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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:

Deuteronomy 1:17: "respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid"
Deuteronomy 1:17: "is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear"
Deuteronomy 1:34: "And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and swore, saying,"
Deuteronomy 1:43: "So I spoke unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD,"
Deuteronomy 1:45: "the LORD; but the LORD would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto"
Deuteronomy 2:25: "the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because"
Deuteronomy 3:26: "was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the LORD said unto"
Deuteronomy 4:1: "Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which"
Deuteronomy 4:6: "in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes,"
Deuteronomy 4:10: "said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words,"
Deuteronomy 4:12: "you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw"
Deuteronomy 4:28: "neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell."
Deuteronomy 4:30: "to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;"
Deuteronomy 4:32: "whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?"
Deuteronomy 4:33: "Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire,"
Deuteronomy 4:33: "out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?"
Deuteronomy 4:36: "Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth"
Deuteronomy 4:36: "thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire."
Deuteronomy 5:1: "all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes"
Deuteronomy 5:23: "And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain"
Deuteronomy 5:24: "us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire:"
Deuteronomy 5:25: "will consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God"
Deuteronomy 5:26: "is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking"
Deuteronomy 5:27: "Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God"
Deuteronomy 5:27: "the LORD our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do"
Deuteronomy 5:28: "And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye spoke unto me; and the LORD"
Deuteronomy 5:28: "me; and the LORD said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this"
Deuteronomy 6:3: " Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase"
Deuteronomy 6:4: " Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:"
Deuteronomy 7:12: "Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do"
Deuteronomy 8:20: "so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God."
Deuteronomy 9:1: " Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in"
Deuteronomy 9:2: "thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children"
Deuteronomy 9:19: "was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time"
Deuteronomy 9:23: "your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice."
Deuteronomy 10:10: "and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also,"
Deuteronomy 11:13: "And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I"
Deuteronomy 11:13: "And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I"
Deuteronomy 11:27: "A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God,"
Deuteronomy 11:28: "And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God,"
Deuteronomy 12:28: "Observe and hear all these words which I"
Deuteronomy 13:3: "Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that"
Deuteronomy 13:4: "and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave"
Deuteronomy 13:8: "Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity"
Deuteronomy 13:11: "And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any"
Deuteronomy 13:12: "If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given"
Deuteronomy 13:18: "When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all"
Deuteronomy 15:5: "Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe"
Deuteronomy 15:5: "Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe"
Deuteronomy 17:4: "And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and inquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain,"









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