Word

שֶׁמֶץ

shemets · H8102 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

whisper

Words uttered very softly, usually without engaging one's vocal cords

Examples
Job 4:12 “Now a word was brought to me secretly, And my ear received a whisper of it.
Job 26:14 “Behold, these are the fringes of His ways; And how faint a word we hear of Him! But His mighty thunder, who can understand?”

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

1 occurrences in 1 groups

דָּבָרword, thing, matter 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

מָהwhat?, why? 1

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

לָקַחto take, to receive 1
שָׁמַעto hear, to listen, to obey 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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Near synonyms 1 word

מְעַט mᵉʻaṭ · H4592 · few, little, small: The most common Hebrew term for 'a little' or small quantity, semantically interchangeable with שֶׁמֶץ in contexts expressing minimal amount

Contrasting words 2 words

רַב rab · H7227 · large, many, numerous: Standard lexical opposite of 'little' in quantity expressions, contrasting minimal with abundant amount
רָבָה râbâh · H7235 · to increase, to multiply, to become numerous: Adverbial/nominal form expressing abundance or large quantity, direct opposite of expressions meaning 'a little'

In the other Testament 2 words

ὀλίγος olígos · G3641 · few, less, little: Greek term for small quantity or degree, natural translation equivalent for Hebrew expressions of 'a little'
μικρός mikrós · G3398 · little, few, limited amount of: Standard Greek translation equivalent for Hebrew terms denoting smallness or littleness in quantity or degree

Semantic domains 1 entry

Speak002004001009008: This noun denotes a faint fragment of speech, as in Job 4:12's account of a word brought secretly, of which the ear received only a whisper.

Word family 2 words

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

שֶׁמֶץshemets · H8102שִׁמְצָה shimtsâh · H8103 · derision · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8102. shemets שֵׁ֫מֶץ noun [masculine] whisper; — ׳שׁ absolute Job 4:12; construct ׳שׁ…

H8102. shemets
שֵׁ֫מֶץ noun [masculine] whisper; — ׳שׁ absolute Job 4:12; construct ׳שׁ דָּבָד Job 26:14 a (mere) whisper of a word, something wholly inadequate.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Speak2 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