Sound
שֶׁ֫מַעStrong’s H8088shema (she-ma)
Appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shema is the Hebrew word usually translated “report your”, “report of” and “hearing of”. It appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister’s son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.”
Meaning
- Sound
- Report, a hearing
How it's translated
- report your 4
- report of 3
- to hearing of 2
- report their 2
- a report of 1
- report its 1
- sound 1
- a report 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
- Psalms 2
- Isaiah 2
- Jeremiah 2
- Genesis 1
- Exodus 1
13 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 23:1Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
- Numbers 14:15Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
- Deuteronomy 2:25This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.
- 1 Kings 10:1And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.
- 2 Chronicles 9:1And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
- Job 28:22Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
Hebrew dictionary
שֶׁ֫מַע shema · sound
sound
שֵׁ֫מַע shema · report
report, a hearing Also means: sho.ma (שֹׁ֫מַע "report" H8089)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sound” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SOUND, adjective
[Latin sanus.]
- Entire; unbroken; not shaky, split or defective; as sound timber.
- Undecayed; whole; perfect, or not defective; as sound fruit; a sound apple or melon.
- Unbroken; not bruised or defective; not lacerated or decayed; as a sound limb.
- Not carious; not decaying; as a sound tooth.
All definitions and other forms of “sound”
- Not broken or decayed; not defective; as a sound ship.
- Whole; entire; unhurt; unmutilated; as a sound body.
- Healthy; not diseased; not being in a morbid state; having all the organs complete and in perfect action; as a sound body; sound health; a sound constitution; a sound man; a sound horse.
- Founded in truth; firm; strong; valid; solid; that cannot be overthrown or refuted; as sound reasoning; a sound argument; a sound objection; sound doctrine; sound principles.
- Right; correct; well founded; free form error; orthodox. Psalms 119:80“II Tim 1. Let my heart be sound in thy statutes” Psalms 119:80
- Heavy; laid on with force; as sound strokes; a sound beating.
- Founded in right and law; legal; valid; not defective; that cannot be overthrown; as a sound title to land; sound justice.
- Fast; profound; undisturbed; as sound sleep.
- Perfect, as intellect; not broken or defective; not enfeebled by age or accident; not wild or wandering; not deranged; as a sound mind; a sound understanding or reason.
SOUND, adverb
Soundly; heartily. So sound he slept that nought might him awake.
SOUND, noun
The air bladder of a fish.
SOUND, noun
[Latin natatio. can this name be given to a narrow sea because wild beasts were accustomed to pass it by swimming, like Bosporus; or is the word from the root of sound whole, denoting a stretch, or narrowness, from stretching, like straight?]
A narrow passage of water, or a strait between the main land and an isle; or a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean; as the sound which connect the Baltic with the ocean, between Denmark and Sweden; the sound that separates Long Island from the main land of New York and Connecticut.
SOUND, noun
[See the following verb.]
An instrument which surgeons introduce into the bladder, in order to discover whether there is a stone in the viscus or not.
SOUND, verb transitive
[Latin sonus, Eng. sound the primary sense of which is to stretch or reach.]
- To try, as the depth of water and the quality of the ground, by sinking a plummet or lead, attached to a line on which are marked the number of fathoms.
- To introduce a sound into the bladder of a patient, in order to ascertain whether a stone is there or not.
- To try; to examine; to discover or endeavor to discover that which lies concealed in another's breast; to search out the intention, opinion, will or desires.
SOUND, verb intransitive
To use the line and lead in searching the depth of water. The shipmen sounded, and found it twenty fathoms.
SOUND, noun
The cuttle fish.
SOUND, noun
[Latin sonus, from sonom to sound sing, rattle, beat, etc. This may be a dialectical variation of Latin tonus, tono, which seems to be allied to Latin teneo.]
- Noise; report; the object of hearing; that which strikes the ear; or more philosophically, an impression of the effect of an impression made on the organs of hearing by an impulse or vibration of the air, caused by a collision of bodies or by other means; as the sound of a trumpet or drum; the sound of a human voice; a horrid sound; a charming sound; a sharp sound; a high sound
- A vibration of air caused by a collision of bodies or other means, sufficient to affect the auditory nerves when perfect.
- Noise without signification; empty noise; noise and nothing else.
SOUND, verb intransitive
- To make a noise; to utter a voice; to make an impulse of the air that shall strike the organs of hearing with a particular effect.
- To exhibit by sound or likeness of sound This relation sounds rather like a fiction that a truth.
- To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published.
SOUND, verb transitive
- To cause to make a noise; as, to sound a trumpet or a horn.
- To utter audibly; as, to sound a note with the voice.
- To play on; as, to sound an instrument.
- To order or direct by a sound; as, to sound a retreat.
- To celebrate or honor by sounds; to cause to reported; as, to sound one's praise.
- To celebrate or honor by sounds; to cause to be reported; as, to sound one's praise.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.