TBESH · H8068
שָׁמִיר · sha.mir · thorn
1) thorn(s), adamant, flint 1a) thorns, thorn-bushes 1b) adamant (as sharp) 1c) a sharp stone, flint 1c1) perhaps a diamond
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sha.mir H8068
שָׁמִיר (sha.mir) means “thorn” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
שָׁמִיר Hebrew · H8068 11 tagged occurrences in 11 verses
Pronunciation guide: shaw-meer' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
from H8104 (שָׁמַר) in the original sense of pricking; a thorn; also (from its keenness for scratching) a gem, probably the diamond
KJV glosses: adamant (stone), brier, diamond.
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How translators render H8068
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| and briers | 4 |
| and thistles | 1 |
| briers | 1 |
| like a diamond | 1 |
| like flint | 1 |
| of the briers | 1 |
| only briers | 1 |
| with a diamond | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| briers | 2 |
| the briers | 2 |
| an adamant stone | 1 |
| and his briers | 1 |
| as an adamant | 1 |
| be for briers | 1 |
| of a diamond | 1 |
| of briers | 1 |
| shall become briers | 1 |
Verses containing H8068
Page 1 of 1. 11 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Isaiah 5:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”
Read word by word - Isaiah 7:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.
Read word by word - Isaiah 7:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Men will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns.
Read word by word - Isaiah 7:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.
Read word by word - Isaiah 9:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets, which roll upward in billows of smoke.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 9.17
- Isaiah 10:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles.
Read word by word - Isaiah 27:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.
Read word by word - Isaiah 32:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 17:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 3:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I will make your forehead like a diamond, harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them or dismayed at their presence, even though they are a rebellious house.”
Read word by word - Zechariah 7:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts.
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