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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:

Jeremiah 12:17: "But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that"
Jeremiah 13:10: "evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination"
Jeremiah 13:11: "and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear."
Jeremiah 13:15: " Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken."
Jeremiah 13:17: "But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for"
Jeremiah 14:12: "When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer"
Jeremiah 16:12: "the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto"
Jeremiah 17:20: "And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings of Judah, and all"
Jeremiah 17:23: " But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck"
Jeremiah 17:23: "their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction."
Jeremiah 17:24: "And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the LORD, to bring in"
Jeremiah 17:24: "And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the LORD, to bring in"
Jeremiah 17:27: "But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day,"
Jeremiah 18:2: "to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words."
Jeremiah 18:10: "If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of"
Jeremiah 18:13: "ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done"
Jeremiah 18:19: "Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend"
Jeremiah 18:22: "Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly"
Jeremiah 19:3: "And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem;"
Jeremiah 19:3: "place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle."
Jeremiah 19:15: "their necks, that they might not hear my words."
Jeremiah 20:1: "governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied"
Jeremiah 20:10: "For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report,"
Jeremiah 20:16: "overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;"
Jeremiah 21:11: "And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye the word of the LORD;"
Jeremiah 22:2: "And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, that sittest upon"
Jeremiah 22:5: "But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith"
Jeremiah 22:21: "thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth,"
Jeremiah 22:21: "hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice."
Jeremiah 22:29: "O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD."
Jeremiah 23:16: "saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets"
Jeremiah 23:18: "in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked"
Jeremiah 23:18: "who hath marked his word, and heard"
Jeremiah 23:22: "in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way,"
Jeremiah 23:25: " I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name,"
Jeremiah 25:3: "unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened."
Jeremiah 25:4: "rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear"
Jeremiah 25:4: "inclined your ear to hear."
Jeremiah 25:7: "Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works"
Jeremiah 25:8: "of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words,"
Jeremiah 26:3: "If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent"
Jeremiah 26:4: "the LORD; If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which"
Jeremiah 26:5: " To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent"
Jeremiah 26:5: "you, both rising up early, and sending them, but ye have not hearkened;"
Jeremiah 26:7: "and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking"
Jeremiah 26:10: "When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came up from the king's"
Jeremiah 26:11: "this city, as ye have heard with your ears."
Jeremiah 26:12: "all the words that ye have heard."
Jeremiah 26:13: "amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD"
Jeremiah 26:21: "his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought"









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