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title: שֹׁמַע — report · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שֹׁמַע (8089), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: report. BDB 1906: n.m. report. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שֹׁמַע

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«שֹׁמַע» in the Tanakh dictionary: **report** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 4 times · **Key:** 8089 · **BDB:** שֹׁ֫מַע

### Glosses

of.him (2); of.it (1); the.report (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שֹׁמַע» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8089/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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.'

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