8068 - shamir

Strong's Concordance

Original word: שָׁמִיר
Transliteration: shamir
Definition (short): briars
Definition (full): a thorn, a gem, the diamond

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: from an unused word
Definition: a thorn, adamant, flint
NASB Translation: briars (8), diamond (1), emery (1), flint (1).
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From shamar in the original sense of pricking; a thorn; also (from its keenness for scratching) a gem, probably the diamond -- adamant (stone), brier, diamond.

see HEBREW shamar

References

Strong's 8068: 11 Occurrences
KJV: And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
NASB: "I will lay it waste; It will not be pruned or hoed, But briars and thorns will come up. I will also charge the clouds to rain no rain on it."
KJV: And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
NASB: And it will come about in that day, that every place where there used to be a thousand vines, valued at a thousand shekels of silver, will become briars and thorns.
KJV: With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
NASB: People will come there with bows and arrows because all the land will be briars and thorns.
KJV: And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.
NASB: As for all the hills which used to be cultivated with the hoe, you will not go there for fear of briars and thorns; but they will become a place for pasturing oxen and for sheep to trample.
KJV: For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
NASB: For wickedness burns like a fire; It consumes briars and thorns; It even sets the thickets of the forest aflame And they roll upward in a column of smoke.