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# שֵׁמַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8088

**hearing** — used 17 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

hearing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8088/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֵׁ֫מַע: hearing, report [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8088/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] hearing, report (on form cf. LagBN 143);—שׁ׳ abs. Is 23:5; cstr. v 5 +; sf. שִׁמְעִי 66:19, etc.;—report, usually c. genit. obj.: acc. with שָׁמַע Gn 29:13 (J) the tidings about Jacob, Is 23:5 + (c. sf.) Nu 14:15 (JE), Dt 2:25; 1 K 10:1 = 2 Ch 9:1; Na 3:19; Hb 3:2; Je 37:5; 50:43; Is 66:19, c. ל genit. Is 23:5; לַעֲדָתָם Ho 7:12 usually according to the report (heard by) their congregation (!), but inexpl. and prob. corrupt, We Now; Marti (cf. Oettli) עַל־רָעָתָם (כְּשֵׁמַע as gloss) according to their wickedness; נָשָׂא שׁ׳ שָׁוְא Ex 23:1 (E) take up (utter) a false report; לְשׁ׳ אֹזֶן ψ 18:45 i.e. as soon as heard of, = mere report Jb 42:5 (opp. personal knowledge), cf. שִׁמְעָהּ 28:22.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: report (8); the report (4); a report (2).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 23:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.23.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.23.5/#tree)

כַּֽאֲשֶׁר־שֵׁ֖מַע לְמִצְרָ֑יִם יָחִ֖ילוּ כְּשֵׁ֥מַע צֹֽר׃

*Word for word:* when a.report \[is\].to Egypt people.will.be.in.anguish like the.report of.Tyre

*JPS 1917:* When the report cometh to Egypt, they shall be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.

[Job 28:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.22/#tree)

אֲבַדּ֣וֹן וָ֭מָוֶת אָ֣מְר֑וּ בְּ֝אָזְנֵ֗ינוּ שָׁמַ֥עְנוּ שִׁמְעָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* Abaddon and death they.say with ears our we.have.heard report its

*JPS 1917:* Destruction and Death say: 'We have heard a rumor thereof with our ears.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8088.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8088/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).