shamir · thorn; hard stone

What it means

shamir (שָׁמִיר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “thorn; hard stone”.

A thorn or briar; also a very hard stone, probably the diamond, used for engraving.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Thorny plants on abandoned land.
2. An extremely hard stone used to engrave or cut.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• briers ×8
• Like diamond ×2
• diamond ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Isaiah×8
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Zechariah×1

• Isaiah 5:6

  And I will make it a waste; it will not be pruned or hoed, and briers and thorns will come up; and the clouds I will command not to rain rain on it.

• Isaiah 7:23

  And it will happen on that day that every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand pieces of silver will become briers and thorns.

• Isaiah 7:24

  With arrows and with bow one will go there, for all the land will be briers and thorns.

• Isaiah 7:25

  And all the mountains that used to be hoed with the hoe, you will not go there for fear of briers and thorns; and it will become a place for letting loose oxen and for trampling by sheep.

• Isaiah 9:18

  For wickedness burns like a fire; it devours briers and thorns, and it kindles the thickets of the forest, and they roll up in a column of smoke.

• Isaiah 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 briers in one day.

• Isaiah 27:4

  Fury I do not have. Oh that someone would give me briers and thorns in battle! I would march against it, I would set it on fire all together.

• Isaiah 32:13

  on the ground of my people thornbushes and briers come up; yes, on all the houses of joy, the exultant town.

• Jeremiah 17:1

  The sin of Judah is written with a chisel of iron, with a point of diamond; it is engraved on the tablet of their heart and on the horns of your altars,

• Ezekiel 3:9

  Like diamond, harder than flint, I have made your forehead; do not fear them, and do not be dismayed at their faces, for they are a rebellious house.”

• Zechariah 7:12

  And their heart they made like diamond, so as not to hear the instruction and the words that YHWH Tsevaot sent by his spirit through the former prophets; and there was great anger from YHWH Tsevaot.