Word Study · Strong's H8068 · Hebrew
שָׁמִיר
shamir
shaw-meer'
Strong's 1890 spelling: shâmîyr
“a thorn”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
a thorn; also (from its keenness for scratching) a gem, probably the diamond
Rendered in the KJV as
adamant (stone), brier, diamond.
- 11occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 4 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 8inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 11 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 8
- שָׁמִ֥יר3
- שָׁמִ֖יר2
- וּשְׁמִיר֖וֹ1
- כְּשָׁמִ֛יר1
- לַשָּׁמִ֥יר1
- שָׁמִ֣יר1
- שָׁמִ֑יר1
- שָׁמִ֗יר1
How it is rendered · 5
- thorn[s]6
- flint2
- and thorn[s] his1
- into the thorn[s]1
- like diamond1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 4
- noun · masculine singular8
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNcmsa · 8
- HC/Ncmsc/Sp3ms · 1
- HR/Ncmsa · 1
- HRd/Ncmsa · 1
All 11, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
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Isaiah8 occurrences
- Isaiah 5:6שָׁמִ֖ירshamirnoun · masculine singularI will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”here: thorn[s]
- Isaiah 7:23לַשָּׁמִ֥ירlashamirpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singularAnd on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.here: into the thorn[s]
- Isaiah 7:24שָׁמִ֥ירshamirnoun · masculine singularMen will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns.here: thorn[s]
- Isaiah 7:25שָׁמִ֣ירshamirnoun · masculine singularFor fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.here: thorn[s]
- Isaiah 9:18שָׁמִ֥ירshamirnoun · masculine singularFor wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets which roll upward in billows of smoke.here: thorn[s]
- Isaiah 10:17וּשְׁמִיר֖וֹushemiroconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singularAnd the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles.here: and thorn[s] his
- Isaiah 27:4שָׁמִ֥ירshamirnoun · masculine singularI am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.here: thorn[s]
- Isaiah 32:13שָׁמִ֖ירshamirnoun · masculine singularand for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers— even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.here: thorn[s]
Same headword in Strong's