שָׁמַע (sha.ma)

They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves…

The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself.”

To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and have eaten from the tree, about which I commanded…

Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, for I have slain a…

Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his three hundred eighteen trained men, born in his…

Sarai said to Abram, “See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I will…

Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because…

As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him…

He said, “I will certainly return to you at about this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.”…

Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.”

God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all…

God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, “What troubles you,…

Abimelech said, “I don’t know who has done this thing. You didn’t tell me, and I didn’t hear of it until today.”

All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’”

“Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold…

He talked with them, saying, “If you agree that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to…

“No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of…

He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, “But if you will, please hear me. I will give the…

“My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury…

Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the children of…

When he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister,…

When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth to Yahweh.

because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.

Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,

Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.

His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.”

When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father,…

Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.

and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.

When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and…

She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, “Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me…

Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.” Therefore she called his name…

God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.

God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this…

Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held…

The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he…

But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone.”

All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all…

While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now…

He said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:

The man said, “They have left here, for I heard them say, ‘Let’s go to Dothan.’” Joseph went after his brothers, and…

Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, “Let’s not take his life.”

Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh.” His…

As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn’t listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

When he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”

When his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, “This is what your servant did to me,” his…

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you,…

He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may…

They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul,…

Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen?…

They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.

They prepared the present for Joseph’s coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there.

He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.

The report of it was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, “Joseph’s brothers have come.” It pleased Pharaoh well, and his…

Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father.