Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H1053
בֵּית שֶׁמֶשׁ
Beth Shemeshbayth sheh'-mesh
Beth-shemesh
42 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Bêyth Shemesh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1053is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 39Old Testament books
- 14spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1053
Beth-Shemesh, a place in Palestine
The King James renders it: Beth-shemesh.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Beth Shemesh is rendered "Beth-shemesh". It stands 42 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.
- Fourteen of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Joshua 15:10The border curled westward from Baalah to Mount Seir, ran along the northern slope of Mount Jearim (that is, Chesalon), went down to Beth-shemesh, and crossed to Timnah.
- The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.
The first use
The border curled westward from Baalah to Mount Seir, ran along the northern slope of Mount Jearim (that is, Chesalon), went down to Beth-shemesh, and crossed to Timnah.
Joshua 15:10בֵּֽית־
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Fourteen of the word's forty-two uses are in 1 Samuel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Shemesh21
- Beth13
- at Beth4
- and Beth3
- and in Beth1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בֵּין | ben | between | Uses407 |
| בֵּית הַלַּחְמִי | Beth hal-Lachmi | Bethlehemite | Uses8 |
| בֵּיצָה | betsah | egg | Uses6 |
| בֵּית הַשִּׁמְשִׁי | Beth hash-Shimshi | Bethshemite | Uses4 |
| בֵּין | ben | between | Uses2 |
| בֵּית הָאֱלִי | Beth ha-Eli | Bethelite | Uses2 |
The words it stands beside
All 42, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
14 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- שֶׁ֔מֶשׁ6
- בֵֽית־5
- שֶׁ֖מֶשׁ5
- וּבֵ֣ית4
- שָׁ֑מֶשׁ4
- בֵּ֥ית3
- בֵּ֣ית3
- בְּבֵ֥ית2
- בְּבֵ֣ית2
- בֵּֽית־2
- שֶׁ֙מֶשׁ֙2
- שֶׁ֗מֶשׁ2
and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)32HNpl
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)4HC/Npl
- preposition + proper noun (a name)4HR/Npl
- noun · masculine or feminine singular1HNcbsa
- noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcbsc
Joshua
eight uses
The border curled westward from Baalah to Mount Seir, ran along the northern slope of Mount Jearim (that is, Chesalon), went down to Beth-shemesh, and crossed to Timnah.
- בֵּֽית־beit-proper noun (a name)tagged: Beth
- שֶׁ֖מֶשׁshemeshproper noun (a name)tagged: Shemesh
The border reached Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth-shemesh, and ended at the Jordan. There were sixteen cities, along with their villages.
- וּבֵ֣יתuveitconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Beth
- שֶׁ֔מֶשׁshemeshproper noun (a name)tagged: Shemesh
Iron, Migdal-el, Horem, Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh. There were nineteen cities, along with their villages.
- וּבֵ֣יתuveitconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Beth
- שָׁ֑מֶשׁshameshproper noun (a name)tagged: Shemesh
Ain, Juttah, and Beth-shemesh—nine cities from these two tribes, together with their pasturelands.
- בֵּ֥יתbeitproper noun (a name)tagged: Beth
- שֶׁ֖מֶשׁshemeshproper noun (a name)tagged: Shemesh
Judges
four uses
Naphtali failed to drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath. So the Naphtalites also lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land, but the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath served them as forced laborers.
- בֵֽית־veit-proper noun (a name)tagged: Beth
- שֶׁ֙מֶשׁ֙shemeshproper noun (a name)tagged: Shemesh
- בֵֽית־veit-proper noun (a name)tagged: Beth
- שֶׁ֙מֶשׁ֙shemeshproper noun (a name)tagged: Shemesh
1 Samuel
fourteen uses
but keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its homeland, toward Beth-shemesh, it is the LORD who has brought on us this great disaster. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not His hand that punished us and that it happened by chance.”
- בֵּ֣יתbeitproper noun (a name)tagged: Beth
- שֶׁ֔מֶשׁshemeshproper noun (a name)tagged: Shemesh
And the cows headed straight up the road toward Beth-shemesh, staying on that one highway and lowing as they went, never straying to the right or to the left. The rulers of the Philistines followed behind them to the border of Beth-shemesh.
- בֵּ֣יתbeitproper noun (a name)tagged: Beth
- שֶׁ֔מֶשׁshemeshproper noun (a name)tagged: Shemesh
- בֵּ֥יתbeitproper noun (a name)tagged: Beth
- שָֽׁמֶשׁ׃shameshproper noun (a name)tagged: Shemesh
Now the people of Beth-shemesh were harvesting wheat in the valley, and when they looked up and saw the ark, they were overjoyed at the sight.
- וּבֵ֣יתuveitconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Beth
- שֶׁ֔מֶשׁshemeshproper noun (a name)tagged: Shemesh
And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD and the chest containing the gold objects, and they placed them on the large rock. That day the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the LORD.
- בֵֽית־veit-proper noun (a name)tagged: Beth
- שֶׁ֗מֶשׁshemeshproper noun (a name)tagged: Shemesh
But God struck down some of the people of Beth-shemesh because they looked inside the ark of the LORD. He struck down seventy men, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck them with a great slaughter.
- בֵֽית־veit-proper noun (a name)tagged: Beth
- שֶׁ֗מֶשׁshemeshproper noun (a name)tagged: Shemesh
The men of Beth-shemesh asked, “Who can stand in the presence of the LORD, this holy God? To whom should the ark go up from here?”
- בֵֽית־veit-proper noun (a name)tagged: Beth
- שֶׁ֔מֶשׁshemeshproper noun (a name)tagged: Shemesh
1 Kings
two uses
Ben-deker in Makaz, in Shaalbim, in Beth-shemesh, and in Elon-beth-hanan;
- וּבֵ֣יתuveitconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and in Beth
- שָׁ֑מֶשׁshameshproper noun (a name)tagged: Shemesh
2 Kings
four uses
But Amaziah would not listen, and Jehoash king of Israel advanced. He and King Amaziah of Judah faced each other at Beth-shemesh in Judah.
- בְּבֵ֥יתbeveitpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: at Beth
- שֶׁ֖מֶשׁshemeshproper noun (a name)tagged: Shemesh
There at Beth-shemesh, Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Ahaziah. Then Jehoash went to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section of four hundred cubits.
- בְּבֵ֣יתbeveitpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: at Beth
- שָׁ֑מֶשׁshameshproper noun (a name)tagged: Shemesh
1 Chronicles
two uses
Ashan, Juttah, and Beth-shemesh, together with their pasturelands.
- בֵּ֥יתbeitproper noun (a name)tagged: Beth
- שֶׁ֖מֶשׁshemeshproper noun (a name)tagged: Shemesh
2 Chronicles
six uses
So Jehoash king of Israel advanced, and he and Amaziah king of Judah faced each other at Beth-shemesh in Judah.
- בְּבֵ֥יתbeveitpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: at Beth
- שֶׁ֖מֶשׁshemeshproper noun (a name)tagged: Shemesh
There at Beth-shemesh, Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz. Then Jehoash brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section of four hundred cubits.
- בְּבֵ֣יתbeveitpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: at Beth
- שָׁ֑מֶשׁshameshproper noun (a name)tagged: Shemesh
The Philistines had also raided the cities of the foothills and the Negev of Judah, capturing and occupying Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, and Gederoth, as well as Soco, Timnah, and Gimzo with their villages.
- בֵּֽית־beit-proper noun (a name)tagged: Beth
- שֶׁ֨מֶשׁshemeshproper noun (a name)tagged: Shemesh
Jeremiah
two uses
He will demolish the sacred pillars of the temple of the sun in the land of Egypt, and he will burn down the temples of the gods of Egypt.’”
- בֵּ֣יתbeitnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: Beth
- שֶׁ֔מֶשׁshemeshnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: Shemesh
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.