. . "Shamash (Akkadian: \u0160ama\u0161, \"Sun\") was a native Mesopotamian deity and the Sun god in the Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian, and Hebrew pantheons. Shamash was the god of justice in Babylonia and Assyria, corresponding to Sumerian Utu. Akkadian \u0161ama\u0161 is cognate to Syriac \u072B\u0721\u072B\u0710 \u0161em\u0161a or \u0161im\u0161u Hebrew \u05E9\u05B6\u05C1\u05DE\u05B6\u05E9\u05C1 \u0161eme\u0161 and Arabic \u0634\u0645\u0633 \u0161ams."@en . . .