Shamir

Town

Location disputed Samaria: about 55 km (35 miles) north of Jerusalem

Where Scholars Place It

• Samaria Possible
• Khirbet Samara Less likely

Shamir in the Bible Dictionary · Another Shamir (town · Joshua 15:48)

Named in 2 Verses

• Judges 10:1 And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.
• Judges 10:2 And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.

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