# שָׁמִיר (shamir)

Israeli respelling: sha-mir. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H8068. 11 Old Testament occurrences.

a thorn; also (from its keenness for scratching) a gem, probably the diamond

King James renderings: adamant (stone), brier, diamond.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/shamir-h8068

## Occurrences

- [Isaiah 5:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Isaiah 7:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 eve…
- [Isaiah 7:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/7/24) — With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
- [Isaiah 7:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Isaiah 9:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 m…
- [Isaiah 10:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 da…
- [Isaiah 27:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 h…
- [Ezekiel 3:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 ho…
- [Zechariah 7:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 spir…