Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
Beth-shemesh
Usage: § Beth-shemesh = "house of the sun" or "sun-temple" a town in southwest Judah
meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G1053 — galatia in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H1053 בֵּיתּ שֶׁמֶשׁ is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. Beyth Shemesh (bayth sheh'-mesh) n/l. 1. house of (the) sun 2. Beth-Shemesh, a place in Israel It has 19 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include bethshemesh. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
Beyth Shemesh (bayth sheh'-mesh) n/l. 1. house of (the) sun 2. Beth-Shemesh, a place in Israel [from H1004 and H8121] KJV: Beth-shemesh. Root(s): H1004, H8121
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Beth-shemesh
Usage: § Beth-shemesh = "house of the sun" or "sun-temple" a town in southwest Judah
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Strong's H1053, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
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19 indexed usages in 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:
And the coast reacheth to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and Bethshemesh; and the outgoings of their border were at Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.
And Iron, and Migdalel, Horem, and Bethanath, and Bethshemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.
First 19 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1053.
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:
And the coast reacheth to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and Bethshemesh; and the outgoings of their border were at Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.
And Iron, and Migdalel, Horem, and Bethanath, and Bethshemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.
And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, and Bethshemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.
Neither 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.
And 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.
And 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.
And they of Bethshemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.
And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD, and the coffer that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Bethshemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the LORD.
And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.
And the men of Bethshemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Bethshemesh, and Elonbethhanan:
But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
And Ashan with her suburbs, and Bethshemesh with her suburbs:
So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another in the face, both he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Bethshemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Bethshemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt there.
He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.
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Strong's H1053 is a Hebrew entry for H1053 בֵּיתּ שֶׁמֶשׁ. Beyth Shemesh (bayth sheh'-mesh) n/l. 1. house of (the) sun 2. Beth-Shemesh, a place in Israel
This page currently indexes 19 linked usages for Strong's H1053 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1053 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as bethshemesh. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.