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Jeremiah 41:11
“But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
שָׁמַעshâmaʻ · shaw-mah'
H8085 · Hebrew
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
- יִּשְׁמַע֙ — 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.