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 29:8 - For thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel of you deceive Let not your prophets that be in the midst and your diviners you neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed

  • Jeremiah 29:12 - Then shall ye call upon me and ye shall go and pray unto me and I will hearken

  • Jeremiah 29:19 - Because they have not hearkened to my words saith the LORD and sending unto them by my servants the prophets rising up early and sending Because they have not hearkened saith the LORD

  • Jeremiah 29:20 - Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD all ye of the captivity whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon

  • Jeremiah 30:5 - For thus saith the LORD a voice of trembling We have heard of fear and not of peace

  • Jeremiah 31:7 - For thus saith O LORD Sing for Jacob with gladness and shout among the chief of the nations publish ye praise For thus saith save O LORD thy people the remnant of Israel

  • Jeremiah 31:10 - Hear the word of the LORD 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

  • Jeremiah 31:15 - Thus saith the LORD A voice in Ramah was heard lamentation weeping and bitter Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children

  • Jeremiah 31:18 - I have surely I have surely Ephraim bemoaning himself thus Thou hast chastised himself thus Thou hast chastised as a bullock unaccustomed thou me and I shall be turned thou me and I shall be turned for thou art the LORD my God

  • Jeremiah 32:23 - And they came in and possessed it but they obeyed not thy voice in thy law neither walked nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do them to do to come therefore thou hast caused all this evil

  • Jeremiah 32:33 - And they have turned unto me the back and not the face and teaching them rising up early and teaching them yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction

  • Jeremiah 33:9 - And it shall be to me a name of joy a praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth which shall hear all the good that I do unto them and they shall fear and tremble all the good and for all the prosperity that I do

  • Jeremiah 33:10 - Thus saith the LORD Again there shall be heard in this place Thus saith shall be desolate 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

  • Jeremiah 34:4 - Yet hear the word of the LORD O Zedekiah king of Judah Thus saith of the LORD of thee Thou shalt not die by the sword

  • Jeremiah 34:10 - heard Now when all the princes and all the people which had entered into the covenant and let them go and every one should let his manservant and every one his maidservant free that none should serve heard and let them go

  • Jeremiah 34:14 - At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew which hath been sold unto thee and when he hath served thee six years let ye go free hearkened from thee but your fathers not unto me neither inclined their ear

  • Jeremiah 34:17 - Therefore thus saith the LORD Ye have not hearkened behold I proclaim a liberty and every man to his brother and every man to his neighbour behold I proclaim a liberty for you saith the LORD to the sword to the pestilence and to the famine and I will make into all the kingdoms of the earth

  • Jeremiah 35:8 - Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab our sons of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us to drink no wine all our days we our wives our sons nor our daughters

  • Jeremiah 35:10 - But we have dwelt in tents and have obeyed and done commanded according to all that Jonadab our father

  • Jeremiah 35:13 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Go Thus saith the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words saith the LORD