◄ H8068 ►
שׁמיר
Transliteration
shamiyr;
Pronunciation
shaw-meer'
Parts of Speech
n m
Root Word (Etymology)
from 8104 in the original sense of pricking
Dictionary Aids
TWOT Reference: 2416a
KJV Translation Count — 11x
The KJV translates Strongs H1 in the following manner: brier (8), adamant (1), adamant stone (1), diamond (1)
Outline of Biblical Usage
1. thorn(s), adamant, flint
a. thorns, thorn-bushes
b. adamant (as sharp)
c. a sharp stone, flint
1. perhaps a diamond
Strong's Definitions
shamiyr, shaw-meer'; from 8104 in the original sense of pricking; a thorn; also (from its keenness for scratching) a gem, probably the diamond: — adamant (stone), brier, diamond.
Concordance Results Using KJV
And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up H8068s and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
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 H8068s and thorns.
With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become H8068s and thorns.
And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of H8068s and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.
For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the H8068s and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
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 H8068s in one day;
Fury is not in me: who would set the H8068s and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and H8068s; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a H8068: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
As an H8068 harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.