שֹׁמַע
shômaʻ · H8089 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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news, report, rumor, tidings
Newly received or noteworthy information about recent events
ExamplesJoshua 6:27 So the LORD was with Joshua, and his fame was in all the land.
Joshua 9:9 They said to him, “Your servants have come from a very distant country because of the fame of the LORD your God; for we have heard the report about Him and all that He did in Egypt,
Esther 9:4 For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and the news about him spread throughout the provinces; for the man Mordecai became greater and greater.
How it’s used In 3 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
4 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּhis 4
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
- הָלַךְto go, to walk 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- שָׁמַעto hear, to listen, to obey 2
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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Semantic domains 1 entry
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- This noun denotes renown that spreads by being heard of, as in Joshua 6:27's report that the LORD was with Joshua, so that his fame was in all the land.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8089. shoma [שֹׁ֫מַע] noun masculineEst 9:4 report; — suffix שָׁמְעוֺ: שׁ ׳וַיְהִי Jos…
[שֹׁ֫מַע] noun masculineEst 9:4 report; — suffix שָׁמְעוֺ: שׁ ׳וַיְהִי Jos 6:27, the report of him went, etc.; שׁ ׳שָׁמַע Jos 9:9 (both RD), Jer 6:24; ׳וְשׁ בְּכָלהַֿמְּדִינוֺת הוֺלֵךְ Est 9:4.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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