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2 Kings 16:9
“And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H8085 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- [idiom] attentively, call (gather) together, [idiom] carefully, [idiom] certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, [idiom] diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear(-ken, tell), [idiom] indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim(-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, [idiom] surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth), witness.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- יִּשְׁמַ֤ע — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 1,165 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 3:8Genesis 3:10Genesis 3:17Genesis 4:23Genesis 11:7
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read שָׁמַע here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.