שָׁמִיר shamir
Hebrew word for “thorn” · Strong’s H8068 · used 11 times in 11 verses
Meaning
1) thorn(s), adamant, flint; 1a) thorns, thorn-bushes; 1b) adamant (as sharp); 1c) a sharp stone, flint; 1c1) perhaps a diamond
How it is translated
Glosses given for shamir in context, with how often each is used:
- thorns 8
- flint 2
- like diamond 1
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Isaiah 7 (3), Isaiah 5 (1), Isaiah 9 (1), Isaiah 10 (1), Isaiah 27 (1), Isaiah 32 (1), Jeremiah 17 (1), Ezekiel 3 (1), Zechariah 7 (1)
Forms
- שׁמיר 8
- לשׁמיר 1
- ושׁמירו 1
- כשׁמיר 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with shamir more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- שַׁיִת shayit “thornbush” 7
- עָדַר adar “to lack” 2
- בָּעַר baar “to burn” 2
- שָׁם sham “there” 3
- אֵשׁ esh “fire” 2
- לֵב lev “heart” 2
- אָכַל akhal “to eat” 2
- עָלָה alah “to ascend” 2
Key verses
The verses using shamir that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Isaiah 5:6 — And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain…
- Isaiah 7:23 — And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and…
- Isaiah 7:24 — With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
- Isaiah 7:25 — And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of…
- Isaiah 9:18 — For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the…
- Isaiah 10:17 — And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;
- Isaiah 27:4 — Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
- Isaiah 32:13 — Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
- Jeremiah 17:1 — The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
- Ezekiel 3:9 — As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
- Zechariah 7:12 — Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former…
See all 11 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.