שֶׁ֫מֶשׁ

The 8 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.

Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.

A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.

A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.

The 41 distinct written forms H8121 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.

Form	Parsing	Example	Uses
הַ/שָּֽׁמֶשׁ	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	Ecclesiastes 1:3	21
הַ/שָּׁ֑מֶשׁ	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	Ecclesiastes 1:5	18
הַ/שֶּׁ֔מֶשׁ	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	Deuteronomy 11:30	17
הַ/שֶּׁ֖מֶשׁ	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	Amos 8:9	9
הַ/שֶּׁ֨מֶשׁ֙	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	Ecclesiastes 12:2	9
הַ/שֶּׁ֗מֶשׁ	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	Deuteronomy 24:15	5
שֶׁ֥מֶשׁ	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	Ecclesiastes 6:5	4
שָׁ֑מֶשׁ	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	Deuteronomy 33:14	4
שָֽׁמֶשׁ	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	Deuteronomy 4:41	4
הַ/שֶּׁ֛מֶשׁ	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	Exodus 22:3	3
שֶׁ֨מֶשׁ֙	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	Isaiah 45:6	3
שֶׁ֣מֶשׁ	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	Psalms 148:3	2
הַ/שֶּׁ֥מֶשׁ	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	2 Samuel 12:11	2
הַ֭/שֶּׁמֶשׁ	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	Psalms 104:22	2
שֶׁ֖מֶשׁ	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	Isaiah 41:25	2
שֶׁ֚מֶשׁ	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	Ezekiel 32:7	2
שֶׁ֝֗מֶשׁ	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	Psalms 50:1	2
שֶׁ֤מֶשׁ	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	Joel 2:10	2
בַּ/שֶּׁ֛מֶשׁ	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	Isaiah 38:8	1
הַ/שֶּׁ֜מֶשׁ	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	Joshua 10:13	1
הַ/שֶּׁ֣מֶשׁ	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	Genesis 37:9	1
הַ/שֶּׁ֨מֶשׁ	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	Deuteronomy 4:19	1
הַ/שֶּׁמֶשׁ֩	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	Joshua 8:29	1
הַ/שֶּׁמֶשׁ֮	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	Joshua 19:27	1
וְ/הַ/שֶּׁ֖מֶשׁ	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	2 Kings 3:22	1
וְ/הַ/שֶּׁ֣מֶשׁ	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	2 Samuel 2:24	1
וְ/לַ/שֶּׁ֣מֶשׁ	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	Deuteronomy 17:3	1
וָ/שָׁ֑מֶשׁ	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	Isaiah 49:10	1
וָ/שָֽׁמֶשׁ	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	Psalms 74:16	1
כַ/שֶּׁ֣מֶשׁ	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	Psalms 89:36	1
לַ/שֶּׁ֤מֶשׁ	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	2 Kings 23:5	1
לַ/שֶּׁ֨מֶשׁ	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	Jeremiah 8:2	1
לַ/שֶּׁ֨מֶשׁ֙	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	2 Kings 23:11	1
לַ/שָּֽׁמֶשׁ	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	Ezekiel 8:16	1
לַ֝/שֶּׁ֗מֶשׁ	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	Psalms 19:4	1
שִׁמְשֵׁ֔/ךְ	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct	Isaiah 60:20	1
שִׁמְשָׁ֛/הּ	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct	Jeremiah 15:9	1
שִׁמְשֹׁתַ֔יִ/ךְ	Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct	Isaiah 54:12	1
שֶׁ֜מֶשׁ	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	Malachi 1:11	1
שֶׁ֨מֶשׁ	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	Psalms 84:11	1
שֶׁמֶשׁ֮	Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute	Psalms 72:17	1

Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8121, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derived from this word

• שמש shᵉmash H8120 to serve
• שמש shemesh H8122 sun

Proper names from this root

People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.

• שמשון Shimshôwn H8123 Samson
• שמשרי Shamshᵉray H8125 Shamsherai

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.

This word appears in 121 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 127 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

Read these verses in the Septuagint

• Genesis 15:12
• Exodus 16:21
• Leviticus 22:7
• Numbers 21:11
• Deuteronomy 4:19
• Joshua 1:4
• Judges 5:31
• 1 Samuel 11:9
• 2 Samuel 2:24
• 1 Kings 22:36
• 2 Kings 3:22
• 2 Chronicles 18:34

This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.