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:
Zechariah 7:11: "the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear."
Zechariah 7:12: "Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words"
Zechariah 7:13: "that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear,"
Zechariah 7:13: "so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts:"
Zechariah 8:9: "of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these"
Zechariah 8:23: "saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with"
Malachi 2:2: "If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart,"
Malachi 3:16: "another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before"
