שֹׁמַע
Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8089
Meaning
OpenScriptures lexical index
report tree →
Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906
שֹׁ֫מַע: n.m. report tree →
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.
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)
Glosses
MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of him (2); of it (1); the report (1).
In the verses
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.
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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