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)


  • Nehemiah 6:6 - Wherein was written among the heathen It is reported and Gashmu saith it that thou and the Jews think to rebel for which cause thou buildest the wall that thou mayest be their king according to these words

  • Nehemiah 6:7 - prophets And thou hast also appointed to preach of thee at Jerusalem saying There is a king in Judah and now shall it be reported There is a king according to these words now therefore and let us take counsel together

  • Nehemiah 6:16 - heard And it came to pass that when all our enemies saw thereof and all the heathen that were about us cast down these things they were much in their own eyes for they perceived of our God was wrought that this work

  • Nehemiah 8:2 - brought And Ezra the priest the law before the congregation both of men and women with understanding and all that could hear day upon the first month of the seventh

  • Nehemiah 8:9 - said And Nehemiah which is the Tirshatha and Ezra the priest the scribe and the Levites that taught For all the people For all the people This day is holy unto the LORD your God mourn not nor weep not nor weep For all the people when they heard the words of the law

  • Nehemiah 8:15 - And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities and in Jerusalem saying Go forth unto the mount and fetch and branches olive and branches branches and pine and branches and myrtle and branches and palm and branches branches of thick to make booths as it is written

  • Nehemiah 9:9 - And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt their cry and heardest sea by the Red

  • Nehemiah 9:16 - But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their necks and hearkened not to thy commandments

  • Nehemiah 9:17 - And refused to obey neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them but hardened their necks appointed a captain to return to their bondage and in their rebellion but thou art a God ready to pardon gracious and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and forsookest

  • Nehemiah 9:27 - Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies who vexed them and in the time of their trouble when they cried them from heaven unto thee thou heardest mercies and according to thy manifold Therefore thou deliveredst them saviours them saviours them into the hand of their enemies

  • Nehemiah 9:28 - But after they had rest again they did evil before thee therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies so that they had the dominion again and cried them from heaven unto thee thou heardest didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies and many times

  • Nehemiah 9:29 - And testifiedst against them that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law yet they dealt proudly and hearkened not unto thy commandments against thy judgments but sinned do which if a man he shall live in them and withdrew the shoulder their neck and hardened and hearkened

  • Nehemiah 12:42 - And Maaseiah and Shemaiah and Eleazar and Uzzi and Jehohanan and Malchijah and Elam and Ezer sang loud And the singers with Jezrahiah their overseer

  • Nehemiah 12:43 - they offered Also that day sacrifices great and rejoiced for God and rejoiced joy great the wives also and the children and rejoiced was heard joy of Jerusalem even afar off

  • Nehemiah 13:3 - Now it came to pass when they had heard the law that they separated all the mixed multitude from Israel

  • Nehemiah 13:27 - Shall we then hearken unto you to do evil all this great to transgress against our God in marrying wives strange

  • Numbers 7:89 - was gone And when Moses into the tabernacle of the congregation and he spake with him then he heard the voice and he spake unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony from between the two cherubims and he spake

  • Numbers 9:8 - said And Moses unto them Stand still and I will hear will command what the LORD

  • Numbers 11:1 - And when the people complained it displeased and the LORD heard and the LORD was kindled it and his anger burnt and the fire and the LORD among them and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp

  • Numbers 11:10 - heard Moses the people weep throughout their families every man in the door of his tent was kindled and the anger of the LORD greatly Moses