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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
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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

H8068

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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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:6 -

“I will lay it waste;

It will not be pruned or hoed,

But briars H8068 and thorns will come up.

I will also command the clouds to rain no rain on it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:23 -

And it will be in that day, that every place where there used to be one thousand vines, valued at [fn]one thousand shekels of silver, will become briars H8068 and thorns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:24 - People will come there with bows and arrows because all the land will be briars H8068 and thorns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:25 - As for all the hills which used to be cultivated with the hoe, you will not go there for fear of briars H8068 and thorns; but they will become a place for [fn]pasturing oxen and for sheep to trample.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:18 -

For wickedness burns like a fire;

It consumes briars H8068 and thorns;

It even sets the thickets of the forest aflame,

And they roll upward in a column of smoke.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:17 -

And the light of Israel will become a fire and his Holy One a flame,

And it will burn and devour his thorns and his briars H8068 in a single day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:4 -

“I have no wrath.

Who would ever give Me briars H8068 and thorns in the battle?

I would step on them, I would burn them [fn]completely.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:13 -

For the land of my people in which thorns and briars H8068 shall come up,

Indeed, against all the joyful houses and the exultant city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:1 -

The sin of Judah is written down with an iron stylus;

With a diamond H8068 point it is engraved upon the tablet of their heart

And on the horns of [fn]their altars,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:9 - “Like [fn]diamond H8068 stronger than flint I have made your forehead. Do not be afraid of them or be dismayed before them, though they are a rebellious house.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:12 - “And they made their hearts [fn]diamond-hard H8068 [fn]so that they could not hear the law and the words which Yahweh of hosts had sent by His Spirit by the hand of the former prophets; therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of hosts.
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