Lexical 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). |