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Exodus 3:18
“And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The Lord God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.” (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
- וְ — conjunction
- שָׁמְע֖וּ — verb Qal, sequential perfect, 3rd person, common, plural
- 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.