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:
1 Samuel 3:11: "both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle."
1 Samuel 4:6: "And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What meaneth the noise"
1 Samuel 4:14: "And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What meaneth the noise"
1 Samuel 4:19: "wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God"
1 Samuel 7:7: "And when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together to Mizpeh, the lords"
1 Samuel 7:7: "Israel. And when the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines."
1 Samuel 8:7: "said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that"
1 Samuel 8:9: "Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and show"
1 Samuel 8:19: "Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but"
1 Samuel 8:21: "And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears"
1 Samuel 8:22: "said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel"
1 Samuel 9:27: "us, (and he passed on,) but stand thou still a while, that I may show thee the word of God."
1 Samuel 11:6: "came upon Saul when he heard those tidings, and his anger"
1 Samuel 12:1: "all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened unto your voice in all that ye said"
1 Samuel 12:14: "the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against"
1 Samuel 12:15: "But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment"
1 Samuel 13:3: "that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all"
1 Samuel 13:3: "the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear."
1 Samuel 13:4: "And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten a garrison"
1 Samuel 14:22: "which had hid themselves in mount Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they"
1 Samuel 14:27: "But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth"
1 Samuel 15:1: "over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the LORD."
1 Samuel 15:4: "And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand"
1 Samuel 15:14: "of the oxen which I hear?"
1 Samuel 15:19: "Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil,"
1 Samuel 15:20: "unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way"
1 Samuel 15:22: "as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey"
1 Samuel 15:22: "the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken"
1 Samuel 15:24: "I feared the people, and obeyed their voice."
1 Samuel 16:2: "How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And the LORD said, Take"
1 Samuel 17:11: "When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine,"
1 Samuel 17:23: "out of the armies of the Philistines, and spoke according to the same words: and David heard"
1 Samuel 17:28: "And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke unto the men; and Eliab's"
1 Samuel 17:31: "And when the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul:"
1 Samuel 19:6: "And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul swore, As the LORD liveth,"
1 Samuel 22:1: "and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to"
1 Samuel 22:6: "When Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that were with"
1 Samuel 22:7: "unto his servants that stood about him, Hear now, ye Benjamites; will the son of Jesse"
1 Samuel 22:12: "And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here"
1 Samuel 23:8: "And Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to Keilah,"
1 Samuel 23:10: "God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly heard that Saul seeketh"
1 Samuel 23:10: "God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly heard that Saul seeketh"
1 Samuel 23:11: "come down, as thy servant hath heard? O LORD God of Israel, I beseech thee,"
1 Samuel 23:25: "in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness"
1 Samuel 24:9: "said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words, saying,"
1 Samuel 25:4: "And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep."
1 Samuel 25:7: "And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were"
1 Samuel 25:24: "I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid."
1 Samuel 25:35: "unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person."
1 Samuel 25:39: "And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD,"
