שָׁמַע shâmaʻ

Hebrew · Strong's H8085 · pronounced shaw-mah' · used 1160 times in 1073 verses

Meaning

to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)

In the King James Version: [idiom] attentively, call (gather) together, [idiom] carefully, [idiom] certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, [idiom] diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear(-ken, tell), [idiom] indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim(-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, [idiom] surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth), witness.

Derivation: a primitive root;

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Where it is used

Psalms 28:6 Blessed be the LORD, for He has heard my cry for mercy.
Psalms 30:10 Hear me, O LORD, and have mercy; O LORD, be my helper.”
Psalms 31:13 For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side. They conspire against me and plot to take my life.
Psalms 31:22 In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.
Psalms 34:2 My soul boasts in the LORD; let the oppressed hear and rejoice.
Psalms 34:6 This poor man called out, and the LORD heard him; He saved him from all his troubles.
Psalms 34:11 Come, children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
Psalms 34:17 The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears; He delivers them from all their troubles.
Psalms 38:13 But like a deaf man, I do not hear; and like a mute man, I do not open my mouth.
Psalms 38:14 I am like a man who cannot hear, whose mouth offers no reply.
Psalms 39:12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
Psalms 40:1 For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; He inclined to me and heard my cry.
Psalms 44:1 For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.
Psalms 45:10 Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house,
Psalms 48:8 As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of the LORD of Hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish her forever. Selah
Psalms 49:1 For the choirmaster. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Hear this, all you peoples; listen, all inhabitants of the world,
Psalms 50:7 “Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God.
Psalms 51:8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.
Psalms 54:2 Hear my prayer, O God; listen to the words of my mouth.
Psalms 55:17 Morning, noon, and night, I cry out in distress, and He hears my voice.
Psalms 55:19 God will hear and humiliate them—the One enthroned for the ages—Selah because they do not change and they have no fear of God.
Psalms 58:5 refusing to hear the tune of the charmer who skillfully weaves his spell.
Psalms 59:7 See what they spew from their mouths—sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?”
Psalms 61:1 For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. Of David. Hear my cry, O God; attend to my prayer.
Psalms 61:5 For You have heard my vows, O God; You have given me the inheritance reserved for those who fear Your name.
Psalms 62:11 God has spoken once; I have heard this twice: that power belongs to God,
Psalms 64:1 For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Hear, O God, my voice of complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy.
Psalms 65:2 O You who listen to prayer, all people will come to You.
Psalms 66:8 Bless our God, O peoples; let the sound of His praise be heard.
Psalms 66:16 Come and listen, all you who fear God, and I will declare what He has done for me.
Psalms 66:18 If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
Psalms 66:19 But God has surely heard; He has attended to the sound of my prayer.
Psalms 69:33 For the LORD listens to the needy and does not despise His captive people.
Psalms 76:8 From heaven You pronounced judgment, and the earth feared and was still
Psalms 78:3 that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
Psalms 78:21 Therefore the LORD heard and was filled with wrath; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and His anger flared against Israel,
Psalms 78:59 On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.
Psalms 81:5 He ordained it as a testimony for Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt, where I heard an unfamiliar language:
Psalms 81:8 Hear, O My people, and I will warn you: O Israel, if only you would listen to Me!
Psalms 81:11 But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me.
Psalms 81:13 If only My people would listen to Me, if Israel would follow My ways,
Psalms 84:8 O LORD God of Hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah
Psalms 85:8 I will listen to what God the LORD will say; for He will surely speak peace to His people and His saints; He will not let them return to folly.
Psalms 92:11 My eyes see the downfall of my enemies; my ears hear the wailing of my wicked foes.
Psalms 94:9 He who affixed the ear, can He not hear? He who formed the eye, can He not see?
Psalms 95:7 For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice,
Psalms 97:8 Zion hears and rejoices, and the towns of Judah exult because of Your judgments, O LORD.
Psalms 102:1 A prayer of one who is afflicted, when he grows faint and pours out his lament before the LORD. Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry for help come before You.
Psalms 102:20 to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to release those condemned to death,
Psalms 103:20 Bless the LORD, all His angels mighty in strength who carry out His word, who hearken to the voice of His command.
Psalms 106:2 Who can describe the mighty acts of the LORD or fully proclaim His praise?
Psalms 106:25 They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.
Psalms 106:44 Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress.
Psalms 115:6 they have ears, but cannot hear; they have noses, but cannot smell;
Psalms 116:1 I love the LORD, for He has heard my voice—my appeal for mercy.
Psalms 119:149 Hear my voice, O LORD, according to Your loving devotion; give me life according to Your justice.
Psalms 130:2 O Lord, hear my voice; let Your ears be attentive to my plea for mercy.
Psalms 132:6 We heard that the ark was in Ephrathah; we found it in the fields of Jaar.
Psalms 138:4 All the kings of the earth will give You thanks, O LORD, when they hear the words of Your mouth.
Psalms 141:6 When their rulers are thrown down from the cliffs, the people will listen to my words, for they are pleasant.