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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. Jeremiah 11:14שֹׁמֵ֗עַ · be listening
    As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to Me in their time of disaster.
  2. Jeremiah 12:17יִשְׁמָ֑עוּ · obey
    But if they will not obey, then I will uproot that nation; I will uproot it and destroy it, declares the LORD.”
  3. Jeremiah 13:10לִשְׁמ֣וֹעַ · to listen
    These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this loincloth—of no use at all.
  4. Jeremiah 13:11שָׁמֵֽעוּ׃ · listen
    For just as a loincloth clings to a man’s waist, so I have made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to Me, declares the LORD, so that they might be My people for My renown and praise and glory. But they did not listen.
  5. Jeremiah 13:15שִׁמְע֥וּ · Listen
    Listen and give heed. Do not be arrogant, for the LORD has spoken.
  6. Jeremiah 13:17תִשְׁמָע֔וּהָ · listen
    But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.
  7. Jeremiah 14:12שֹׁמֵ֙עַ֙ · listen to
    Although they may fast, I will not listen to their cry; although they may offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will finish them off by sword and famine and plague.”
  8. Jeremiah 16:12שְׁמֹ֥עַ · obeying
    And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.
  9. Jeremiah 17:20שִׁמְע֨וּ · Hear
    Say to them, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, all people of Judah and Jerusalem who enter through these gates.
  10. Jeremiah 17:23שָֽׁמְע֔וּ · listen; שׁוֹמֵעַ · listen
    Yet they would not listen or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and would not listen or receive My discipline.
  11. Jeremiah 17:24שָׁמֹ֨עַ · you listen carefully; תִּשְׁמְע֤וּן
    If, however, you listen carefully to Me, says the LORD, and bring no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, and keep the Sabbath day holy, and do no work on it,
  12. Jeremiah 17:27תִשְׁמְע֜וּ · listen
    But if you do not listen to Me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in its gates to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.’”
  13. Jeremiah 18:2אַשְׁמִֽיעֲךָ֥ · I will give you
    “Go down at once to the potter’s house, and there I will give you My message.”
  14. Jeremiah 18:10שְׁמֹ֣עַ · listen
    …and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it.
  15. Jeremiah 18:13שָׁמַ֖ע · has ever heard
    Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard things like these? Virgin Israel has done a most terrible thing.
  16. Jeremiah 18:19וּשְׁמַ֖ע · Hear
    Attend to me, O LORD. Hear what my accusers are saying!
  17. Jeremiah 18:22תִּשָּׁמַ֤ע · be heard
    Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring raiders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares for my feet.
  18. Jeremiah 19:3שִׁמְע֣וּ · Hear; שֹׁמְעָ֖הּ · who hear of it
    …saying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and residents of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster on this place that the ears of all who hear of it will ring,
  19. Jeremiah 19:15שְׁמ֥וֹעַ · to heed
    “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and on all the villages around it every disaster I have pronounced against them, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.’”
  20. Jeremiah 20:1וַיִּשְׁמַ֤ע · heard
    When Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer and the chief official in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things,
  21. Jeremiah 20:10שָׁמַ֜עְתִּי · I have heard
    For I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!” All my trusted friends watch for my fall: “Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our vengeance upon him.”
  22. Jeremiah 20:16וְשָׁמַ֤ע · May he hear
    May that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without compassion. May he hear an outcry in the morning and a battle cry at noon,
  23. Jeremiah 21:11שִׁמְע֖וּ · to hear
    Moreover, tell the house of the king of Judah to hear the word of the LORD.
  24. Jeremiah 22:2שְׁמַ֣ע · Hear
    …saying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David—you and your officials and your people who enter these gates.
  25. Jeremiah 22:5תִשְׁמְע֔וּ · obey
    But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself, declares the LORD, that this house will become a pile of rubble.’”
  26. Jeremiah 22:21אֶשְׁמָ֑ע · listen; שָׁמַ֖עַתְּ · obeyed
    I warned you when you were secure. You said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from youth, that you have not obeyed My voice.
  27. Jeremiah 22:29שִׁמְעִ֖י · hear
    O land, land, land, hear the word of the LORD!
  28. Jeremiah 23:16תִּשְׁמְע֞וּ · listen
    This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They are filling you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.
  29. Jeremiah 23:18וְיִשְׁמַ֣ע · and hear; וַיִּשְׁמָֽע׃ס · and obeyed it
    But which of them has stood in the council of the LORD to see and hear His word? Who has given heed to His word and obeyed it?
  30. Jeremiah 23:22וְיַשְׁמִ֤עוּ · they would have proclaimed
    But if they had stood in My council, they would have proclaimed My words to My people and turned them back from their evil ways and deeds.”
  31. Jeremiah 23:25שָׁמַ֗עְתִּי · I have heard
    “I have heard the sayings of the prophets who prophesy lies in My name: ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’
  32. Jeremiah 25:3שְׁמַעְתֶּֽם׃ · listened
    “From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day—twenty-three years—the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.
  33. Jeremiah 25:4שְׁמַעְתֶּ֑ם · listened; לִשְׁמֹֽעַ׃ · to hear
    And the LORD has sent all His servants the prophets to you again and again, but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear.
  34. Jeremiah 25:7שְׁמַעְתֶּ֥ם · listened
    ‘But to your own harm, you have not listened to Me,’ declares the LORD, ‘so you have provoked Me to anger with the works of your hands.’
  35. Jeremiah 25:8שְׁמַעְתֶּ֖ם · obeyed
    Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Because you have not obeyed My words,
  36. Jeremiah 26:3יִשְׁמְע֔וּ · they will listen
    Perhaps they will listen and turn—each from his evil way of life—so that I may relent of the disaster I am planning to bring upon them because of the evil of their deeds.
  37. Jeremiah 26:4תִשְׁמְעוּ֙ · listen
    And you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘If you do not listen to Me and walk in My law, which I have set before you,
  38. Jeremiah 26:5לִשְׁמֹ֗עַ · and [if you do not] listen; שְׁמַעְתֶּֽם׃ · listen
    …and if you do not listen to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I have sent you again and again even though you did not listen,
  39. Jeremiah 26:7וַֽיִּשְׁמְע֛וּ · heard
    Now the priests and prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD,
  40. Jeremiah 26:10וַֽיִּשְׁמְע֣וּ׀ · heard
    When the officials of Judah heard these things, they went up from the king’s palace to the house of the LORD and sat there at the entrance of the New Gate.
  41. Jeremiah 26:11שְׁמַעְתֶּ֖ם · you have heard
    Then the priests and prophets said to the officials and all the people, “This man is worthy of death, for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears!”
  42. Jeremiah 26:12שְׁמַעְתֶּֽם׃ · you have heard
    But Jeremiah said to all the officials and all the people, “The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard.
  43. Jeremiah 26:13וְשִׁמְע֕וּ · and obey
    So now, correct your ways and deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, so that He might relent of the disaster He has pronounced against you.