King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H8053
Transliteration: Shamur or Shamir
Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-moor')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: Shamir
Meaning: Shamir
Word Summary
Shamur or Shamir: Shamir
Original Word: שָׁמוּרTransliteration: Shamur or Shamir
Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-moor')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: Shamir
Meaning: Shamir
Strong's Concordance
Shamir Passive participle of shimtsah; observed; Shamur, an Israelite -- Shamir (from the margin).
see HEBREW shimtsah
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H8053. Shamur
or Shamir III. שָׁמִיר proper name, masculine Levite, 1 Chronicles 24:24 Qr, Σαμηρ, Σεμμηρ (Kt שמור).
שׁמשׁ (√ of following; meaning unknown; Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; Phoenician שמש; Assyrian šamšu; Aramaic שִׁמְשָׁא, , Old Aramaic, Palmyrene שמש Lzb379; Arabic , Sabean שמסם goddess, SabDenkm20. 56ff. DHMB.u.S. 1032 WklZMG liv (1900), 408 ff. RSK 299 NöZMG xii (1887), 712).