shemua · report, news

What it means

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

What one hears said.

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 comes by word of mouth; news, good or bad.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• report ×14
• news ×7
• message ×3
• rumor ×2
• reports ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×6
• Ezekiel×4
• Daniel×1
• Obadiah×1

• 1 Samuel 2:24

  No, my sons; for the report that I hear the people of YHWH spreading is not good.

• 1 Samuel 4:19

  Now his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant, about to give birth. And she heard the news that the ark of Elohim had been taken and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, and she crouched down and gave birth, for her pains came over her.

• 2 Samuel 4:4

  Now Jonathan son of Saul had a son injured in the feet. He was five years old when the news of Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and his nurse picked him up and fled; and it happened, as she hurried to flee, that he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.

• 2 Samuel 13:30

  While they were on the way, the news came to David, saying, “Absalom has struck all the king’s sons, and not one of them is left.”

• 1 Kings 2:28

  And the news came to Joab — for Joab had inclined toward Adonijah, though toward Absalom he had not inclined — and Joab fled to the tent of YHWH and held fast to the horns of the altar.

• 1 Kings 10:7

  But I did not believe the words until I came and my eyes saw; and look, not even the half was told me; you have added wisdom and good to the report that I heard.

• 2 Kings 19:7

  Look, I am putting in him a spirit, and he will hear a rumor and return to his land; and I will make him fall by the sword in his land.’”

• 2 Chronicles 9:6

  But I did not believe their words until I came and my eyes saw; and look, not half of the greatness of your wisdom was told me; you have added to the report that I heard.

• Psalms 112:7

  Of bad news he will not be afraid; firm is his heart, trusting in YHWH.

• Proverbs 15:30

  The light of the eyes makes the heart glad; a good report fills the bones to the full.

• Proverbs 25:25

  Cold water to a weary soul, and good news from a land far away.

• Isaiah 28:9

  “Whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those weaned from milk, those taken from the breasts?

• Isaiah 28:19

  As often as it passes through, it will take you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be sheer terror to understand the message.”

• Isaiah 37:7

  Look, I am putting in him a spirit, and he will hear a rumor and return to his land; and I will make him fall by the sword in his land.’”

• Isaiah 53:1

  Who has believed our message? And the arm of YHWH, upon whom has it been revealed?

• Jeremiah 10:22

  The sound of a report! Look, it comes, and a great commotion from the land of the north, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a lair of jackals.

• Jeremiah 49:14

  A report I have heard from YHWH, and an envoy is sent among the nations: “Gather yourselves and come against her, and rise up for battle!”

• Jeremiah 49:23

  Concerning Damascus. Hamath is put to shame, and Arpad, for a bad report they have heard; they melt away; in the sea there is anxiety; it cannot be quiet.

• Jeremiah 51:46

  And lest your heart grow faint and you be afraid at the report that is heard in the land: the report comes in one year, and after it in another year the report, and violence in the land, and ruler against ruler.

• Ezekiel 7:26

  Calamity upon calamity will come, and report upon report will be; and they will seek a vision from the prophet, but instruction will perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

• Ezekiel 16:56

  And was not Sodom your sister a report in your mouth in the day of your pride,

• Ezekiel 21:7

  And it will be, when they say to you, ‘Why are you sighing?’ you will say, ‘Because of the news, for it is coming; and every heart will melt, and all hands will go limp, and every spirit will grow faint, and all knees will run with water. Look, it is coming, and it will happen, declares Adonai YHWH.’”

• Daniel 11:44

  But reports from the east and from the north will terrify him, and he will go out with great fury to destroy and to devote to destruction many.

• Obadiah 1:1

  The vision of Obadiah. Thus says Adonai YHWH concerning Edom: A report we have heard from YHWH, and an envoy has been sent among the nations: “Rise up, and let us rise against her for battle!”

And 3 more times.