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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. Deuteronomy 17:4וְשָׁמָ֑עְתָּ · and you hear about it
    …and if it is reported and you hear about it, you must investigate it thoroughly. If the report is true and such an abomination has happened in Israel,
  2. Deuteronomy 17:12שְׁמֹ֤עַ · to listen
    But the man who acts presumptuously, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands there to serve the LORD your God, or to the judge, must be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel.
  3. Deuteronomy 17:13יִשְׁמְע֣וּ · will hear
    Then all the people will hear and be afraid, and will no longer behave arrogantly.
  4. Deuteronomy 18:14יִשְׁמָ֑עוּ · listen
    Though these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.
  5. Deuteronomy 18:15תִּשְׁמָעֽוּן׃ · You must listen
    The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him.
  6. Deuteronomy 18:16לִשְׁמֹ֙עַ֙ · hear
    This is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God or see this great fire anymore, so that we will not die!”
  7. Deuteronomy 18:19יִשְׁמַע֙ · listen
    And I will hold accountable anyone who does not listen to My words that the prophet speaks in My name.
  8. Deuteronomy 19:20יִשְׁמְע֣וּ · will hear
    Then the rest of the people will hear and be afraid, and they will never again do anything so evil among you.
  9. Deuteronomy 20:3שְׁמַ֣ע · Hear
    …saying to them, “Hear, O Israel, today you are going into battle with your enemies. Do not be fainthearted or afraid; do not be alarmed or terrified because of them.
  10. Deuteronomy 21:18שֹׁמֵ֔עַ · obey; יִשְׁמַ֖ע · does not listen
    If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,
  11. Deuteronomy 21:20שֹׁמֵ֖עַ · obey us
    …and say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”
  12. Deuteronomy 21:21יִשְׁמְע֥וּ · will hear
    Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. So you must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.
  13. Deuteronomy 23:5לִשְׁמֹ֣עַ · listen
    Yet the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, and the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you.
  14. Deuteronomy 26:7וַיִּשְׁמַ֤ע · heard
    So we called out to the LORD, the God of our fathers; and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, toil, and oppression.
  15. Deuteronomy 26:14שָׁמַ֗עְתִּי · I have obeyed
    I have not eaten any of the sacred portion while in mourning, or removed any of it while unclean, or offered any of it for the dead. I have obeyed the LORD my God; I have done everything You commanded me.
  16. Deuteronomy 26:17וְלִשְׁמֹ֥עַ · and listen
    Today you have proclaimed that the LORD is your God and that you will walk in His ways, keep His statutes and commandments and ordinances, and listen to His voice.
  17. Deuteronomy 27:9וּשְׁמַע֙ · and listen
    Then Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel: “Be silent, O Israel, and listen! This day you have become the people of the LORD your God.
  18. Deuteronomy 27:10וְשָׁ֣מַעְתָּ֔ · You shall therefore obey
    You shall therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God and follow His commandments and statutes I am giving you today.”
  19. Deuteronomy 28:1שָׁמ֤וֹעַ · you faithfully obey; תִּשְׁמַע֙
    “Now if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God and are careful to follow all His commandments I am giving you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
  20. Deuteronomy 28:2תִשְׁמַ֔ע · you will obey
    And all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you, if you will obey the voice of the LORD your God:
  21. Deuteronomy 28:13תִשְׁמַ֞ע · you hear
    The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward, if you hear and carefully follow the commandments of the LORD your God, which I am giving you today.
  22. Deuteronomy 28:15תִשְׁמַע֙ · obey
    If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
  23. Deuteronomy 28:45שָׁמַ֗עְתָּ · obey
    All these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the LORD your God and keep the commandments and statutes He gave you.
  24. Deuteronomy 28:49תִשְׁמַ֖ע · understand
    The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,
  25. Deuteronomy 28:62שָׁמַ֔עְתָּ · obey
    You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left few in number, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
  26. Deuteronomy 29:4לִשְׁמֹ֑עַ · to hear
    Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.
  27. Deuteronomy 29:19בְּשָׁמְעוֹ֩ · because when such a person hears
    …because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.
  28. Deuteronomy 30:2וְשָׁמַעְתָּ֣ · and obey
    …and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today,
  29. Deuteronomy 30:8וְשָׁמַעְתָּ֖ · obey
    And you will again obey the voice of the LORD and follow all His commandments I am giving you today.
  30. Deuteronomy 30:10תִשְׁמַ֗ע · you obey
    …if you obey the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
  31. Deuteronomy 30:12וְיַשְׁמִעֵ֥נוּ · and proclaim
    It is not in heaven, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will ascend into heaven to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’
  32. Deuteronomy 30:13וְיַשְׁמִעֵ֥נוּ · and proclaim
    And it is not beyond the sea, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will cross the sea to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’
  33. Deuteronomy 30:17תִשְׁמָ֑ע · listen
    But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, but are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them,
  34. Deuteronomy 30:20לִשְׁמֹ֥עַ · obey Him
    …and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
  35. Deuteronomy 31:12יִשְׁמְע֜וּ · they may listen
    Assemble the people—men, women, children, and the foreigners within your gates—so that they may listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and to follow carefully all the words of this law.
  36. Deuteronomy 31:13יִשְׁמְעוּ֙ · will listen
    Then their children who do not know the law will listen and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
  37. Deuteronomy 32:1וְתִשְׁמַ֥ע · hear
    Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
  38. Deuteronomy 33:7שְׁמַ֤ע · hear
    And concerning Judah he said: “O LORD, hear the cry of Judah and bring him to his people. With his own hands he defends his cause, but may You be a help against his foes.”
  39. Deuteronomy 34:9וַיִּשְׁמְע֨וּ · obeyed
    Now Joshua son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom because Moses had laid his hands on him. So the Israelites obeyed him and did as the LORD had commanded Moses.
  40. Joshua 1:17שָׁמַ֙עְנוּ֙ · so we will obey you; נִשְׁמַ֣ע · we obeyed
    Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will obey you. And may the LORD your God be with you, as He was with Moses.
  41. Joshua 1:18יִשְׁמַ֧ע · obey
    Anyone who rebels against your order and does not obey your words, all that you command him, will be put to death. Above all, be strong and courageous!”
  42. Joshua 2:10שָׁמַ֗עְנוּ · we have heard
    For we have heard how the LORD dried up the waters of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites across the Jordan, whom you devoted to destruction.
  43. Joshua 2:11וַנִּשְׁמַע֙ · When we heard this
    When we heard this, our hearts melted and everyone’s courage failed because of you, for the LORD your God is God in the heavens above and on the earth below.
  44. Joshua 3:9וְשִׁמְע֕וּ · and listen
    So Joshua told the Israelites, “Come here and listen to the words of the LORD your God.”
  45. Joshua 5:1כִשְׁמֹ֣עַ · heard
    Now when all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the coast heard how the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over, their hearts melted and their spirits failed for fear of the Israelites.
  46. Joshua 5:6שָׁמְע֖וּ · obey
    For the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation’s men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
  47. Joshua 6:5בְּשָׁמְעֲכֶם · and you hear
    And when there is a long blast of the ram’s horn and you hear its sound, have all the people give a mighty shout. Then the wall of the city will collapse and all your people will charge straight into the city.”