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

1 Samuel 15:14 - And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear? H8085

1 Samuel 15:19 - Wherefore then didst thou not obey H8085 the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?

1 Samuel 15:20 - And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed H8085 the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

1 Samuel 15:22 - And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying H8085 the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey H8085 is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

1 Samuel 15:24 - And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed H8085 their voice.

1 Samuel 16:2 - And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear H8085 it, he will kill me. And the LORD said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the LORD.

1 Samuel 17:11 - When Saul and all Israel heard H8085 those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.

1 Samuel 17:23 - And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard H8085 them.

1 Samuel 17:28 - And Eliab his eldest brother heard H8085 when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.

1 Samuel 17:31 - And when the words were heard H8085 which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul: and he sent for him.

1 Samuel 19:6 - And Saul hearkened H8085 unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware, As the LORD liveth, he shall not be slain.

1 Samuel 22:1 - David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard H8085 it, they went down thither to him.

1 Samuel 22:6 - When Saul heard H8085 that David was discovered, and the men that were with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah, having his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him;)

1 Samuel 22:7 - Then Saul said unto his servants that stood about him, Hear now, H8085 ye Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, and make you all captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds;

1 Samuel 22:12 - And Saul said, Hear H8085 now, thou son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my lord.

1 Samuel 23:8 - And Saul called H8085 all the people together H8085 to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.

1 Samuel 23:10 - Then said David, O LORD God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly H8085 heard H8085 that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.

1 Samuel 23:11 - Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? H8085 O LORD God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. And the LORD said, He will come down.

1 Samuel 23:25 - Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard H8085 that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

1 Samuel 24:9 - And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest H8085 thou men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?

1 Samuel 25:4 - And David heard H8085 in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.

1 Samuel 25:7 - And now I have heard H8085 that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.

1 Samuel 25:24 - And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear H8085 the words of thine handmaid.

1 Samuel 25:35 - So David received of her hand that which she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see, I have hearkened H8085 to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.

1 Samuel 25:39 - And when David heard H8085 that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.

1 Samuel 26:19 - Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear H8085 the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.

1 Samuel 28:18 - Because thou obeyedst H8085 not the voice of the LORD, nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done this thing unto thee this day.

1 Samuel 28:21 - And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and said unto him, Behold, thine handmaid hath obeyed H8085 thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened H8085 unto thy words which thou spakest unto me.

1 Samuel 28:22 - Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken H8085 thou also unto the voice of thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way.

1 Samuel 28:23 - But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, compelled him; and he hearkened H8085 unto their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed.

1 Samuel 30:24 - For who will hearken H8085 unto you in this matter? but as his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike.

1 Samuel 31:11 - And when the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead heard H8085 of that which the Philistines had done to Saul;

2 Samuel 3:28 - And afterward when David heard H8085 it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before the LORD for ever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner:

2 Samuel 4:1 - And when Saul's son heard H8085 that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.

2 Samuel 5:17 - But when the Philistines heard H8085 that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines came up to seek David; and David heard H8085 of it, and went down to the hold.

2 Samuel 5:24 - And let it be, when thou hearest H8085 the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall the LORD go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines.

2 Samuel 7:22 - Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard H8085 with our ears.

2 Samuel 8:9 - When Toi king of Hamath heard H8085 that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer,

2 Samuel 10:7 - And when David heard H8085 of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.

2 Samuel 11:26 - And when the wife of Uriah heard H8085 that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.

2 Samuel 12:18 - And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken H8085 unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?

2 Samuel 13:14 - Howbeit he would not hearken H8085 unto her voice: but, being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her.

2 Samuel 13:16 - And she said unto him, There is no cause: this evil in sending me away is greater than the other that thou didst unto me. But he would not hearken H8085 unto her.

2 Samuel 13:21 - But when king David heard H8085 of all these things, he was very wroth.

2 Samuel 14:16 - For the king will hear, H8085 to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

2 Samuel 14:17 - Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern H8085 good and bad: therefore the LORD thy God will be with thee.

2 Samuel 15:3 - And Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters are good and right; but there is no man deputed of the king to hear H8085 thee.

2 Samuel 15:10 - But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, As soon as ye hear H8085 the sound of the trumpet, then ye shall say, Absalom reigneth in Hebron.

2 Samuel 15:35 - And hast thou not there with thee Zadok and Abiathar the priests? therefore it shall be, that what thing soever thou shalt hear H8085 out of the king's house, thou shalt tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.

2 Samuel 15:36 - Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz Zadok's son, and Jonathan Abiathar's son; and by them ye shall send unto me every thing that ye can hear. H8085