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שָׁמַע

sha.mato hear: hearHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb1,159 occurrences39 books1,072 verses

Definition

a primitive root; to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
Traditional renderings: × attentively, call (gather) together, × carefully, × certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, × diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear(-ken, tell), × indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim(-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, × surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth), witness.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders שָׁמַע:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

1,159 total
  1. 1 Kings 22:19שְׁמַ֣ע · hear
    Micaiah continued, “Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by Him on His right and on His left.
  2. 1 Kings 22:28שִׁמְע֖וּ · Take heed
    But Micaiah replied, “If you ever return safely, the LORD has not spoken through me.” Then he added, “Take heed, all you people!”
  3. 2 Kings 3:21שָֽׁמְע֔וּ · had heard
    Now all the Moabites had heard that the kings had come up to fight against them. So all who could bear arms, young and old, were summoned and stationed at the border.
  4. 2 Kings 5:8כִּשְׁמֹ֣עַ׀ · heard
    Now when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent a message to the king: “Why have you torn your clothes? Please let the man come to me, and he will know that there is a prophet in Israel.”
  5. 2 Kings 6:30כִשְׁמֹ֨עַ · heard
    When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. And as he passed by on the wall, the people saw the sackcloth under his clothes next to his skin.
  6. 2 Kings 7:1שִׁמְע֖וּ · Hear
    Then Elisha said, “Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the LORD says: ‘About this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria, a seah of fine flour will sell for a shekel, and two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel.’”
  7. 2 Kings 7:6הִשְׁמִ֣יעַ׀ · to hear
    For the Lord had caused the Arameans to hear the sound of chariots, horses, and a great army, so that they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel must have hired the kings of the Hittites and Egyptians to attack us.”
  8. 2 Kings 9:30שָׁמְעָ֗ה · heard [of it]
    Now when Jehu arrived in Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. So she painted her eyes, adorned her head, and looked down from a window.
  9. 2 Kings 10:6שֹׁמְעִ֗ים · will obey me
    Then Jehu wrote them a second letter and said: “If you are on my side, and if you will obey me, then bring the heads of your master’s sons to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow.” Now the sons of the king, seventy in all, were being brought up by the leading men of the city.
  10. 2 Kings 11:13וַתִּשְׁמַ֣ע · heard
    When Athaliah heard the noise from the guards and the people, she went out to the people in the house of the LORD.
  11. 2 Kings 13:4וַיִּשְׁמַ֤ע · listened
    Then Jehoahaz sought the favor of the LORD, and the LORD listened to him because He saw the oppression that the king of Aram had inflicted on Israel.
  12. 2 Kings 14:11שָׁמַ֣ע · listen
    But Amaziah would not listen, so Jehoash king of Israel advanced. He and King Amaziah of Judah faced each other at Beth-shemesh in Judah.
  13. 2 Kings 16:9וַיִּשְׁמַ֤ע · responded
    So the king of Assyria responded to him, marched up to Damascus, and captured it. He took its people to Kir as captives and put Rezin to death.
  14. 2 Kings 17:14שָׁמֵ֑עוּ · listen
    But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.
  15. 2 Kings 17:40שָׁמֵ֑עוּ · listen
    But they would not listen, and they persisted in their former customs.
  16. 2 Kings 18:12שָׁמְע֗וּ · listen; שָׁמְע֖וּ · listen
    This happened because they did not listen to the voice of the LORD their God, but violated His covenant—all that Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded—and would neither listen nor obey.
  17. 2 Kings 18:26שֹׁמְעִ֖ים · understand it
    Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, along with Shebnah and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak with us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
  18. 2 Kings 18:28שִׁמְע֛וּ · Hear
    Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew: “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!
  19. 2 Kings 18:31תִּשְׁמְע֖וּ · listen
    Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,
  20. 2 Kings 18:32תִּשְׁמְעוּ֙ · listen
    …until I come and take you away to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey—so that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, for he misleads you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’
  21. 2 Kings 19:1כִּשְׁמֹ֙עַ֙ · hearing [this report]
    On hearing this report, King Hezekiah tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and entered the house of the LORD.
  22. 2 Kings 19:4יִשְׁמַע֩ · will hear; שָׁמַ֖ע · has heard
    Perhaps the LORD your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”
  23. 2 Kings 19:6שָׁמַ֗עְתָּ · you have heard
    …who replied, “Tell your master that this is what the LORD says: ‘Do not be afraid of the words you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.
  24. 2 Kings 19:7וְשָׁמַ֥ע · so that he will hear
    Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land, where I will cause him to fall by the sword.’”
  25. 2 Kings 19:8שָׁמַ֔ע · heard
    When the Rabshakeh heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.
  26. 2 Kings 19:9וַיִּשְׁמַ֗ע · Now Sennacherib had been warned
    Now Sennacherib had been warned about Tirhakah king of Cush: “Look, he has set out to fight against you.” So Sennacherib again sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
  27. 2 Kings 19:11שָׁמַ֗עְתָּ · have heard
    Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries, devoting them to destruction. Will you then be spared?
  28. 2 Kings 19:16וּֽשֲׁמָ֔ע · and hear; וּשְׁמַ֗ע · Listen to
    Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God.
  29. 2 Kings 19:20שָׁמָֽעְתִּי׃ · I have heard
    Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I have heard your prayer concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria.
  30. 2 Kings 19:25שָׁמַ֤עְתָּ · heard
    Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.
  31. 2 Kings 20:5שָׁמַ֙עְתִּי֙ · I have heard
    “Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will surely heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the house of the LORD.
  32. 2 Kings 20:12שָׁמַ֔ע · he had heard
    At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard about Hezekiah’s illness.
  33. 2 Kings 20:13וַיִּשְׁמַ֣ע · received
    And Hezekiah received the envoys and showed them all that was in his treasure house—the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, as well as his armory—all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his palace or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.
  34. 2 Kings 20:16שְׁמַ֖ע · Hear
    Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the LORD:
  35. 2 Kings 21:9שָׁמֵ֑עוּ · listen
    But the people did not listen and Manasseh led them astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
  36. 2 Kings 21:12שֹׁמְעָיו · who hear it
    …this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah that the news will reverberate in the ears of all who hear it.
  37. 2 Kings 22:11כִּשְׁמֹ֣עַ · heard
    When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, he tore his clothes
  38. 2 Kings 22:13שָׁמְע֜וּ · obeyed
    “Go and inquire of the LORD for me, for the people, and for all Judah concerning the words in this book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that burns against us because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book by doing all that is written about us.”
  39. 2 Kings 22:18שָׁמָֽעְתָּ׃ · you heard
    But as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, tell him that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘As for the words that you heard,
  40. 2 Kings 22:19בְּֽשָׁמְעֲךָ֡ · when you heard; שָׁמַ֖עְתִּי · have heard [you]
    …because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its people, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.
  41. 2 Kings 25:23וַיִּשְׁמְעוּ֩ · heard
    When all the commanders of the armies and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah as governor, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah—Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah son of the Maacathite, as well as their men.
  42. 1 Chronicles 10:11וַֽיִּשְׁמְע֔וּ · heard about
    When all the people of Jabesh-gilead heard about everything the Philistines had done to Saul,
  43. 1 Chronicles 14:8וַיִּשְׁמְע֣וּ · heard; וַיִּשְׁמַ֣ע · learned [of this]
    When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over all Israel, they all went in search of him; but David learned of this and went out to face them.
  44. 1 Chronicles 14:15כְּֽשָׁמְעֲךָ֞ · you hear
    As soon as you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, move out to battle, because this will mean that God has gone out before you to strike the camp of the Philistines.”
  45. 1 Chronicles 15:16מַשְׁמִיעִ֥ים
    David also told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their relatives as singers to lift up their voices with joy, accompanied by musical instruments—harps, lyres, and cymbals.