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:
ׁ
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:
2 Chronicles 33:13: "And prayed unto him: and he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom."
2 Chronicles 34:19: "And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent"
2 Chronicles 34:26: "of Israel concerning the words which thou hast heard;"
2 Chronicles 34:27: "and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against"
2 Chronicles 34:27: "thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee also, saith the LORD."
2 Chronicles 35:22: "him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho"
Ezra 3:13: "with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off."
Ezra 4:1: "Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity built"
Ezra 9:3: " And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle,"
Nehemiah 1:4: "And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned"
Nehemiah 1:6: "attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which"
Nehemiah 2:10: "and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that"
Nehemiah 2:19: "the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said,"
Nehemiah 4:1: "But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we built"
Nehemiah 4:4: " Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon"
Nehemiah 4:7: "and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up,"
Nehemiah 4:15: "And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to naught,"
Nehemiah 4:20: "In what place therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither"
Nehemiah 5:6: "And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words."
Nehemiah 6:1: "the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had built the wall,"
Nehemiah 6:6: "Wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think"
Nehemiah 6:7: "There is a king in Judah: and now shall it be reported to the king according to these words. Come"
Nehemiah 6:16: "that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen that were about"
Nehemiah 8:2: "both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day"
Nehemiah 8:9: "all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law."
Nehemiah 8:15: "And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying,"
Nehemiah 9:9: "the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;"
Nehemiah 9:16: "and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,"
Nehemiah 9:17: "And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among"
Nehemiah 9:27: "when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies"
Nehemiah 9:28: "over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and many times"
Nehemiah 9:29: "thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments,"
Nehemiah 9:29: "the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear."
Nehemiah 12:42: "and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer."
Nehemiah 12:43: "rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off."
Nehemiah 13:3: "Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all"
Nehemiah 13:27: " Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress"
Esther 1:18: "the king's princes, which have heard of the deed of the queen. Thus shall there arise too much"
Esther 1:20: "decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it"
Esther 2:8: "when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto"
Esther 3:4: "when they spoke daily unto him, and he hearkened not unto them, that they told"
Job 2:11: "Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil"
Job 3:18: "There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor."
Job 4:16: "was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice,"
Job 5:27: "we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou"
Job 13:1: "hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood"
Job 13:6: " Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips."
Job 13:17: " Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears."
Job 13:17: " Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears."
Job 15:8: " Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to"
