שָׁמִיר
shâmîyr · H8068 · Hebrew · 11 occurrences
Thing
Meanings
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adamant
A legendary rock or mineral, known for its hardness; associated with an inflexible mind
ExamplesJeremiah 17:1 The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus; With a diamond point it is engraved on the tablet of their hearts And on the horns of their altars,
Ezekiel 3:9 “Like emery harder than flint I have made your forehead. Do not be afraid of them or be dismayed before them, since they are a rebellious house.”
Zechariah 7:12 “They also made their hearts as hard as a diamond so that they could not hear the Law and the words which the LORD of armies had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets; therefore great wrath came from the LORD of armies.
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brier
Small shrub with thorns; associated with things of no value, aggression, and destruction
ExamplesIsaiah 5:6 “I will lay it waste; It will not be pruned nor hoed, But briars and thorns will come up. I will also command the clouds not to rain on it.”
Isaiah 7:23 And it will come about on that day, that every place where there used to be a thousand vines, valued at a thousand shekels of silver, will become briars and thorns.
Isaiah 7:24 People will come there with bows and arrows, because all the land will be briars and thorns.
How it’s used In 7 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּhis 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- חָזָקstrong, powerful, mighty 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עָלָהto go up 1
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- אָכַלto eat, to devour 2
- עָלָהto go up 1
Second object ofSecond object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
- שׂוּםto put, to set, to place 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- כlike/as 2
- לto/for 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- יִרְאָהfear 1
- צִפֹּרֶןnail 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 4 entries
- Gemstones001003001001009
- שָׁמִיר (shâmîyr, H8068) is a common noun denoting a hard stone ("diamond," i.e. an emery-like abrasive used for engraving) as well as a thorn/briar, as in occurrences glossed "of diamond"/"thorn[s]." The quotation "With a diamond point it is engraved on the tablet of their hearts" at Jeremiah 17:1 shows this hard-stone sense, which is a genuine sense of this lexeme's own occurrences, independent of the bundle-shared classification recorded alongside its place-name partner שָׁמִיר (Shâmîyr, H8069).
- Plants001002007001
- This noun denotes a thorny plant, a brier, as in Isaiah 5:6's description of a vineyard left to grow up in briars and thorns.
- Names of Locations003001010
- שָׁמִיר (shâmîyr, H8068) is a common noun denoting a thorn/briar or a hard stone ("diamond," i.e. an emery-like abrasive), as in occurrences glossed "thorn[s]"/"of diamond." This sense does not independently attest the "Names of Locations" domain; that classification is bundle-shared with שָׁמִיר (Shâmîyr, H8069) in the source data and is not confirmed by this lexeme's own occurrences.
- Names of People003001007
- שָׁמִיר (shâmîyr, H8068) is a common noun denoting a thorn/briar or a hard stone ("diamond," i.e. an emery-like abrasive), as in occurrences glossed "thorn[s]"/"of diamond." This sense does not independently attest the "Names of People" domain; that classification is bundle-shared with שָׁמִיר (Shâmîyr, H8069) in the source data and is not confirmed by this lexeme's own occurrences.
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8068. shamir I. שָׁמִיר noun masculine: Eze 3:9 thorn(s), adamant, flint; — absolute ׳שׁ…
I. שָׁמִיר noun masculine: Eze 3:9 thorn(s), adamant, flint; — absolute ׳שׁ Isa 5:6 +; suffix שְׁמִירוֺ Isa 10:17; —
1 collective thorns, thorn-bushes, token of waste-land, only Isaiah, + שַׁיִת Isa 5:6; Isa 7:23-24, Isa 7:25; Isa 27:4; figurative Isa 9:17; Isa 10:17; שׁ ׳קוֺץ Isa 32:13.
2 adamant, as sharp, ׳שׁ בְּצִמֹּרֶן ֗֗֗ כְּתוּבָה Jer 17:1 (|| בַּדְוֶל בְּעֵט); as hard, figurative of prophet's firmness Eze 3:9; Zec 7:12 figurative of hard heart.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 4 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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