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# שֹׁמַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8089

**report** — used 4 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

report [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8089/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֹׁ֫מַע: n.m. report [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8089/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Est 9:4 report;—sf. ׃שָׁמְעוֹ וַיְהִי שׁ׳ Jos 6:27, the report of him went, etc.; שָׁמַע שׁ׳ 9:9 (both RD), Je 6:24; וְשׁ׳ הוֹלֵךְ בְּכָל־הַמְּדִינוֹת Est 9:4.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 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: of him (2); of it (1); the report (1).

## In the verses

[Joshua 6:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.6.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.6.27/#tree)

וַיְהִ֥י יְהוָ֖ה אֶת־יְהוֹשֻׁ֑עַ וַיְהִ֥י שָׁמְע֖וֹ בְּכָל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* and he.was Yahweh with Joshua and it.was of.him the.report in all the land

*JPS 1917:* So the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was in all the land.

[Jeremiah 6:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.6.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.6.24/#tree)

שָׁמַ֥עְנוּ אֶת־שָׁמְע֖וֹ רָפ֣וּ יָדֵ֑ינוּ צָרָה֙ הֶחֱזִיקַ֔תְנוּ חִ֖יל כַּיּוֹלֵדָֽה׃

*Word for word:* we.heard (et) of.it the.report they.dropped hands our distress it took.hold.of.us anguish like.(the) \[woman who\].gives.birth

*JPS 1917:* 'We have heard the fame thereof, our hands wax feeble, anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8089.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8089/): 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).