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)


  • Jeremiah 5:20 - Declare this in the house of Jacob and publish it in Judah saying

  • Jeremiah 5:21 - Hear people now this O foolish and without understanding which have eyes and see not which have ears Hear

  • Jeremiah 6:7 - casteth out As a fountain her waters casteth out her wickedness violence and spoil is heard in her before me continually is grief and wounds

  • Jeremiah 6:10 - To whom shall I speak and give warning that they may hear is uncircumcised behold their ear and they cannot hearken behold the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach they have no delight

  • Jeremiah 6:18 - Therefore hear ye nations and know O congregation

  • Jeremiah 6:19 - Hear O earth behold I will bring evil upon this people even the fruit of their thoughts unto my words because they have not hearkened nor to my law but rejected

  • Jeremiah 6:24 - We have heard the fame wax feeble thereof our hands anguish hath taken hold of us and pain as of a woman in travail

  • Jeremiah 7:2 - Stand at these gates house of the LORD and proclaim the word and say Hear the word of the LORD all ye of Judah that enter in at these gates to worship of the LORD

  • Jeremiah 7:13 - And now because ye have done all these works saith the LORD and I spake unto you rising up early and I spake but ye heard not and I called you but ye answered

  • Jeremiah 7:16 - Therefore pray for them not thou for this people neither lift up for them cry nor prayer neither make intercession to me for I will not hear

  • Jeremiah 7:23 - But this thing commanded I them saying Obey my voice and I will be your God and ye shall be my people and walk ye in all the ways commanded you that it may be well

  • Jeremiah 7:24 - But they hearkened not nor inclined their ear in the counsels and in the imagination heart of their evil and went backward and not forward

  • Jeremiah 7:26 - Yet they hearkened not unto me nor inclined their ear but hardened their neck they did worse than their fathers

  • Jeremiah 7:27 - Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them but they will not hearken to thee thou shalt also call unto them but they will not answer

  • Jeremiah 7:28 - But thou shalt say unto them This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God nor receiveth correction is perished truth and is cut off from their mouth

  • Jeremiah 8:6 - I hearkened and heard but they spake not aright no man repented him of his wickedness saying What have I done every one turned to his course as the horse rusheth into the battle

  • Jeremiah 8:16 - from Dan was heard The snorting of his horses at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones trembled the land for they are come and have devoured the land and all that is in it the city and those that dwell

  • Jeremiah 9:10 - For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation because they are burned up so that none can pass through them neither can men hear the voice of the cattle both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled they are gone

  • Jeremiah 9:13 - saith And the LORD Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them and have not obeyed my voice neither walked

  • Jeremiah 9:19 - For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion How are we spoiled confounded we are greatly because we have forsaken the land have cast us out because our dwellings