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# שָׁמִיר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8068

**thorn** — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

thorn [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8068/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁמִיר: n.m. thorn(s), adamant, flint [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8068/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ez 3:9 thorn(s), adamant, flint;—abs. שׁ׳ Is 5:6 +; sf. שְׁמִירוֹ 10:17;— coll. thorns, thorn-bushes, token of waste-land, only Is, + שַׁיִת Is 5:6; 7:23, 24, 25; 27:4; fig. 9:17; 10:17; קוֹץ שׁ׳ 32:13. adamant, as sharp, כְּתוּבָה … בְּצִפֹּרֶן שׁ׳ Je 17:1 (‖ בְּעֵט בַּרְזֶל); as hard, fig. of prophet’s firmness Ez 3:9; Zc 7:12 fig. of hard heart.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (15 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: thorn\[s\] (7); of thorn\[s\] (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 32:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.32.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.32.13/#tree)

עַ֚ל אַדְמַ֣ת עַמִּ֔י ק֥וֹץ שָׁמִ֖יר תַּֽעֲלֶ֑ה כִּ֚י עַל־כָּל־בָּתֵּ֣י מָשׂ֔וֹשׂ קִרְיָ֖ה עַלִּיזָֽה׃

*Word for word:* on the.land my.people my \[which\].thorn\[s\] thorn\[s\] it.will.grow.up (dm) on all \[the\].houses of.joy a.town exultant

*JPS 1917:* For the land of my people whereon thorns and briers come up; yea, for all the houses of joy and the joyous city.

[Isaiah 7:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.7.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.7.24/#tree)

בַּחִצִּ֥ים וּבַקֶּ֖שֶׁת יָ֣בוֹא שָׁ֑מָּה כִּי־שָׁמִ֥יר וָשַׁ֖יִת תִּֽהְיֶ֥ה כָל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* with (the) arrows and with (the) bow anyone.will.go there (to) (dm) thorn\[s\] and bush\[es\] it.will.be all the land

*JPS 1917:* With arrows and with bow shall one come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8068/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).