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(bĕth-shē'mĕsh) , in the Bible.

1 The Egyptian Heliopolis.

2 Town of ancient Palestine, the modern Tel Bet Shemesh (Israel), W of Jerusalem. Excavations there have revealed traces of the Egyptian occupation in the 2d millennium B. C. It also appears as Ir-shemesh.

3 Town of Issachar.

4 Unidentified town of Naphtali.

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