H8088bNoun, masculine17 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Genesis 29:13שֵׁמַע
When Laban heard the news about his sister’s son Jacob, he ran out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, where Jacob told him all that had happened.
- Exodus 23:1שֵׁמַע
“You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.
- Numbers 14:15שִׁמְעֲךָ
If You kill this people as one man, the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,
- Job 28:22שִׁמְעָהּ
Abaddon and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor about it.’
- Isaiah 23:5כְּשֵׁמַע
When the report reaches Egypt, they will writhe in agony over the news of Tyre.
- Jeremiah 37:5שִׁמְעָם
Pharaoh’s army had left Egypt, and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard the report, they withdrew from Jerusalem.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.