Strong's H8068

שָׁמִיר

Transliteration

shâmîyr

Pronunciation

shaw-meer'

Definition

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

KJV usage

adamant (stone), brier, diamond.

Derivation

from H8104 (שָׁמַר) in the original sense of pricking;

From Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890), Hebrew dictionary. Data: Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA.