# שֵׁמַע (shema)

Israeli respelling: she-ma. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H8088. 17 Old Testament occurrences.

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

King James renderings: bruit, fame, hear(-ing), loud, report, speech, tidings.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/shema-h8088

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 29:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Exodus 23:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/23/1) — Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
- [Numbers 14:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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,
- [Deuteronomy 2:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [1 Kings 10:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [2 Chronicles 9:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 com…
- [Job 28:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/28/22) — Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
- [Job 42:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/42/5) — I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
- [Psalms 18:44](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/18/44) — As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.
- [Psalms 150:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/150/5) — Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.
- [Isaiah 23:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/23/5) — As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.
- [Isaiah 66:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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,…
- [Jeremiah 37:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 J…
- [Jeremiah 50:43](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Hosea 7:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 congr…
- [Nahum 3:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 hat…
- [Habakkuk 3:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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; i…