kashav · attentive

What it means

kashav (קַשָּׁב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “attentive”.

Listening, heeding carefully. Said of God's ears toward prayer.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Listening carefully.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Where it appears

• 2 Chronicles×2
• Nehemiah×2
• Psalms×1

• 2 Chronicles 6:40

  Now, my Elohim, please let your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayer of this place.

• 2 Chronicles 7:15

  Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer of this place.

• Nehemiah 1:6

  let your ear, I beg you, be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer of your servant, which I am praying before you today, day and night, for the sons of Israel your servants, and confessing the sins of the sons of Israel, which we have sinned against you; and I and my father’s house have sinned.

• Nehemiah 1:11

  I beg you, Adonai, let your ear, I beg you, be attentive to the prayer of your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name; and give success, I beg you, to your servant today, and grant him mercy before this man.” Now I was cupbearer to the king.

• Psalms 130:2

  Adonai, hear my voice; let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.