Sun
שְׁמַשׁStrong’s H8122shemesh (she-mesh)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shemesh is the Aramaic word usually translated “sun the”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him.”
Meaning
- Sun
How it's translated
- sun the 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
שְׁמַשׁ shemesh · sun
sun Aramaic of she.mesh (שֶׁ֫מֶשׁ "sun" H8121)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sun” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SUN, noun
- The splendid orb or luminary which, being in or near the center of our system of worlds, gives light and heat to all the planets. Psalms 136:8
- In popular usage, a sunny place; a place where the beams of the sun fall; as, to stand in the sun that is, to stand where the direct rays of the sun fall.
- Any thing eminently splendid or luminous; that which is the chief source of light or honor.
- In Scripture, Christ is called the sun of righteousness, as the source of light, animation and comfort to his disciples.
All definitions and other forms of “sun”
- The luminary or orb which constitutes the center of any system of worlds.“There is no new thing under the sun” Ecclesiastes 1:9
SUN, verb transitive
To expose to the sun's rays; to warm or dry in the light of the sun; to insolate; as, to sun cloth; to sun grain.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.