Report
שֹׁ֫מַעStrong’s H8089shoma (sho-ma)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shoma is the Hebrew word usually translated “report of him” and “report of it”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“So the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was noised throughout all the country.”
Meaning
- Report, rumour, news, fame
How it's translated
- report of him 2
- and report of him 1
- report of it 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 2
- Esther 1
- Jeremiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 9:9And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of the LORD thy God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,
- Esther 9:4For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces: for this man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.
- Jeremiah 6:24We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
Hebrew dictionary
שֹׁ֫מַע shoma · report
report, rumour, news, fame Another spelling of she.ma (שֵׁ֫מַע "report" H8088B)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “report” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
REPORT, verb transitive
[Latin reporto, to carry back; re and porto, to bear.]
- To bear or bring back an answer, or to relate what has been discovered by a person sent to examine, explore or investigate; as, a messenger reports to his employer what he has seen or ascertained.
- To give an account of; to relate; to tell.“They reported his good deeds before me” Nehemiah 6:19
- To tell or relate from one to another; to circulate publicly, as a story; as in the common phrase, it is reported.“It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel” Nehemiah 6:6
- To give an official account or statement; as, the secretary of the treasury reports to congress annually the amount of revenue and expenditure.
All definitions and other forms of “report”
- To give an account or statement of cases and decisions in a court of law or chancery.
- To return, as sound; to give back.
REPORT, verb intransitive
To make a statement of facts. The committee will report at twelve o'clock.
REPORT, noun
- An account returned; a statement or relation of facts given in reply to inquiry, or by a person authorized to examine and make return to his employer.
- Rumor; common fame; story circulated. report though often originating in fact, soon becomes incorrect, and is seldom deserving of credit.
- Repute; public character; as evil report and good report 2 Corinthians 6:8“Cornelius was of good report among the Jews” Acts 10:22
- Account; story; relation.“It was a true report that I heard in my own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom” 1 Kings 10:6
- Sound; noise; as the report of a pistol or cannon.
- An account or statement of a judicial opinion or decision, or of a case argued and determined in a court of law, chancery, etc.
- An official statement of facts, verbal or written; particularly, a statement in writing of proceedings and facts exhibited by an officer to his superiors; as the reports of the heads of departments to congress, of a master in chancery to the court, of committees to a legislative body and the like.
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.