Smith’s Bible Dictionary

Shamir

(n point or thorn.)

A town in the mountain district of Judah. (Joshua 15:48) only. It probably lay some eight or ten miles south of Hebron.

A place in Mount Ephraim, the residence and burial-place of Tola the judge. (Judges 10:1,2) Perhaps Samur , half-way between Samaria and Jenin .

A Kohathite, son of Micah or Michal, the first-born of Uzziel. (1 Chronicles 24:24)

Smith’s Bible Dictionary, William Smith (1863). Public domain, from the CrossWire SWORD module.