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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:

Isaiah 65:12: "answer; when I spoke, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose"
Isaiah 65:19: "of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying."
Isaiah 65:24: "are yet speaking, I will hear."
Isaiah 66:4: "did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose"
Isaiah 66:5: " Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated"
Isaiah 66:8: "Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth"
Isaiah 66:19: "afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen"
Jeremiah 2:4: " Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house"
Jeremiah 3:13: "green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD."
Jeremiah 3:21: "A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel:"
Jeremiah 3:25: "even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God."
Jeremiah 4:5: "Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land:"
Jeremiah 4:15: "a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount"
Jeremiah 4:16: "Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come"
Jeremiah 4:19: "in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm"
Jeremiah 4:21: "How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?"
Jeremiah 4:31: "For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter"
Jeremiah 5:15: "a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say."
Jeremiah 5:20: "this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,"
Jeremiah 5:21: " Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes,"
Jeremiah 5:21: "and see not; which have ears, and hear not:"
Jeremiah 6:7: "out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief"
Jeremiah 6:10: "whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot"
Jeremiah 6:18: "Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what"
Jeremiah 6:19: " Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this"
Jeremiah 6:24: " We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain,"
Jeremiah 7:2: "this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah,"
Jeremiah 7:13: "unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;"
Jeremiah 7:16: "make intercession to me: for I will not hear"
Jeremiah 7:23: "this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God,"
Jeremiah 7:24: " But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels"
Jeremiah 7:26: " Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened"
Jeremiah 7:27: "words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not"
Jeremiah 7:28: "them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God,"
Jeremiah 8:6: "I hearkened and heard, but they spoke not aright: no man repented"
Jeremiah 8:16: "The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled"
Jeremiah 9:10: "so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle;"
Jeremiah 9:13: "I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked"
Jeremiah 9:19: "For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled!"
Jeremiah 9:20: "Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word"
Jeremiah 10:1: " Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house"
Jeremiah 11:2: " Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men"
Jeremiah 11:3: "Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this"
Jeremiah 11:4: "out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice,"
Jeremiah 11:6: "and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant,"
Jeremiah 11:7: "even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice."
Jeremiah 11:8: " Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one"
Jeremiah 11:10: "of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they"
Jeremiah 11:11: "to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto"
Jeremiah 11:14: "them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for"









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