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Solomon's shamir, according to Eberhard Werner Happel, 1707 [1] In the Gemara, the shamir (Hebrew: שָׁמִיר šāmīr) is a worm or a substance that had the power to cut through or disintegrate stone, iron and diamond. King Solomon is said to have used it in the building of the first Temple in Jerusalem in place of cutting tools. For ...
According to the Bible, Tola (Hebrew: תּוֹלָע, Modern: Tōlaʿ, Tiberian: Tōlāʿ ) was one of the Judges of Israel. His career is summarised in Judges 10:1-2. He judged Israel for 23 years after Abimelech died. He lived at Shamir in Mount Ephraim, where he was also buried. His name means "Crimson worm" or "scarlet stuff."
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Shamir (Hebrew: שמיר) is a Hebrew surname. Notable people with the surname include: Notable people with the surname include: Adi Shamir (born 1952), Israeli cryptographer
Solomon's shamir, a worm described in the Talmud and Midrash as being capable of cutting through or disintegrating stone, used in the construction of the First Temple in Jerusalem; Shamir, Israel, an Israeli kibbutz; Shamir, minor biblical place; Shamir (album), studio album by Shamir (musician) Shamir Medical Center
Films about worms, a term used for many different distantly related bilateral animals that typically have a long cylindrical tube-like body, no limbs, and no eyes (though not always). In biology, "worm" refers to an obsolete taxon , vermes , used by Carolus Linnaeus and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck for all non- arthropod invertebrate animals , now ...
Abū al-Sābigha Shamir ibn Dhī al-Jawshan (Arabic: أبو السابغة شمر بن ذي الجوشن), often known as Shamir or Shimar, was an Arab military commander from Kufa who killed Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, at the Battle of Karbala in 680.
Worm theology is the idea in Christian culture that in light of God's holiness and power an appropriate emotion is a humble view of self. [ citation needed ] The name may be attributed to a line in the Isaac Watts hymn Alas! and Did My Saviour Bleed (Pub 1707) [ 1 ] which says "Would he devote that sacred head for such a worm as I?"