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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 make it a wasteland.

It will not be pruned or weeded;

thorns and briers will grow up.

I will also give orders to the clouds

that rain should not fall on it.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:23 -

And on that day

every place where there were a thousand vines,

worth a thousand pieces of silver,

will become thorns and briers.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:24 -

A man will go there with bow and arrows

because the whole land will be thorns and briers.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:25 -

You will not go to all the hills

that were once tilled with a hoe,

for fear of the thorns and briers.

Those hills will be places for oxen to graze

and for sheep to trample.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:18 -

For wickedness burns like a fire

that consumes thorns and briers

and kindles the forest thickets

so that they go up in a column of smoke.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:17 -

Israel’s Light will become a fire,

and its Holy One, a flame.

In one day it will burn and consume Assyria’s thorns and thistles.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:4 -

I am not angry.

If only there were thorns and briers for me to battle,

I would trample them

and burn them to the ground.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:13 -

for the ground of my people

growing thorns and briers,

indeed, for every joyous house in the jubilant city.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:1 -

The sin of Judah is inscribed

with an iron stylus.

With a diamond point

it is engraved on the tablet of their hearts

and on the horns of their[fn] altars,

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:9 -

“I have made your forehead like a diamond, harder than flint. Don’t be afraid of them or discouraged by the look on their faces, though they are a rebellious house.”

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:12 -

“They made their hearts like a rock so as not to obey the law or the words that the LORD of Armies had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore intense anger came from the LORD of Armies.

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