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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
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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

H8068

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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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:6 - I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and briers and thorns will grow there. I will command the clouds not to rain on it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:23 - In that day, in every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels,[fn] there will be only briers and thorns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:24 - Hunters will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:25 - As for all the hills once cultivated by the hoe, you will no longer go there for fear of the briers and thorns; they will become places where cattle are turned loose and where sheep run.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:18 - Surely wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns, it sets the forest thickets ablaze, so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:17 - The Light of Israel will become a fire, their Holy One a flame; in a single day it will burn and consume his thorns and his briers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:4 - I am not angry. If only there were briers and thorns confronting me! I would march against them in battle; I would set them all on fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:13 - and for the land of my people, a land overgrown with thorns and briers— yes, mourn for all houses of merriment and for this city of revelry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:1 - “Judah’s sin is engraved with an iron tool, inscribed with a flint point, on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:9 - I will make your forehead like the hardest stone, harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them or terrified by them, though they are a rebellious people.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:12 - They made their hearts as hard as flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD Almighty had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. So the LORD Almighty was very angry.
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