
- 1 Samuel 6:9And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us: it was a chance that happened to us.
- 1 Samuel 6:12And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Bethshemesh.
Hebrew dictionary
בֵּית־הַשִּׁמְשִׁי bet hashshimshi · Bethshemite
Bethshemite or Beth-shemeshite = "house of the sun" an inhabitant of Beth-shemesh Another spelling of bet she.mesh (בֵּית שֶׁ֫מֶשׁ "Beth-shemesh" H1053)
בֵּית שֶׁ֫מֶשׁ bet shemesh · Beth-shemesh
§ Beth-shemesh = "house of the sun" or "sun-temple" a town in Issachar
בֵּית שֶׁ֫מֶשׁ bet shemesh · Beth-shemesh
§ Beth-shemesh = "house of the sun" or "sun-temple" a town in Naphtali
בֵּית שֶׁ֫מֶשׁ bet shemesh · Beth-shemesh
§ Beth-shemesh = "house of the sun" or "sun-temple" a town in southwest Judah
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “be” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BE, verb intransitive
substantive, participle present tense being; participle passive been.[The sense is to stand, remain or be fixed; hence to continue. This verb is defective, and its defects are supplied by verbs from other roots, as, is, was, were, which have no radical connection with be The case is the same with the substantive verb in most languages.]
- To be fixed; to exist; to have a real state or existence, for a longer or shorter time.“Let this mind be in you, which was in Christ Jesus” Philippians 2:5
- To be made to be; to become.
- To remain.
- To be present in a place.
All definitions
- To have a particular manner of being or happening; as, how is this affair? how was it? what were the circumstances?
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.