שָׁמִירShâmîyr

Shamir, the name of two places in Palestine

Pronunciation: shaw-meer' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8069

Meanings

1. in הֵר אֶפְרַיִם (Judges 10:1; Judges 10:2)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 4 times in the Bible.

  • Joshua 15:48 Judah also received the following towns in the hill country: Shamir, Jattir, Socoh,
  • Judges 10:1 After Abimelech died, Tola son of Puah, son of Dodo, was the next person to rescue Israel. He was from the tribe of Issachar but lived in the town of Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.
  • Judges 10:2 He judged Israel for twenty-three years. When he died, he was buried in Shamir.
  • 1 Chronicles 24:24 From the descendants of Uzziel, the leader was Micah. From the descendants of Micah, the leader was Shamir,

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).