Bible Location
Meaning: Shamer · 2 cross references · Modern-day map available
Shamir was the town in Mount Ephraim where the judge Tola lived and was buried. It is important because it roots one of Israel's lesser-known judges in a specific local setting. First appears in Judg 10:1.1
AI summary: Shamir matters because the judges were not abstract figures but leaders anchored in real communities. Tola's association with the town gives the brief notice geographical depth and personal finality. The cross references present Shamir as an Ephraimite hill-town of judicial leadership and burial memory.1
The residence of Tola, one of the judges, on Mount Ephraim (Judg. 10:1, 2). 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.