Hebrew noun (masculine) · H8068
שָׁמִיר
shamirshaw-meer'
thorn
11 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shâmîyr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8068is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8068
a thorn; also (from its keenness for scratching) a gem, probably the diamond
The King James renders it: adamant (stone), brier, diamond.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
shamir is rendered "thorn". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Eight of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Isaiah 5:6I 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.”
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
I 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.”
Isaiah 5:6שָׁמִ֖יר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eight of the word's eleven uses are in Isaiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- thorn6
- flint2
- and thorn his1
- into the thorn1
- like diamond1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| שָׁמַע | shama | to hear: hear | Uses1,159 |
| שָׁמַר | shamar | to keep: obey | Uses468 |
| שָׁמַיִם | shamayim | heaven | Uses421 |
| שָׁמַד | shamad | to destroy | Uses90 |
| שָׁמֵם | shamem | be desolate: destroyed | Uses86 |
| שָׁמַיִן | shamayin | heaven | Uses38 |
| שָׁמֵן | shamen | rich | Uses10 |
| שָׁמַט | shamat | to release | Uses9 |
| שָׁמֵם | shamem | devastated | Uses6 |
| שָׁמַן | shaman | to grow fat | Uses5 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- שָׁמִ֥יר3
- שָׁמִ֖יר2
- וּשְׁמִיר֖וֹ1
- כְּשָׁמִ֛יר1
- לַשָּׁמִ֥יר1
- שָׁמִ֣יר1
- שָׁמִ֑יר1
- שָׁמִ֗יר1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular8HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/Ncmsc/Sp3ms
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa
Isaiah
eight uses
I 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.”
- שָׁמִ֖ירshamirnoun · masculine singulartagged: thorn
And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.
- לַשָּׁמִ֥ירlashamirpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: into the thorn
Men will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns.
- שָׁמִ֥ירshamirnoun · masculine singulartagged: thorn
For 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.
- שָׁמִ֣ירshamirnoun · masculine singulartagged: thorn
For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets which roll upward in billows of smoke.
- שָׁמִ֥ירshamirnoun · masculine singulartagged: thorn
And 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.
- וּשְׁמִיר֖וֹushemiroconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and thorn his
I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.
- שָׁמִ֥ירshamirnoun · masculine singulartagged: thorn
and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.
- שָׁמִ֖ירshamirnoun · masculine singulartagged: thorn
Jeremiah
one use
“The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.
- שָׁמִ֑ירshamirnoun · masculine singulartagged: flint
Ezekiel
one use
I will make your forehead like a diamond, harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them or dismayed at their presence, even though they are a rebellious house.”
- כְּשָׁמִ֛ירkeshamirpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like diamond
Zechariah
one use
They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts.
- שָׁמִ֗ירshamirnoun · masculine singulartagged: flint
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.