Shamir in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("a sharp point".) 1. A town in the mountains of Judah (Joshua 15:48); probably eight or nine miles S. of Hebron. 2. The judge Tola's home and burial place in Mount Ephraim (Judges 10:1-2). Why Tola of Issachar dwelt there is uncertain; either for security from the Canaanites, or Issachar may have possessed some towns in the Ephraim mountains. Van de Velde identifies Shamir with Khirbet Sammer, a ruin in the mountains overlooking the Jordan valley, ten miles E.S.E. of Nablus.