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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. Isaiah 64:4שָׁמְע֖וּ · one has heard
    From ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides You, who acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.
  2. Isaiah 65:12שְׁמַעְתֶּ֑ם · listen
    I will destine you for the sword, and you will all kneel down to be slaughtered, because I called and you did not answer, I spoke and you did not listen; you did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”
  3. Isaiah 65:19יִשָּׁמַ֥ע · be heard
    I will rejoice in Jerusalem and take delight in My people. The sounds of weeping and crying will no longer be heard in her.
  4. Isaiah 65:24אֶשְׁמָֽע׃ · will hear
    Even before they call, I will answer, and while they are still speaking, I will hear.
  5. Isaiah 66:4שָׁמֵ֑עוּ · listened
    So I will choose their punishment and I will bring terror upon them, because I called and no one answered, I spoke and no one listened. But they did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”
  6. Isaiah 66:5שִׁמְעוּ֙ · hear
    You who tremble at His word, hear the word of the LORD: “Your brothers who hate you and exclude you because of My name have said, ‘Let the LORD be glorified that we may see your joy!’ But they will be put to shame.”
  7. Isaiah 66:8שָׁמַ֣ע · has heard
    Who has heard of such as this? Who has seen such things? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be delivered in an instant? Yet as soon as Zion was in labor, she gave birth to her children.
  8. Isaiah 66:19שָׁמְע֤וּ · heard
    I will establish a sign among them, and I will send survivors from among them to the nations—to Tarshish, Put, and the archers of Lud; to Tubal, Javan, and the islands far away who have not heard of My fame or seen My glory. So they will proclaim My glory among the nations.
  9. Jeremiah 2:4שִׁמְע֥וּ · Hear
    Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all you families of the house of Israel.
  10. Jeremiah 3:13שְׁמַעְתֶּ֖ם · obeyed
    Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,’” declares the LORD.
  11. Jeremiah 3:21נִשְׁמָ֔ע · is heard
    A voice is heard on the barren heights, the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, because they have perverted their ways and forgotten the LORD their God.
  12. Jeremiah 3:25שָׁמַ֔עְנוּ · obeyed
    Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”
  13. Jeremiah 4:5הַשְׁמִ֔יעוּ · proclaim
    Announce in Judah, proclaim in Jerusalem, and say: “Blow the ram’s horn throughout the land. Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves and let us flee to the fortified cities.’
  14. Jeremiah 4:15וּמַשְׁמִ֥יעַ · proclaiming
    For a voice resounds from Dan, proclaiming disaster from the hills of Ephraim.
  15. Jeremiah 4:16הַשְׁמִ֣יעוּ · Proclaim
    Warn the nations now! Proclaim to Jerusalem: “A besieging army comes from a distant land; they raise their voices against the cities of Judah.
  16. Jeremiah 4:19שָׁמַעְתִּי · have heard
    My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the pain in my chest! My heart pounds within me; I cannot be silent. For I have heard the sound of the horn, the alarm of battle.
  17. Jeremiah 4:21אֶשְׁמְעָ֖ה · and hear
    How long must I see the signal flag and hear the sound of the horn?
  18. Jeremiah 4:31שָׁמַ֗עְתִּי · I hear
    For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child—the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands to say, “Woe is me, for my soul faints before the murderers!”
  19. Jeremiah 5:15תִשְׁמַ֖ע · understand
    Behold, I am bringing a distant nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD. “It is an established nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know and whose speech you do not understand.
  20. Jeremiah 5:20וְהַשְׁמִיע֥וּהָ · and proclaim
    Declare this in the house of Jacob and proclaim it in Judah:
  21. Jeremiah 5:21שִׁמְעוּ־ · Hear; יִשְׁמָֽעוּ׃ · hear
    “Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.
  22. Jeremiah 6:7יִשָּׁ֨מַע · resound
    As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me.
  23. Jeremiah 6:10וְיִשְׁמָ֔עוּ · Who will listen [to me]
    To whom can I give this warning? Who will listen to me? Look, their ears are closed, so they cannot hear. See, the word of the LORD has become offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.
  24. Jeremiah 6:18שִׁמְע֣וּ · hear
    Therefore hear, O nations, and learn, O congregations, what will happen to them.
  25. Jeremiah 6:19שִׁמְעִ֣י · Hear
    Hear, O earth! I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their own schemes, because they have paid no attention to My word and have rejected My instruction.
  26. Jeremiah 6:24שָׁמַ֥עְנוּ · We have heard
    We have heard the report; our hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped us, pain like that of a woman in labor.
  27. Jeremiah 7:2שִׁמְע֣וּ · Hear
    “Stand in the gate of the house of the LORD and proclaim this message: Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah who enter through these gates to worship the LORD.
  28. Jeremiah 7:13שְׁמַעְתֶּ֔ם · listen
    And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you would not listen, and I have called to you but you would not answer,
  29. Jeremiah 7:16שֹׁמֵ֖עַ · listen
    As for you, do not pray for these people, do not offer a plea or petition on their behalf, and do not beg Me, for I will not listen to you.
  30. Jeremiah 7:23שִׁמְע֣וּ · Obey Me
    …but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.
  31. Jeremiah 7:24שָֽׁמְעוּ֙ · listen
    Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.
  32. Jeremiah 7:26שָׁמְעוּ֙ · listen
    Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.
  33. Jeremiah 7:27יִשְׁמְע֖וּ · listen
    When you tell them all these things, they will not listen to you. When you call to them, they will not answer.
  34. Jeremiah 7:28שָׁמְע֗וּ · listen
    Therefore you must say to them, ‘This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would not receive correction. Truth has perished; it has disappeared from their lips.
  35. Jeremiah 8:6וָֽאֶשְׁמָע֙ · and heard
    I have listened and heard; they do not speak what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, asking, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone has pursued his own course like a horse charging into battle.
  36. Jeremiah 8:16נִשְׁמַע֙ · is heard
    The snorting of enemy horses is heard from Dan. At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds, the whole land quakes. They come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who dwell in it.
  37. Jeremiah 9:10שָׁמְע֖וּ · heard
    I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.
  38. Jeremiah 9:13שָׁמְע֥וּ · obeyed
    And the LORD answered, “It is because they have forsaken My law, which I set before them; they have not walked in it or obeyed My voice.
  39. Jeremiah 9:19נִשְׁמַ֥ע · is heard
    For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.’”
  40. Jeremiah 9:20שְׁמַ֤עְנָה · hear
    Now, O women, hear the word of the LORD. Open your ears to the word of His mouth. Teach your daughters to wail, and one another to lament.
  41. Jeremiah 10:1שִׁמְע֣וּ · Hear
    Hear the word that the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel.
  42. Jeremiah 11:2שִׁמְע֕וּ · Listen
    “Listen to the words of this covenant and tell them to the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.
  43. Jeremiah 11:3יִשְׁמַ֔ע · obey
    You must tell them that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Cursed is the man who does not obey the words of this covenant,
  44. Jeremiah 11:4שִׁמְע֤וּ · Obey Me
    …which I commanded your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, ‘Obey Me, and do everything I command you, and you will be My people, and I will be your God.’
  45. Jeremiah 11:6שִׁמְע֗וּ · Hear
    Then the LORD said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Hear the words of this covenant and carry them out.
  46. Jeremiah 11:7שִׁמְע֖וּ · Obey
    For from the time I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt until today, I strongly warned them again and again, saying, ‘Obey My voice.’
  47. Jeremiah 11:8שָֽׁמְעוּ֙ · obey
    Yet they would not obey or incline their ears, but each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant I had commanded them to follow but they did not keep.”
  48. Jeremiah 11:10לִשְׁמ֣וֹעַ · to obey
    They have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their fathers.
  49. Jeremiah 11:11אֶשְׁמַ֖ע · listen
    Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to bring upon them a disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry out to Me, but I will not listen to them.