שֵׁמַע
shêmaʻ · shay'-mah
something heard, i.e. a sound, rumor, announcement; abstractly, audience
Lexicon
Derivation: from H8085 (שָׁמַע);
something heard, i.e. a sound, rumor, announcement; abstractly, audience
- something heard, i.e. a sound, rumor, announcement
- abstractly, audience
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: bruit, fame, hear(-ing), loud, report, speech, tidings.
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › water, chaos, the mighty deep › to see and know
To consume, to destroy of water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to see and know.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שֵׁמַע above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
18 occurrences · 18 OT · 0 NT · 17 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- report2 · 11%
- the fame2 · 11%
- of the fame2 · 11%
- the tidings1 · 6%
- of thee by the hearing1 · 6%
- as soon as they hear1 · 6%
- him upon the loud1 · 6%
- as at the report1 · 6%
- at the report1 · 6%
- my fame1 · 6%
- tidings1 · 6%
- the report1 · 6%
- hath heard1 · 6%
- the bruit1 · 6%
- thy speech1 · 6%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.