Strong's Concordance H8085

Original Word: שָׁמַע
Transliteration: shâmaʻ
Phonetic Spelling: shaw-mah'
a primitive root; to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.); × 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.

Usages throughout the bible

2 Kings 22:18 - But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of the LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, As touching the words which thou hast heard; H8085

2 Kings 22:19 - Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest H8085 what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard H8085 thee, saith the LORD.

2 Kings 25:23 - And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard H8085 that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.

1 Chronicles 10:11 - And when all Jabeshgilead heard H8085 all that the Philistines had done to Saul,

1 Chronicles 14:8 - And when the Philistines heard H8085 that David was anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David. And David heard H8085 of it, and went out against them.

1 Chronicles 14:15 - And it shall be, when thou shalt hear H8085 a sound of going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt go out to battle: for God is gone forth before thee to smite the host of the Philistines.

1 Chronicles 15:16 - And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, H8085 by lifting up the voice with joy.

1 Chronicles 15:19 - So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound H8085 with cymbals of brass;

1 Chronicles 15:28 - Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise H8085 with psalteries and harps.

1 Chronicles 16:5 - Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obededom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a sound H8085 with cymbals;

1 Chronicles 16:42 - And with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should make a sound, H8085 and with musical instruments of God. And the sons of Jeduthun were porters.

1 Chronicles 17:20 - O LORD, there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard H8085 with our ears.

1 Chronicles 18:9 - Now when Tou king of Hamath heard H8085 how David had smitten all the host of Hadarezer king of Zobah;

1 Chronicles 19:8 - And when David heard H8085 of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.

1 Chronicles 28:2 - Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear H8085 me, my brethren, and my people: As for me, I had in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the building:

1 Chronicles 29:23 - Then Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed H8085 him.

2 Chronicles 5:13 - It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard H8085 in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;

2 Chronicles 6:19 - Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken H8085 unto the cry and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee:

2 Chronicles 6:20 - That thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name there; to hearken H8085 unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this place.

2 Chronicles 6:21 - Hearken H8085 therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear H8085 thou from thy dwelling place, even from heaven; and when thou hearest, H8085 forgive.

2 Chronicles 6:23 - Then hear H8085 thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.

2 Chronicles 6:25 - Then hear H8085 thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers.

2 Chronicles 6:27 - Then hear H8085 thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.

2 Chronicles 6:30 - Then hear H8085 thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)

2 Chronicles 6:33 - Then hear H8085 thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.

2 Chronicles 6:35 - Then hear H8085 thou from the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

2 Chronicles 6:39 - Then hear H8085 thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee.

2 Chronicles 7:12 - And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard H8085 thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice.

2 Chronicles 7:14 - If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear H8085 from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

2 Chronicles 9:1 - And when the queen of Sheba heard H8085 of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.

2 Chronicles 9:5 - And she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard H8085 in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:

2 Chronicles 9:6 - Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: for thou exceedest the fame that I heard. H8085

2 Chronicles 9:7 - Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear H8085 thy wisdom.

2 Chronicles 9:23 - And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear H8085 his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.

2 Chronicles 10:2 - And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of Solomon the king, heard H8085 it, that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.

2 Chronicles 10:15 - So the king hearkened H8085 not unto the people: for the cause was of God, that the LORD might perform his word, which he spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

2 Chronicles 10:16 - And when all Israel saw that the king would not hearken H8085 unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? and we have none inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel: and now, David, see to thine own house. So all Israel went to their tents.

2 Chronicles 11:4 - Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: return every man to his house: for this thing is done of me. And they obeyed H8085 the words of the LORD, and returned from going against Jeroboam.

2 Chronicles 13:4 - And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear H8085 me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;

2 Chronicles 15:2 - And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear H8085 ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

2 Chronicles 15:8 - And when Asa heard H8085 these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 16:4 - And Benhadad hearkened H8085 unto king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelmaim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.

2 Chronicles 16:5 - And it came to pass, when Baasha heard H8085 it, that he left off building of Ramah, and let his work cease.

2 Chronicles 18:18 - Again he said, Therefore hear H8085 the word of the LORD; I saw the LORD sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left.

2 Chronicles 18:27 - And Micaiah said, If thou certainly return in peace, then hath not the LORD spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, H8085 all ye people.

2 Chronicles 20:9 - If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear H8085 and help.

2 Chronicles 20:20 - And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear H8085 me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.

2 Chronicles 20:29 - And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of those countries, when they had heard H8085 that the LORD fought against the enemies of Israel.

2 Chronicles 23:12 - Now when Athaliah heard H8085 the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the LORD:

2 Chronicles 24:17 - Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened H8085 unto them.