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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #5905 - עִיר שֶׁמֶשׁ

Transliteration

ʻÎyr Shemesh

Phonetics

err sheh'-mesh

Root Word (Etymology)

from (H5892) and (H8121)

Parts of Speech

proper locative noun

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Ir-shemesh = “city of the sun-god”

1) a city in Dan; probably the same as ‘Beth-shemesh’

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (1)

Joshua 1

NAS (1)

Joshua 1

BSB (0)

BSB (1)

Joshua 1

ESV (1)

Joshua 1

WEB (1)

Joshua 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

עִיר שָׁ֑מֶשׁ proper name, of a location ( city of the sun(-god)), assigned to Dan Joshua 19:41 (P), = ׳בֵּית שׁ q. v.; πόλεις Σαμμαυς, A ᵐ5^L πόλις Σαμες.

List of Word Forms

שָֽׁמֶשׁ׃ שמש׃ šā·meš šāmeš Shamesh