# H8088 שֵׁמַע

שֵׁמַע (shêmaʻ), Strong’s H8088: something heard, i.e. a sound, rumor, announcement; abstractly, audience KJV: bruit, fame, hear(-ing), loud, report, speech, tidings.. Occurs 18 times.

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*shêmaʻ* — something heard, i.e. a sound, rumor, announcement; abstractly, audience

KJV: bruit, fame, hear(-ing), loud, report, speech, tidings.

Derived from [שָׁמַע shâmaʻ](https://besorah.bible/word/H8085) (to hear intelligently)

Occurs 18 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- שֵׁ֫מַע n.[m.] hearing, report
- שֶׁ֫מַע n.[m.]
- [שֶׁ֫מַע] n.[m.] sound;—ψ 150:5

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 29:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/29?v=13) — When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and…
- [Exodus 23:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/23?v=1) — “You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
- [Numbers 14:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/14?v=15) — Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,
- [Deuteronomy 2:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/2?v=25) — Today I will begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole sky, who shall…
- [1 Kings 10:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/10?v=1) — When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the LORD’s name, she came to test him with hard…
- [Isaiah 23:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/23?v=5) — When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report of Tyre.
- [Isaiah 66:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/66?v=19) — “I will set a sign among them, and I will send those who escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who…
- [Jeremiah 37:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/37?v=5) — Pharaoh’s army had come out of Egypt; and when the Kasdim who were besieging Jerusalem heard news of them, they…
- [Jeremiah 50:43](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/50?v=43) — The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands become feeble. Anguish has taken hold of him, pains as of…
- [Hosea 7:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/hosea/7?v=12) — When they go, I will spread my net on them. I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them, as…