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Lexicon :: Strong's H8068 - šāmîr

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שָׁמִיר
Transliteration
šāmîr
Pronunciation
shaw-meer'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From שָׁמַר (H8104) in the original sense of pricking
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2416a

Strong’s Definitions

שָׁמִיר shâmîyr, shaw-meer'; from H8104 in the original sense of pricking; a thorn; also (from its keenness for scratching) a gem, probably the diamond:—adamant (stone), brier, diamond.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x

The KJV translates Strong's H8068 in the following manner: brier (8x), adamant (1x), adamant stone (1x), diamond (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x
The KJV translates Strong's H8068 in the following manner: brier (8x), adamant (1x), adamant stone (1x), diamond (1x).
  1. thorn(s), adamant, flint

    1. thorns, thorn-bushes

    2. adamant (as sharp)

    3. a sharp stone, flint

      1. perhaps a diamond

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שָׁמִיר shâmîyr, shaw-meer'; from H8104 in the original sense of pricking; a thorn; also (from its keenness for scratching) a gem, probably the diamond:—adamant (stone), brier, diamond.
STRONGS H8068: Abbreviations
† I. שָׁמִיר noun masculine: Ezekiel 3:9 thorn(s), adamant, flint; — absolute שׁ׳ Isaiah 5:6 +; suffix שְׁמִירוֺ Isaiah 10:17; —
1. collective thorns, thorn-bushes, token of waste-land, only Isaiah, + שַׁיִת Isaiah 5:6; Isaiah 7:23, 24, 25; Isaiah 27:4; figurative Isaiah 9:17; Isaiah 10:17; קוֺץ שׁ׳ Isaiah 32:13.
2. adamant, as sharp, כְּתוּבָה ֗֗֗ בְּצִמֹּרֶן שׁ׳ Jeremiah 17:1 (|| בְּעֵט בַּדְוֶל); as hard, figurative of prophet's firmness Ezekiel 3:9; Zechariah 7:12 figurative of hard heart.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Isaiah

5:6; 5:6; 7:23; 7:24; 7:25; 9:17; 10:17; 10:17; 27:4; 32:13

Jeremiah

17:1

Ezekiel

3:9; 3:9

Zechariah

7:12

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H8068 matches the Hebrew שָׁמִיר (šāmîr),
which occurs 11 times in 11 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:6 -

“I will turn it into a wasteland;

It will not be pruned or cultivated,

But briars and thorns will come up.

I will also command the clouds not to rain on it.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:23 -

And it will come to pass in that day, in every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand silver shekels, there will be briars and thorns.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:24 - People will come there [to hunt] with arrows and with bows because all the land will be briars and thorns.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:25 - As for all the hills which used to be cultivated with the pick and the hoe, you will no longer go there for fear of briars and thorns; but they will become a place where oxen are pastured and where sheep tread.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:18 -

For wickedness burns like a fire;

It consumes briars and thorns,

It even sets the forest thickets ablaze;

And it swirls upward in a column of smoke.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:17 -

And the Light of Israel will become a fire and His Holy One a flame,

And it will [fn]burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and briars in a single day.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:4 -

“I have no wrath.

Should anyone give Me briars and thorns in battle,

I would step on them, I would set them all on fire.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:13 -

For the land of my people growing over with thorns and briars—

Yes, [mourn] for all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:1 -

The sin of Judah is written down with an iron stylus;

With a diamond point it is engraved upon the tablet of their heart

And on the horns of their altars.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:9 - “I have made your forehead like emery (diamond), harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them or be dismayed before them, though they are a rebellious house.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:12 - “They made their hearts [hard] like flint, so that they could not hear the law and the words which the LORD of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from the LORD of hosts.
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