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Exodus 18:1

“When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt;” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

שָׁמַעshâmaʻ · shaw-mah'
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
יִּשְׁמַ֞ע — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
Code HC/Vqw3ms
Usage: Occurs 1,165 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 3:8 Genesis 3:10 Genesis 3:17 Genesis 4:23 Genesis 11:7

Theological interpretation (AI)

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Verse 2

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.