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H8088Hebrew

שֵׁמַע

Definition and meaning

shema` (shay'-mah) n-m. 1. something heard, i.e. a sound, rumor, announcement 2. abstractly, audience [from H8085] KJV: bruit, fame, hear(-ing), loud, report, speech, tidings. Root(s): H8085

Tagged KJV passages

17 matching verses - 18.0 tagged occurrences

Highlighted words carry the exact Strong's tag in the installed KJV text. A verse may contain more than one occurrence. These are tagged English renderings, not independently verified original-language token counts.

Genesis 29:13

And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.

Matched English: tidings
Exodus 23:1

Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

Matched English: report
Numbers 14:15

Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,

Matched English: fame
Deuteronomy 2:25

This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.

Matched English: report
1 Kings 10:1

And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.

Matched English: fame
2 Chronicles 9:1

And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.

Matched English: fame
Job 28:22

Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.

Matched English: fame
Job 42:5

I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.

Matched English: hearing
Psalms 18:44

As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.

Matched English: hear
Psalms 150:5

Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.

Matched English: loud
Isaiah 23:5

As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.

Matched English: report, report
Isaiah 66:19

And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.

Matched English: fame
Jeremiah 37:5

Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed from Jerusalem.

Matched English: tidings
Jeremiah 50:43

The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.

Matched English: report
Hosea 7:12

When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.

Matched English: heard
Nahum 3:19

There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?

Matched English: bruit
Habakkuk 3:2

O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.

Matched English: speech