שָׁמִיר
sha.mir (H8068)
thorn
AI Word Study
The Hebrew word שָׁמִיר (sha.mir) is defined as "thorn" and belongs to the semantic domain of Creation & Nature. This word appears 11 times in the Bible, which suggests that thorns held some significance or played a notable role in various biblical contexts. The frequency of occurrence and its classification under the creation & nature domain imply that thorns could be a natural aspect of the world, potentially related to wilderness, vegetation, or perhaps even danger, as thorns often cause physical harm. The limited information available, however, does not reveal the exact relationship between thorns and the contexts in which they appear. Given its singular definition and limited context within creation and nature, it can be inferred that the concept of thorns, as conveyed by שָׁמִיר, is primarily descriptive of a real-world object or experience, and its biblical significance might be better understood by examining its specific occurrences in the text.
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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 clouds that they rain no rain on it.”
It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns.
People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns.
All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending out of oxen, and for sheep to tread on.”
For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
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 briers in one day.
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 them together.
Thorns and briers will come up on my people’s land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
“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 heart, and on the horns of your altars.
I have made your forehead as a diamond, harder than flint. Don’t be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.”
Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies.