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 26:19: "therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If"
1 Samuel 28:18: "Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, nor executedst his fierce"
1 Samuel 28:21: "unto him, Behold, thine handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand,"
1 Samuel 28:21: "and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened unto thy words which thou spokest"
1 Samuel 28:22: "Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of thine handmaid, and let me set"
1 Samuel 28:23: "together with the woman, compelled him; and he hearkened unto their voice. So he arose from the earth,"
1 Samuel 30:24: "For who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as his part is that goeth down to the battle,"
1 Samuel 31:11: "And when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard of that which the Philistines"
2 Samuel 3:28: "And afterward when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom"
2 Samuel 4:1: "And when Saul's son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands"
2 Samuel 5:17: "But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over"
2 Samuel 5:17: "David; and David heard of it, and went down to the hold."
2 Samuel 5:24: "And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then"
2 Samuel 7:22: "is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears."
2 Samuel 8:9: "When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten"
2 Samuel 10:7: "And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men."
2 Samuel 11:26: "And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned"
2 Samuel 12:18: "we spoke unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex"
2 Samuel 13:14: "Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with"
2 Samuel 13:16: "thou didst unto me. But he would not hearken"
2 Samuel 13:21: "But when king David heard of all these things, he was very"
2 Samuel 14:16: "For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand"
2 Samuel 14:17: "so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD thy God"
2 Samuel 15:3: "and right; but there is no man deputed of the king to hear"
2 Samuel 15:10: "the tribes of Israel, saying, As soon as ye hear the sound of the trumpet, then ye shall say,"
2 Samuel 15:35: "that what thing soever thou shalt hear out of the king's house, thou shalt tell"
2 Samuel 15:36: "me every thing that ye can hear."
2 Samuel 16:21: "the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father:"
2 Samuel 17:5: "Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he saith."
2 Samuel 17:9: "and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter"
2 Samuel 17:9: "and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter"
2 Samuel 18:5: "even with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains"
2 Samuel 19:2: "the people: for the people heard say that day how the king"
2 Samuel 19:35: "or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women?"
2 Samuel 20:16: "woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto"
2 Samuel 20:16: "out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab,"
2 Samuel 20:17: "And he answered, I am he. Then she said unto him Hear the words of thine handmaid. And he answered, I"
2 Samuel 20:17: "of thine handmaid. And he answered, I do hear."
2 Samuel 22:7: "and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry"
2 Samuel 22:45: "Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient"
2 Samuel 22:45: "Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient"
1 Kings 1:11: "of Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith"
1 Kings 1:41: "the guests that were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab"
1 Kings 1:41: "had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said,"
1 Kings 1:45: "rang again. This is the noise that ye have heard."
1 Kings 2:42: "thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The word that I have heard is good."
1 Kings 3:9: "Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern"
1 Kings 3:11: "the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment;"
1 Kings 3:28: "And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged;"
1 Kings 4:34: "And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon,"
