Word

שְׁמוּעָה

shᵉmûwʻâh · H8052 · Hebrew · 27 occurrences

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Meanings

news, report, rumor, tidings

Newly received or noteworthy information about recent events

Examples
1 Samuel 2:24 “No, my sons; for the report is not good which I hear the LORD’S people circulating.
1 Samuel 4:19 Now his daughter-in-law, Phinehas’ wife, was pregnant and about to give birth; and when she heard the news that the ark of God had been taken and that her father-in-law and her husband had died, she kneeled down and gave birth, because her pains came upon her.
2 Samuel 4:4 Now Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son who was disabled in both feet. He was five years old when the news of Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and his nurse picked him up and fled. But it happened that in her hurry to flee, he fell and could no longer walk. And his name was Mephibosheth.

How it’s used In 8 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

2 occurrences in 3 groups

יְהוֹנָתָןJonathan 1
שָׁאוּלSaul 1
נוּour 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

8 occurrences in 3 groups

שָׁמַעto hear, to listen, to obey 4
טוֹבgood 2
רַעevil, bad 2

What it doesIt is the subject

7 occurrences in 4 groups

בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 4
דָּשֵׁןto grow fat 1
הָיָהto be, to become 1
בָּהַלto be dismayed, to be terrified 1

What is done to itIt is the object

7 occurrences in 2 groups

שָׁמַעto hear, to listen, to obey 6
בִּיןto understand, to discern 1

Second object ofSecond object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

בִּיןto understand, to discern 1

What it is said to bePredicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

טוֹבgood 1
וֹhim 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

8 occurrences in 5 groups

אֵלto, toward 5
לto/for 4
מִןfrom 2
עַלon, upon, over, against 2
בin/on/with 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

קוֹלvoice, sound 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 2 words

ἀκοή akoḗ · G189 · to hear, hearing, ability to hear: Hebrew שְׁמוּעָה denotes a report/news/rumor (the content of what is heard), while Greek ἀκοή can denote both the act/sense of hearing and the thing heard; the LXX alignment reflects genuine translation equivalence where ἀκοή takes its 'thing heard/report' sense, matching the Hebrew's core semantics.
ἀγγελία angelía · G31 · message, announcement: ἀγγελία (angelía, G31) focuses on the formal announcement or message-content dimension of reported information, while שְׁמוּעָה (shᵉmûwʻâh, H8052) encompasses the broader semantic range of hearsay, rumor, and general report without necessarily implying authoritative proclamation.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Hear002004001003: This noun denotes a report or piece of news that reaches someone's ears, as in 1 Samuel 4:19's account of Phinehas's wife hearing the news that the ark of God had been taken.

Word family 8 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

שָׁמֵם shâmêm · H8074 · to be desolate, to become desolate, to be deserted · 94×שְׁמָמָה shᵉmâmâh · H8077 · desolation, horror · 57×שַׁמָּה shammâh · H8047 · desolation, horror · 39×שְׁמוּעָהshᵉmûwʻâh · H8052מְשַׁמָּה mᵉshammâh · H4923 · desolation, horror · 7×שָׁמֵם shâmêm · H8076 · desolate · 2×שִׁמָּמוֹן shimmâmôwn · H8078 · horror · 2×שְׁמַם shᵉmam · H8075 · be astonied · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8052. shemuah שְׁמוּעָה noun feminine report; — absolute ׳שׁ 1Sa 4:19 +, שְׁמֻעָה 1Sa…

H8052. shemuah
שְׁמוּעָה noun feminine report; — absolute ׳שׁ 1Sa 4:19 +, שְׁמֻעָה 1Sa 2:24 +; construct שְׁמֻעַת 2Sa 4:4; suffix שְׁמֻעָתֵ֫נוּ Isa 53:1; plural absolute שְׁמֻעוֺת Dan 11:44; —
1 report, sometimes after שָׁמַע 1Sa 2:24; 1Sa 4:19 (= news), 1Ki 10:7 2Ch 9:6; 2Ki 19:7= Isa 37:7; Jer 51:46; ׳שׁ רָעָה Jer 49:23, compare Psa 112:7, and ׳שׁ טוֺבָח Pro 15:30; Pro 25:25; tidings about Saul 2Sa 4:4; with בָּאָה 2Sa 13:30 (+ לֵאמֹר), 1Ki 2:28; Eze 21:12; Jer 10:22, compare Jer 51:46 + (בָּאָה omitted) Jer 51:46; שׁ ׳תָּבוֺא ׳אֶלשֿׁ Ezekiel 7:28; ׳שׁ יְבַהֲלֻהוּ Dan 11:44; שְׁמוּעָתֵנוּ Isa 53:1 the report that reached us compare also Isa 28:9, Isa 28:19; Jer 49:14; Obadiah 1 (De Du and others specifically of prophetic message but see GieBeiträge 155 f. We NowObadiah).
2 = mention לִשׁ סְדֹם הָֽיְתָח ׳לאֹ בְּפִיךְ Eze 16:56.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Hear27 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0