# H8085 שָׁמַע

שָׁמַע (shâmaʻ), Strong’s H8085: to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.) KJV: [idiom] attentively, call (gather) together, [idiom]…

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*shâmaʻ* — to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)

KJV: [idiom] attentively, call (gather) together, [idiom] carefully, [idiom] certainly…

Occurs 1158 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- שָׁמַע 1152 vb. hear
- Qal 1052
- 1 subj. pers. hum.
- 2 י׳ (God) subj.
- Niph. 42
- 1 be heard, of voice, sound
- 2 be heard of
- 3 be regarded, obeyed
- 4 = (favourable) hearing was granted to their voice.
- Pi. he caused the people to hear
- Hiph. 63
- 1 of man
- 2 י׳ subj.

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 3:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=8) — They heard the LORD God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves…
- [Genesis 3:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=10) — The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself.”
- [Genesis 3:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=17) — To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and have eaten from the tree, about which I commanded…
- [Genesis 4:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=23) — Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, for I have slain a…
- [Genesis 11:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=7) — Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
- [Genesis 14:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=14) — When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his three hundred eighteen trained men, born in his…
- [Genesis 16:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/16?v=2) — Sarai said to Abram, “See now, the LORD has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I…
- [Genesis 16:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/16?v=11) — The LORD’s angel said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael…
- [Genesis 17:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/17?v=20) — As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him…
- [Genesis 18:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=10) — He said, “I will certainly return to you at about this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.”…