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)


  • Genesis 29:13 - heard And it came to pass when Laban the tidings of Jacob son his sister's that he ran to meet him and embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house And he told And it came to pass when Laban all these things

  • Genesis 29:33 - And she conceived again and bare a son and said hath heard Because the LORD that I was hated he hath therefore given me this son also and she called his name Simeon

  • Genesis 30:6 - said And Rachel hath judged God me and hath also heard my voice and hath given me a son therefore called she his name Dan

  • Genesis 30:17 - hearkened And God unto Leah and she conceived and bare Jacob son the fifth

  • Genesis 30:22 - remembered And God Rachel hearkened And God to her and opened her womb

  • Genesis 31:1 - And he heard the words sons of Laban's saying hath taken away Jacob all that was our father's all that was our father's hath he gotten all this glory

  • Genesis 34:5 - And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter now his sons were with his cattle in the field held his peace And Jacob until they were come

  • Genesis 34:7 - And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard were grieved wroth and they were very folly because he had wrought in Israel in lying daughter of Jacob because he had wrought

  • Genesis 34:17 - But if ye will not hearken unto us to be circumcised then will we take our daughter and we will be gone

  • Genesis 34:24 - hearkened And unto Hamor his son all that went out of the gate of his city was circumcised and every male all that went out of the gate of his city

  • Genesis 35:22 - dwelt And it came to pass when Israel in that land that Reuben and lay with Bilhah concubine his father's heard And it came to pass when Israel it Now the sons of Jacob were twelve

  • Genesis 37:6 - And he said unto them Hear which I have dreamed I pray you this dream

  • Genesis 37:17 - said And the man They are departed hence for I heard said them in Dothan And Joseph after his brethren and found them in Dothan

  • Genesis 37:21 - heard And Reuben it and he delivered him out of their hands and said Let us not kill

  • Genesis 37:27 - and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites and let not our hand And his brethren and our flesh were content And his brethren

  • Genesis 39:10 - And it came to pass as she spake to Joseph by day by day that he hearkened not unto her to lie by her

  • Genesis 39:15 - And it came to pass when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried that he left his garment with me and fled and got him out

  • Genesis 39:19 - heard And it came to pass when his master After this manner of his wife which she spake unto him saying After this manner did thy servant was kindled to me that his wrath

  • Genesis 41:15 - said And Pharaoh unto Joseph a dream I have dreamed and there is none that can interpret it and I have heard said it and I have heard a dream and there is none that can interpret

  • Genesis 42:2 - And he said Behold I have heard that there is corn in Egypt get you down thither and buy for us from thence that we may live and not die