shema · report, news

What it means

shema (שֵׁמַע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “report, news”.

What is heard said about someone.

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. What is heard about someone.
2. The act of hearing, without having seen: by hearsay.
3. A noise that reaches the ear forcefully.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• report ×9
• fame ×4
• news ×2
• hearing ×1
• hears ×1
• sounding ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×1
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×2
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×2
• Hosea×1
• Nahum×1
• Habakkuk×1

• Genesis 29:13

  When Laban heard the news of Jacob his sister’s son, he ran to meet him, embraced him, kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.

• Exodus 23:1

  You shall not spread a false report. Do not join hands with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

• Numbers 14:15

  If you kill this people as one man, then the nations who have heard of your fame will say,

• Deuteronomy 2:25

  This day I will begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you on the face of the peoples under all the heavens, who will hear the report of you and tremble and be in anguish because of you.”

• 1 Kings 10:1

  And the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, for the name of YHWH, and she came to test him with riddles.

• 2 Chronicles 9:1

  The queen of Sheba heard the fame of Solomon, and she came to test Solomon with riddles in Jerusalem, with a very great retinue and camels carrying spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones; she came to Solomon and spoke with him all that was on her heart.

• Job 28:22

  Abaddon and death say, ‘With our ears we have heard a report of it.’

• Job 42:5

  By the hearing of the ear I had heard of you, but now my eye has seen you.

• Psalms 18:44

  As soon as the ear hears, they listen to me; foreigners feign submission to me.

• Psalms 150:5

  Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with cymbals of acclamation.

• Isaiah 23:5

  When the report comes to Egypt, they will writhe at the report of Tyre.

• Isaiah 66:19

  And I will set among them a sign, and I will send from them those who escaped to the nations: Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, Tubal and Javan, the distant coastlands that have not heard my fame nor seen my glory; and they will declare my glory among the nations.

• Jeremiah 37:5

  And the army of Pharaoh had come out of Egypt, and the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard the news of them, and they withdrew from Jerusalem.

• Jeremiah 50:43

  The king of Babylon has heard the report of them, and his hands go limp; anguish has seized him, pain as of a woman giving birth.

• Hosea 7:12

  As they go, I will spread my net over them; like the birds of the heavens I will bring them down; I will discipline them according to the report to their community.

• Nahum 3:19

  There is no relief for your fracture; grievous is your wound. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you, for upon whom has not passed your evil continually?

• Habakkuk 3:2

  YHWH, I have heard the report of you; I have feared. YHWH, your work, in the midst of the years revive it; in the midst of the years make it known; in turmoil remember mercy.

And 1 more times.