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Strong’s Hebrew

H8085 — shama`

The entry below is Strong’s own definition (1890, public domain), and every verse where the word occurs.

שָׁמַע

shama` — pronounced shaw-mah

a primitive root; to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.):--X attentively, call (gather) together, X carefully, X certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, X diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear(-ken, tell), X indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim(-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, X surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth), witness.

1160 occurrences in the KJV.

Job 13:17

Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.

Job 15:8

Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?

Job 15:17

I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;

Job 16:2

I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

Job 20:3

I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.

Job 21:2

Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.

Job 21:2

Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.

Job 22:27

Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.

Job 26:14

Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

Job 27:9

Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?

Job 28:22

Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.

Job 29:11

When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:

Job 29:21

Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.

Job 31:35

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.

Job 32:10

Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will shew mine opinion.

Job 33:1

Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words.

Job 33:8

Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying,

Job 33:31

Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I will speak.

Job 33:33

If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisdom.

Job 34:2

Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.

Job 34:10

Therefore hearken unto me ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

Job 34:16

If now thou hast understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice of my words.

Job 34:28

So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.

Job 34:34

Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken unto me.

Job 35:13

Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

Job 36:11

If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

Job 36:12

But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

Job 37:2

Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth.

Job 37:2

Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth.

Job 37:4

After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.

Job 39:7

He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.

Job 42:4

Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

Job 42:5

I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.

Psalms 4:1

Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

Psalms 4:3

But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.

Psalms 5:3

My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.

Psalms 6:8

Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.

Psalms 6:9

The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.

Psalms 10:17

LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:

Psalms 17:1

Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

Psalms 17:6

I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.

Psalms 18:6

In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

Psalms 18:44

As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.

Psalms 19:3

There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

Psalms 22:24

For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

Psalms 26:7

That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.

Psalms 27:7

Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

Psalms 28:2

Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

Psalms 28:6

Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.

Psalms 30:10

Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.

Psalms 31:13

For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

Psalms 31:22

For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

Psalms 34:2

My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.

Psalms 34:6

This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

Psalms 34:11

Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

Psalms 34:17

The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

Psalms 38:13

But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.

Psalms 38:14

Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

Psalms 39:12

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Psalms 40:1

I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

Psalms 44:1

We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

Psalms 45:10

Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house;

Psalms 48:8

As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.

Psalms 49:1

Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:

Psalms 50:7

Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.

Psalms 51:8

Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

Psalms 54:2

Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.

Psalms 55:17

Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.

Psalms 55:19

God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.

Psalms 58:5

Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

Psalms 59:7

Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?

Psalms 61:1

Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.

Psalms 61:5

For thou, O God, hast heard my vows: thou hast given me the heritage of those that fear thy name.

Psalms 62:11

God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God.

Psalms 64:1

Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

Psalms 65:2

O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.

Psalms 66:8

O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard:

Psalms 66:16

Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.

Psalms 66:18

If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:

Psalms 66:19

But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.

Psalms 69:33

For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.

Psalms 76:8

Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,

Psalms 78:3

Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

Psalms 78:21

Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;

Psalms 78:59

When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

Psalms 81:5

This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.

Psalms 81:8

Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;

Psalms 81:8

Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;

Psalms 81:11

But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.

Psalms 81:13

Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in 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 hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.

Psalms 92:11

Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.

Psalms 94:9

He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?

Psalms 95:7

For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,

Psalms 97:8

Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of thy judgments, O LORD.

Psalms 102:1

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.

Psalms 102:20

To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;

Psalms 103:20

Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.

Psalms 106:2

Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? who can shew forth all his praise?