Strong's #8085: shama` (pronounced shaw-mah')
a primitive root; to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.):--X attentively, call (gather) together, X carefully, X certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, X diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear(-ken, tell), X indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim(-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, X surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth), witness.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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shâma‛
1) to hear, listen to, obey (verb)
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to hear (perceive by ear)
1a2) to hear of or concerning
1a3) to hear (have power to hear)
1a4) to hear with attention or interest, listen to
1a5) to understand (language)
1a6) to hear (of judicial cases)
1a7) to listen, give heed
1a7a) to consent, agree
1a7b) to grant request
1a8) to listen to, yield to
1a9) to obey, be obedient
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be heard (of voice or sound)
1b2) to be heard of
1b3) to be regarded, be obeyed
1c) (Piel) to cause to hear, call to hear, summon
1d) (Hiphil)
1d1) to cause to hear, tell, proclaim, utter a sound
1d2) to sound aloud (musical term)
1d3) to make proclamation, summon
1d4) to cause to be heard
2) sound (noun masculine)
Part of Speech: see above in Definition
Relation: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 2412, 2412a
Usage:
This word is used 1158 times:
1 Kings 22:28: "the LORD hath not spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, O people, every"
2 Kings 3:21: "And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to fight against them, they gathered all"
2 Kings 5:8: "so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent"
2 Kings 6:30: "And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent"
2 Kings 7:1: "Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD,"
2 Kings 7:6: "had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses,"
2 Kings 9:30: "was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired"
2 Kings 10:6: "If ye be mine, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads"
2 Kings 11:13: "And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to"
2 Kings 13:4: "the LORD, and the LORD hearkened unto him: for he saw"
2 Kings 14:11: "But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he"
2 Kings 16:9: "And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against"
2 Kings 17:14: "Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that"
2 Kings 17:40: "Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner."
2 Kings 18:12: "Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed"
2 Kings 18:12: "the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear them, nor do"
2 Kings 18:26: "in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' language"
2 Kings 18:28: "in the Jews' language, and spoke, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king"
2 Kings 18:31: " Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king"
2 Kings 18:32: "and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah,"
2 Kings 19:1: "And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself"
2 Kings 19:4: "It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rab-shakeh,"
2 Kings 19:4: "which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant"
2 Kings 19:6: "Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants"
2 Kings 19:7: "Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumor, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall"
2 Kings 19:8: "against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish."
2 Kings 19:9: " And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out"
2 Kings 19:11: "Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done"
2 Kings 19:16: "LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see:"
2 Kings 19:16: "LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which"
2 Kings 19:20: "Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard."
2 Kings 19:25: "Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times"
2 Kings 20:5: "the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen"
2 Kings 20:12: "unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick."
2 Kings 20:13: "And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and showed them all the house of his precious things,"
2 Kings 20:16: "said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD."
2 Kings 21:9: " But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than"
2 Kings 21:12: "and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle."
2 Kings 22:11: "And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent"
2 Kings 22:13: "against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this"
2 Kings 22:18: "of Israel, As touching the words which thou hast heard;"
2 Kings 22:19: "and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spoke against"
2 Kings 22:19: "and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD."
2 Kings 25:23: "of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made"
1 Chronicles 10:11: "And when all Jabesh-gilead heard all that the Philistines"
1 Chronicles 14:8: "And when the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over all"
1 Chronicles 14:8: "David. And David heard of it, and went out against"
1 Chronicles 14:15: "And it shall be, when thou shalt hear a sound of going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then"
1 Chronicles 15:16: "psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy."
1 Chronicles 15:19: "Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound with cymbals of brass;"
