Shamir

The name of two places in Palestine. 1. (A 'Za<l>eip) A town in the hUl- country of Judah (Jos IS"**), which is mentioned in the same group with Jattir and Socoh. Eusebius and Jerome from the reading of A alter the name to Shaphir (see Nowack, Kl. Provh. on Mic 1"). Conder (PEF Mem. iii. 262) identifies it with Khurbet SOmerah, which lies west of Dcbtr, and in this agrees with Gu^rin (Judie, iii. 364, 'Sumra'). 2.

(A Sa^dpeio) The home and burial-place of Tola, a man of Issachar, who judged Israel for twenty-three years (Jg 10''*). Shamir was in Mt. Ephraim, and Schwarz (151) identifies it with Sanilr, a picturesquely situated village between Samaria and En-gannim (Jenin). C. W. Wilson.