Word Study · Strong's H8069 · Hebrew
שָׁמִיר
Shamir
shaw-meer'
Strong's 1890 spelling: Shâmîyr
“Shamir, the name of two places in Palestine”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Shamir, the name of two places in Palestine
Rendered in the KJV as
Shamir. Compare H8053 (שָׁמוּר).
- 4occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 3 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 4inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 4 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 4
- בְּשָׁמִ֖יר1
- בְּשָׁמִֽיר׃ פ1
- שָׁמִ֥יר1
- שָׁמִֽיר׃1
How it is rendered · 2
- in Shamir2
- Shamir2
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 3
- preposition + proper noun (a name)2
- proper noun (a name)1
- proper noun (a name)1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HR/Npl · 2
- HNpl · 1
- HNpm · 1
All 4, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
Judges carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.
Joshua1 occurrence
Judges2 occurrences
- Judges 10:1בְּשָׁמִ֖ירbeshamirpreposition + proper noun (a name)After the time of Abimelech, a man of Issachar, Tola son of Puah, the son of Dodo, rose up to save Israel. He lived in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim.here: in Shamir
- Judges 10:2בְּשָׁמִֽיר׃ פbeshamirpreposition + proper noun (a name)Tola judged Israel twenty-three years, and when he died, he was buried in Shamir.here: in Shamir
Same headword in Strong's