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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:

Job 15:17: "I will show thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;"
Job 16:2: " I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all."
Job 20:3: " I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer."
Job 21:2: " Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations."
Job 21:2: " Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations."
Job 22:27: "Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows."
Job 26:14: "but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?"
Job 27:9: "Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon"
Job 28:22: "Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears."
Job 29:11: "When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness"
Job 29:21: " Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel."
Job 31:35: "Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary"
Job 32:10: "Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will show mine opinion."
Job 33:1: "Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words."
Job 33:8: "Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words,"
Job 33:31: "Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I will speak."
Job 33:33: "If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisdom."
Job 34:2: " Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge."
Job 34:10: "Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness;"
Job 34:16: "If now thou hast understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice of my words."
Job 34:28: "of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted."
Job 34:34: "tell me, and let a wise man hearken"
Job 35:13: "Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard"
Job 36:11: "If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures."
Job 36:12: "But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge."
Job 37:2: " Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth."
Job 37:2: " Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth."
Job 37:4: "stay them when his voice is heard."
Job 39:7: "the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver."
Job 42:4: " Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare"
Job 42:5: " I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth"
Psalms 4:1: "thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer."
Psalms 4:3: "hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto"
Psalms 5:3: "My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up."
Psalms 6:8: "of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping."
Psalms 6:9: "The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer."
Psalms 10:17: "LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:"
Psalms 17:1: "A Prayer of David. Hear the right, O LORD attend unto my cry, give ear"
Psalms 17:6: "me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech."
Psalms 18:6: "and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry"
Psalms 18:44: "As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit"
Psalms 19:3: "language, where their voice is not heard."
Psalms 22:24: "from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard."
Psalms 26:7: " That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works."
Psalms 27:7: " Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer"
Psalms 28:2: " Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward"
Psalms 28:6: "Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications."
Psalms 30:10: " Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper."
Psalms 31:13: "For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel"
Psalms 31:22: "from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried"









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