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)


  • 1 Samuel 16:2 - and say And Samuel hear if Saul it he will kill and say me And the LORD an heifer Take with thee and say to sacrifice me And the LORD I am come

  • 1 Samuel 17:11 - heard When Saul and all Israel those words of the Philistine they were dismayed afraid and greatly

  • 1 Samuel 17:23 - And as he talked the champion with them behold there came up Goliath of the Philistines by name of Gath of the Philistines And as he talked words according to the same heard and David

  • 1 Samuel 17:28 - heard And Eliab brother his eldest when he spake was kindled anger And Eliab against David and he said Why camest thou down hither and with whom hast thou left few sheep those in the wilderness I know thy pride and the naughtiness of thine heart that thou mightest see the battle Why camest thou down

  • 1 Samuel 17:31 - were heard And when the words spake which David they rehearsed them before Saul and he sent

  • 1 Samuel 19:6 - hearkened And Saul unto the voice of Jonathan sware And Saul liveth As the LORD he shall not be slain

  • 1 Samuel 22:1 - David thence and escaped to the cave Adullam heard and when his brethren house and all his father's it they went down

  • 1 Samuel 22:6 - heard When Saul was discovered that David and the men When Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah having his spear in his hand and all his servants were standing

  • 1 Samuel 22:7 - said Then Saul unto his servants that stood about him Hear now will the son ye Benjamites give will the son of Jesse every one of you fields and vineyards and make and captains of thousands and captains of hundreds

  • 1 Samuel 22:12 - And he answered And Saul Hear now thou son of Ahitub And he answered Here I am my lord

  • 1 Samuel 23:8 - called And Saul all the people to war to go down to Keilah to besiege David

  • 1 Samuel 23:10 - Then said David O LORD God of Israel hath certainly hath certainly thy servant seeketh that Saul to come to Keilah to destroy the city

  • 1 Samuel 23:11 - deliver me up Will the men of Keilah into his hand He will come down will Saul hath heard as thy servant And the LORD God of Israel I beseech thee tell as thy servant said And the LORD He will come down

  • 1 Samuel 23:25 - And when Saul to seek him And they told David wherefore he came down into a rock and abode in the wilderness of Maon heard And when Saul that he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon

  • 1 Samuel 24:9 - said And David to Saul Wherefore hearest words thou men's said And David seeketh thy hurt

  • 1 Samuel 25:4 - heard And David in the wilderness did shear that Nabal his sheep

  • 1 Samuel 25:7 - And now I have heard that thou hast shearers now thy shepherds which were with us we hurt missing them not neither was there ought unto them all the while they were in Carmel

  • 1 Samuel 25:24 - And fell at his feet and said of thine handmaid Upon me my lord upon me let this iniquity I pray thee speak be and let thine handmaid in thine audience and hear the words be and let thine handmaid

  • 1 Samuel 25:35 - received So David of her hand that which she had brought him and said unto her Go up in peace to thine house see I have hearkened to thy voice and have accepted thy person

  • 1 Samuel 25:39 - heard And David was dead of Nabal he said Blessed be the LORD that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal his servant and hath kept from evil from evil of Nabal hath returned be the LORD upon his own head sent And David and communed with Abigail to take her to him to wife