Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H8085: שָׁמַע (shâmaʻ) Definition

Strong's number
H8085
Lemma
שָׁמַע
Transliteration
shâmaʻ
Pronunciation
shaw-mah'
Strong's definition
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. a primitive root;

1071 instances of the word שָׁמַע shâmaʻ (H8085)


  • 2 Kings 13:4 - besought And Jehoahaz unto and the LORD hearkened and the LORD him for he saw the oppression of Israel oppressed because the king of Syria

  • 2 Kings 14:11 - would not hear But Amaziah went up Therefore Jehoash king of Israel looked one another in the face But Amaziah king of Judah at Bethshemesh of Judah

  • 2 Kings 16:9 - hearkened And the king of Assyria went up And the king of Assyria against Damascus and took it and carried the people of it captive to Kir Rezin and slew

  • 2 Kings 17:14 - Notwithstanding they would not hear but hardened like to the neck like to the neck of their fathers that did not believe in the LORD their God

  • 2 Kings 17:40 - Howbeit they did not hearken manner after their former but they did

  • 2 Kings 18:12 - Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God but transgressed his covenant commanded and all that Moses the servant of the LORD Because they obeyed them nor do

  • 2 Kings 18:26 - Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh Speak I pray thee to thy servants in the Syrian language for we understand Speak not with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the wall

  • 2 Kings 18:28 - stood Then Rabshakeh and cried voice of the great in the Jews' language and spake saying Hear the word king of the great king of Assyria

  • 2 Kings 18:31 - Hearken not to Hezekiah for thus saith the king of Assyria Make an agreement with me by a present and come out to me and then eat and every one of his own vine and every one of his fig tree and drink and every one the waters of his cistern

  • 2 Kings 18:32 - Until I come and take you away a land a land a land of corn and wine a land of bread and vineyards a land olive of oil and of honey that ye may live and not die and hearken not unto Hezekiah when he persuadeth you saying The LORD will deliver

  • 2 Kings 19:1 - heard And it came to pass when king Hezekiah it that he rent his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the LORD

  • 2 Kings 19:4 - It may be hath heard the LORD God all the words of Rabshakeh hath sent whom the king of Assyria his master to reproach God the living and will reprove all the words hath heard the LORD God wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left

  • 2 Kings 19:6 - Thus saith And Isaiah Thus saith to your master Thus saith the LORD Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard have blasphemed with which the servants of the king of Assyria

  • 2 Kings 19:7 - Behold I will send a blast upon him and he shall hear a rumour and shall return in his own land and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land

  • 2 Kings 19:8 - returned So Rabshakeh and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish

  • 2 Kings 19:9 - And when he heard of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia say Behold he is come out to fight again against thee he sent messengers unto Hezekiah say

  • 2 Kings 19:11 - Behold thou hast heard have done what the kings of Assyria to all lands by destroying them utterly and shalt thou be delivered

  • 2 Kings 19:16 - bow down LORD thine ear and hear open LORD thine eyes and see and hear the words of Sennacherib which hath sent him to reproach God the living

  • 2 Kings 19:20 - sent Then Isaiah the son of Amoz to Hezekiah Thus saith Thus saith the LORD God of Israel That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard

  • 2 Kings 19:25 - Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done times it and of ancient that I have formed it now have I brought it to pass that thou shouldest be to lay waste heaps into ruinous cities fenced