# H8068 שָׁמִיר

שָׁמִיר (shâmîyr), Strong’s H8068: a thorn; also (from its keenness for scratching) a gem, probably the diamond KJV: adamant (stone), brier, diamond.. Occurs 11 times.

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

KJV: adamant (stone), brier, diamond.

Derived from [שָׁמַר shâmar](https://besorah.bible/word/H8104) (to hedge about)

Occurs 11 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- שָׁמִיר n.m. thorn(s), adamant, flint

## Where it occurs
- [Isaiah 5:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/5?v=6) — I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned or hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the…
- [Isaiah 7:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/7?v=23) — It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, will be…
- [Isaiah 7:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/7?v=24) — People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns.
- [Isaiah 7:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/7?v=25) — All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall…
- [Isaiah 9:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/9?v=17) — For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and…
- [Isaiah 10:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/10?v=17) — The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his…
- [Isaiah 27:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/27?v=4) — Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn…
- [Isaiah 32:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/32?v=13) — Thorns and briers will come up on my people’s land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
- [Jeremiah 17:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/17?v=1) — “The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond. It is engraved on the tablet of their…
- [Ezekiel 3:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/3?v=9) — I have made your forehead as a diamond, harder than flint. Don’t be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks…