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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H8068 — שָׁמִיר
sha.mir · thorn · Hebrew/Aramaic
10 tagged verse occurrences
Isaiah 5:6 · שָׁמִ֖ירI 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.”Isaiah 7:23 · לַשָּׁמִ֥ירAnd on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.Isaiah 7:24 · שָׁמִ֥ירMen will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns.Isaiah 7:25 · שָׁמִ֣ירFor 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.Isaiah 9:18 · שָׁמִ֥ירFor wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets, which roll upward in billows of smoke.Isaiah 10:17 · וּשְׁמִיר֖וֹAnd 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.Isaiah 27:4 · שָׁמִ֥ירI am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.Isaiah 32:13 · שָׁמִ֖ירand for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.Jeremiah 17:1 · שָׁמִ֑יר“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.Zechariah 7:12 · שָׁמִ֗ירThey 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.