בֵּית הַשִּׁמְשִׁיBêyth hash-Shimshîy

of foregoing 1, with article (1 Samuel 6:14; 1 Samuel 6:18)

Pronunciation: bayth hash-shim-shee' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1030

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Where it appears

Appears 4 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Samuel 6:14 The cart came into the field of a man named Joshua and stopped beside a large rock. So the people broke up the wood of the cart for a fire and killed the cows and sacrificed them to the Lord as a burnt offering.
  • 1 Samuel 6:18 The five gold rats represented the five Philistine towns and their surrounding villages, which were controlled by the five rulers. The large rock at Beth-shemesh, where they set the Ark of the Lord, still stands in the field of Joshua as a witness to what happened there.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).