שָׁמַע

sha.ma

Hebrew H8085 Verb 1,159 occurrences in 1,072 verses
שָׁמַע to hear: hear

v

1. to hear, listen to, obey

a. (Qal)

1. to hear (perceive by ear)

2. to hear of or concerning

3. to hear (have power to hear)

4. to hear with attention or interest, listen to

5. to understand (language)

6. to hear (of judicial cases)

7. to listen, give heed

a. to consent, agree

b. to grant request

8. to listen to, yield to

9. to obey, be obedient

b. (Niphal)

1. to be heard (of voice or sound)

2. to be heard of

3. to be regarded, be obeyed

c. (Piel) to cause to hear, call to hear, summon

d. (Hiphil)

1. to cause to hear, tell, proclaim, utter a sound

2. to sound aloud (musical term)

3. to make proclamation, summon

4. to cause to be heard

n m

2. sound

Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)

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Concordance 1,072 verses

  1. Deuteronomy 27:10 וְשָׁ֣מַעְתָּ֔

    You shall therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God and follow His commandments and statutes I am giving you today.”

  2. Deuteronomy 28:1 שָׁמ֤וֹעַתִּשְׁמַע֙

    “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.

  3. Deuteronomy 28:2 תִשְׁמַ֔ע

    And all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you, if you will obey the voice of the LORD your God:

  4. Deuteronomy 28:13 תִשְׁמַ֞ע

    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.

  5. Deuteronomy 28:15 תִשְׁמַע֙

    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:

  6. Deuteronomy 28:45 שָׁמַ֗עְתָּ

    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.

  7. Deuteronomy 28:49 תִשְׁמַ֖ע

    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,

  8. Deuteronomy 28:62 שָׁמַ֔עְתָּ

    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.

  9. Deuteronomy 29:4 לִשְׁמֹ֑עַ

    Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.

  10. Deuteronomy 29:19 בְּשָׁמְעוֹ֩

    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.

  11. Deuteronomy 30:2 וְשָׁמַעְתָּ֣

    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,

  12. Deuteronomy 30:8 וְשָׁמַעְתָּ֖

    And you will again obey the voice of the LORD and follow all His commandments I am giving you today.

  13. Deuteronomy 30:10 תִשְׁמַ֗ע

    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.

  14. Deuteronomy 30:12 וְיַשְׁמִעֵ֥נוּ

    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?’

  15. Deuteronomy 30:13 וְיַשְׁמִעֵ֥נוּ

    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?’

  16. Deuteronomy 30:17 תִשְׁמָ֑ע

    But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, but are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them,

  17. Deuteronomy 30:20 לִשְׁמֹ֥עַ

    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.”

  18. Deuteronomy 31:12 יִשְׁמְע֜וּ

    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.

  19. Deuteronomy 31:13 יִשְׁמְעוּ֙

    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.”

  20. Deuteronomy 32:1 וְתִשְׁמַ֥ע

    Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

  21. Deuteronomy 33:7 שְׁמַ֤ע

    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.”

  22. Deuteronomy 34:9 וַיִּשְׁמְע֨וּ

    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.

  23. Joshua 1:17 שָׁמַ֙עְנוּ֙נִשְׁמַ֣ע

    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.

  24. Joshua 1:18 יִשְׁמַ֧ע

    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!”

  25. Joshua 2:10 שָׁמַ֗עְנוּ

    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.

  26. Joshua 2:11 וַנִּשְׁמַע֙

    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.

  27. Joshua 3:9 וְשִׁמְע֕וּ

    So Joshua told the Israelites, “Come here and listen to the words of the LORD your God.”

  28. Joshua 5:1 כִשְׁמֹ֣עַ

    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.

  29. Joshua 5:6 שָׁמְע֖וּ

    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.

  30. Joshua 6:5 בְּשָׁמְעֲכֶם

    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.”

  31. Joshua 6:10 תַשְׁמִ֣יעוּ

    But Joshua had commanded the people: “Do not give a battle cry or let your voice be heard; do not let one word come out of your mouth until the day I tell you to shout. Then you are to shout!”

  32. Joshua 6:20 כִשְׁמֹ֨עַ

    So when the rams’ horns sounded, the people shouted. When they heard the blast of the horn, the people gave a great shout, and the wall collapsed. Then all the people charged straight into the city and captured it.

  33. Joshua 7:9 וְיִשְׁמְע֣וּ

    When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will surround us and wipe out our name from the earth. Then what will You do for Your great name?”

  34. Joshua 9:1 כִשְׁמֹ֣עַ

    Now when news of this reached all the kings west of the Jordan—those in the hill country, the foothills, and all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon (the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites)—

  35. Joshua 9:3 שָׁמְע֗וּ

    But the people of Gibeon, having heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,

  36. Joshua 9:9 שָׁמַ֣עְנוּ

    “Your servants have come from a very distant land,” they replied, “because of the fame of the LORD your God. For we have heard the reports about Him: all that He did in Egypt,

  37. Joshua 9:16 וַֽיִּשְׁמְע֗וּ

    Three days after they had made the treaty with the Gibeonites, the Israelites learned that they were neighbors, living among them.

  38. Joshua 10:1 כִשְׁמֹ֨עַ

    Now Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai and devoted it to destruction —doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king—and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living near them.

  39. Joshua 10:14 לִשְׁמֹ֥עַ

    There has been no day like it before or since, when the LORD listened to the voice of a man, because the LORD fought for Israel.

  40. Joshua 11:1 כִּשְׁמֹ֖עַ

    Now when Jabin king of Hazor heard about these things, he sent word to Jobab king of Madon; to the kings of Shimron and Achshaph;

  41. Joshua 14:12 שָׁמַעְתָּ֩

    Now therefore give me this hill country that the LORD promised me on that day, for you yourself heard then that the Anakim were there, with great and fortified cities. Perhaps with the LORD’s help I will drive them out, as the LORD has spoken.”

  42. Joshua 22:2 וַתִּשְׁמְע֣וּ

    and told them, “You have done all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, and you have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you.

  43. Joshua 22:11 וַיִּשְׁמְע֥וּ

    Then the Israelites received the report: “Behold, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar on the border of the land of Canaan, at Geliloth near the Jordan on the Israelite side.”

  44. Joshua 22:12 וַֽיִּשְׁמְע֖וּ

    And when they heard this, the whole congregation of Israel assembled at Shiloh to go to war against them.

  45. Joshua 22:30 וַיִּשְׁמַ֞ע

    When Phinehas the priest and the chiefs of the congregation—the heads of Israel’s clans who were with him—heard what the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh had to say, they were satisfied.

  46. Joshua 24:10 לִשְׁמֹ֣עַ

    but I would not listen to Balaam. So he blessed you again and again, and I delivered you from his hand.

  47. Joshua 24:24 נִשְׁמָֽע׃

    So the people said to Joshua, “We will serve the LORD our God and obey His voice.”

  48. Joshua 24:27 שָׁמְעָ֗ה

    And Joshua said to all the people, “You see this stone. It will be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words the LORD has spoken to us, and it will be a witness against you if you ever deny your God.”

  49. Judges 2:2 שְׁמַעְתֶּ֥ם

    and you are not to make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall tear down their altars.’ Yet you have not obeyed My voice. What is this you have done?

  50. Judges 2:17 שָׁמֵ֔עוּלִשְׁמֹ֥עַ

    Israel, however, did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods and bowed down to them. They quickly turned from the way of their fathers, who had walked in obedience to the LORD’s commandments; they did not do as their fathers had done.

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