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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 26:21וַיִּשְׁמַ֣ע · heard; וַיִּשְׁמַ֤ע · found out about it
    King Jehoiakim and all his mighty men and officials heard his words, and the king sought to put him to death. But when Uriah found out about it, he fled in fear and went to Egypt.
  2. Jeremiah 27:9תִּשְׁמְע֨וּ · listen
    But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your interpreters of dreams, your mediums, or your sorcerers who declare, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’
  3. Jeremiah 27:14תִּשְׁמְע֞וּ · listen
    Do not listen to the words of the prophets who say, ‘You must not serve the king of Babylon,’ for they are prophesying to you a lie.
  4. Jeremiah 27:16תִּשְׁמְע֞וּ · listen
    Then I said to the priests and to all this people, “This is what the LORD says: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, ‘Look, very soon now the articles from the house of the LORD will be brought back from Babylon.’ They are prophesying to you a lie.
  5. Jeremiah 27:17תִּשְׁמְע֣וּ · listen
    Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live! Why should this city become a ruin?
  6. Jeremiah 28:7שְׁמַֽע־ · listen
    Nevertheless, listen now to this message I am speaking in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people.
  7. Jeremiah 28:15שְׁמַֽע־ · Listen
    Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah, “Listen, Hananiah! The LORD did not send you, but you have persuaded this people to trust in a lie.
  8. Jeremiah 29:8תִּשְׁמְעוּ֙ · listen
    For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Do not be deceived by the prophets and diviners among you, and do not listen to the dreams you elicit from them.
  9. Jeremiah 29:12וְשָׁמַעְתִּ֖י · and I will listen
    Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
  10. Jeremiah 29:19שָׁמְע֥וּ · listened; שְׁמַעְתֶּ֖ם · listened
    I will do this because they have not listened to My words, declares the LORD, which I sent to them again and again through My servants the prophets. And neither have you exiles listened, declares the LORD.”
  11. Jeremiah 29:20שִׁמְע֣וּ · So hear
    So hear the word of the LORD, all you exiles I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.
  12. Jeremiah 30:5שָׁמָ֑עְנוּ · is heard
    Yes, this is what the LORD says: “A cry of panic is heard—a cry of terror, not of peace.
  13. Jeremiah 31:7הַשְׁמִ֤יעוּ · Make
    For this is what the LORD says: “Sing with joy for Jacob; shout for the foremost of the nations! Make your praises heard, and say, ‘O LORD, save Your people, the remnant of Israel!’
  14. Jeremiah 31:10שִׁמְע֤וּ · Hear
    Hear, O nations, the word of the LORD, and proclaim it in distant coastlands: “The One who scattered Israel will gather them and keep them as a shepherd keeps his flock.
  15. Jeremiah 31:15נִשְׁמָע֙ · is heard
    This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
  16. Jeremiah 31:18שָׁמ֣וֹעַ · I have surely heard; שָׁמַ֗עְתִּי
    I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.
  17. Jeremiah 32:23שָׁמְע֤וּ · obey
    They came in and possessed it, but they did not obey Your voice or walk in Your law. They failed to perform all that You commanded them to do, and so You have brought upon them all this disaster.
  18. Jeremiah 32:33שֹׁמְעִ֖ים · listen
    They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.
  19. Jeremiah 33:9יִשְׁמְע֜וּ · will hear
    So this city will bring Me renown, joy, praise, and glory before all the nations of the earth, who will hear of all the good I do for it. They will tremble in awe because of all the goodness and prosperity that I will provide for it.
  20. Jeremiah 33:10יִשָּׁמַ֣ע · there will be heard
    This is what the LORD says: In this place you say is a wasteland without man or beast, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted—inhabited by neither man nor beast—there will be heard again
  21. Jeremiah 34:4שְׁמַ֣ע · hear
    Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah. This is what the LORD says concerning you: You will not die by the sword;
  22. Jeremiah 34:10וַיִּשְׁמְעוּ֩ · agreed; וַֽיִּשְׁמְע֖וּ · They obeyed
    So all the officials and all the people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their menservants and maidservants and no longer hold them in bondage. They obeyed and released them,
  23. Jeremiah 34:14שָׁמְע֤וּ · listen
    Every seventh year, each of you must free his Hebrew brother who has sold himself to you. He may serve you six years, but then you must let him go free. But your fathers did not listen or incline their ear.
  24. Jeremiah 34:17שְׁמַעְתֶּ֣ם · obeyed
    Therefore this is what the LORD says: You have not obeyed Me; you have not proclaimed freedom, each man for his brother and for his neighbor. So now I proclaim freedom for you, declares the LORD—freedom to fall by sword, by plague, and by famine! I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
  25. Jeremiah 35:8וַנִּשְׁמַ֗ע · And we have obeyed
    And we have obeyed the voice of our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab in all he commanded us. So we have not drunk wine all our lives—neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters.
  26. Jeremiah 35:10וַנִּשְׁמַ֣ע · and have obeyed
    But we have lived in tents and have obeyed and done exactly as our forefather Jonadab commanded us.
  27. Jeremiah 35:13לִשְׁמֹ֥עַ · and obey
    “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Go and tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem: ‘Will you not accept discipline and obey My words?’ declares the LORD.
  28. Jeremiah 35:14שָֽׁמְע֔וּ · they have obeyed; שְׁמַעְתֶּ֖ם · obeyed Me
    The words of Jonadab son of Rechab have been carried out. He commanded his sons not to drink wine, and they have not drunk it to this very day because they have obeyed the command of their forefather. But I have spoken to you again and again, and you have not obeyed Me!
  29. Jeremiah 35:15שְׁמַעְתֶּ֖ם · listened
    Again and again I have sent you all My servants the prophets, proclaiming: ‘Turn now, each of you, from your wicked ways, and correct your actions. Do not go after other gods to serve them. Live in the land that I have given to you and your fathers.’ But you have not inclined your ear or listened to Me.
  30. Jeremiah 35:16שָׁמְע֖וּ · listened
    Yes, the sons of Jonadab son of Rechab carried out the command their forefather gave them, but these people have not listened to Me.
  31. Jeremiah 35:17שָׁמֵ֔עוּ · obeyed
    Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will bring to Judah and to all the residents of Jerusalem all the disaster I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken to them but they have not obeyed, and I have called to them but they have not answered.’”
  32. Jeremiah 35:18שְׁמַעְתֶּ֔ם · you have obeyed
    Then Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites: “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Because you have obeyed the command of your forefather Jonadab and have kept all his commandments and have done all that he charged you to do,
  33. Jeremiah 36:3יִשְׁמְעוּ֙ · hear
    Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about all the calamity I plan to bring upon them, each of them will turn from his wicked way. Then I will forgive their iniquity and their sin.”
  34. Jeremiah 36:11וַ֠יִּשְׁמַ֗ע · heard
    When Micaiah son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, heard all the words of the LORD from the scroll,
  35. Jeremiah 36:13שָׁמֵ֑עַ · he had heard
    And Micaiah reported to them all the words he had heard Baruch read from the scroll in the hearing of the people.
  36. Jeremiah 36:16כְּשָׁמְעָם֙ · When they had heard
    When they had heard all these words, they turned to one another in fear and said to Baruch, “Surely we must report all these words to the king.”
  37. Jeremiah 36:24הַשֹּׁ֣מְעִ֔ים · Yet in hearing
    Yet in hearing all these words, the king and his servants did not become frightened or tear their garments.
  38. Jeremiah 36:25שָׁמַ֖ע · listen
    Even though Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.
  39. Jeremiah 36:31שָׁמֵֽעוּ׃ס · listen
    I will punish him and his descendants and servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the residents of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the calamity about which I warned them but they did not listen.”
  40. Jeremiah 37:2שָׁמַ֛ע · to obey
    But he and his officers and the people of the land refused to obey the words that the LORD had spoken through Jeremiah the prophet.
  41. Jeremiah 37:5וַיִּשְׁמְע֨וּ · heard
    Pharaoh’s army had left Egypt, and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard the report, they withdrew from Jerusalem.
  42. Jeremiah 37:14שָׁמַ֖ע · listen
    “That is a lie,” Jeremiah replied. “I am not deserting to the Chaldeans!” But Irijah would not listen to him; instead, he arrested Jeremiah and took him to the officials.
  43. Jeremiah 37:20שְֽׁמַֽע־ · listen
    But now please listen, O my lord the king. May my petition come before you. Do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, or I will die there.”
  44. Jeremiah 38:1וַיִּשְׁמַ֞ע · heard
    Now Shephatiah son of Mattan, Gedaliah son of Pashhur, Jucal son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur son of Malchijah heard that Jeremiah had been telling all the people:
  45. Jeremiah 38:7וַיִּשְׁמַ֡ע · heard
    Now Ebed-melech the Cushite, a court official in the royal palace, heard that Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. While the king was sitting at the Gate of Benjamin,