שֹׁמַע
shoma · report, fame
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8089 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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shoma (שֹׁמַע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “report, fame”.
What is heard said about someone.
How to say it
sho·ma
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
- What is said of someone, passed from mouth to mouth.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- fame ×3
- report of it ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Joshua 6:27
So YHWH was with Joshua, and his fame was in all the land.
- Joshua 9:9
They said to him, “From a land very far away your servants have come because of the name of YHWH your Elohim; for we have heard of his fame and all that he did in Egypt,
- Esther 9:4
For Mordecai was great in the house of the king, and his fame was going through all the provinces; for the man Mordecai kept growing greater.
- Jeremiah 6:24
We have heard the report of it; our hands go limp; anguish has seized us, pain as of a woman giving birth.