שָׁמַע

sha.ma · to hear: hear

Hebrew · Strong's H8085 · Verb · Sounds like: shaw-mah' · 1,160 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • to hear: hear H8085G 965
  • to hear: obey H8085H · a Meaning of 134
  • to hear: proclaim H8085I · a Meaning of 49
  • to hear: understand H8085J · a Meaning of 9
  • to hear: judge H8085K · a Meaning of 2
  • to hear: welcome H8085L · a Meaning of 1

Strong's dictionary

a primitive root; to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.); [idiom] attentively, call (gather) together, [idiom] carefully, [idiom] certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, [idiom] diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear(-ken, tell), [idiom] indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim(-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, [idiom] surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth), witness.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
שָׁמַע 1152 vb. hear
Qal 1052
1. subj. pers. hum.
2. י׳ (God) subj.
Niph. 42
1. be heard, of voice, sound
2. be heard of
3. be regarded, obeyed
4. = (favourable) hearing was granted to their voice.
Pi. he caused the people to hear
Hiph. 63
1. of man
2. י׳ subj.

Every occurrence

  1. Jeremiah 29:8 תִּשְׁמְעוּ֙ tish.me.'U · A mild command: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by all of you

    For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Let not your prophets that are in the midst of you, and your diviners, deceive you; neither hearken ye to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.

  2. Jeremiah 29:12 וְשָׁמַעְתִּ֖י ve.sha.ma'.Ti · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by me

    And ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

  3. Jeremiah 29:19 שָׁמְע֥וּ sha.me.'U · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    because they have not hearkened to my words, saith Jehovah, wherewith I sent unto them my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith Jehovah.

  4. Jeremiah 29:19 שְׁמַעְתֶּ֖ם she.ma'.Tem · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by all of you

    because they have not hearkened to my words, saith Jehovah, wherewith I sent unto them my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith Jehovah.

  5. Jeremiah 29:20 שִׁמְע֣וּ shim.'U · A command to all of you: simple action

    Hear ye therefore the word of Jehovah, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.

  6. Jeremiah 30:5 שָׁמָ֑עְנוּ sha.Ma.'e.nu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by us

    For thus saith Jehovah: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

  7. Jeremiah 31:7 הַשְׁמִ֤יעוּ hash.Mi.'u · A command to all of you: causing it

    For thus saith Jehovah, Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O Jehovah, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.

  8. Jeremiah 31:10 שִׁמְע֤וּ shim.'U · A command to all of you: simple action

    Hear the word of Jehovah, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off; and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.

  9. Jeremiah 31:15 נִשְׁמָע֙ nish.Ma' · An action: receiving the action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Thus saith Jehovah: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuseth to be comforted for her children, because they are not.

  10. Jeremiah 31:18 שָׁמ֣וֹעַ sha.Mo.a' · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art Jehovah my God.

  11. Jeremiah 31:18 שָׁמַ֗עְתִּי sha.Ma'.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art Jehovah my God.

  12. Jeremiah 32:23 שָׁמְע֤וּ sha.me.'U · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    and they came in, and possessed it, but they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them.

  13. Jeremiah 32:33 שֹׁמְעִ֖ים sho.me.'Im · An -ing word: simple action

    And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: and though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.

  14. Jeremiah 33:9 יִשְׁמְע֜וּ yish.me.'U · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    And this city shall be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and for a glory, before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them, and shall fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I procure unto it.

  15. Jeremiah 33:10 יִשָּׁמַ֣ע yi.sha.Ma' · An action: receiving the action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    Thus saith Jehovah: Yet again there shall be heard in this place, whereof ye say, It is waste, without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast,

  16. Jeremiah 34:4 שְׁמַ֣ע she.Ma' · A command to you: simple action

    Yet hear the word of Jehovah, O Zedekiah king of Judah: thus saith Jehovah concerning thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword;

  17. Jeremiah 34:10 וַיִּשְׁמְעוּ֩ vai.yish.me.'U · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    And all the princes and all the people obeyed, that had entered into the covenant, that every one should let his man-servant, and every one his maid-servant, go free, that none should make bondmen of them any more; they obeyed, and let them go:

  18. Jeremiah 34:10 וַֽיִּשְׁמְע֖וּ vai.yish.me.'U · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    And all the princes and all the people obeyed, that had entered into the covenant, that every one should let his man-servant, and every one his maid-servant, go free, that none should make bondmen of them any more; they obeyed, and let them go:

  19. Jeremiah 34:14 שָׁמְע֤וּ sha.me.'U · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    At the end of seven years ye shall let go every man his brother that is a Hebrew, that hath been sold unto thee, and hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.

  20. Jeremiah 34:17 שְׁמַעְתֶּ֣ם she.ma'.Tem · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by all of you

    Therefore thus saith Jehovah: ye have not hearkened unto me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim unto you a liberty, saith Jehovah, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth.

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