Whisper
שֵׁ֫מֶץStrong’s H8102shemets (she-mets)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shemets is the Hebrew word usually translated “whisper” and “whisper of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.”
Meaning
- Whisper, little
How it's translated
- a whisper 1
- a whisper of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
שֵׁ֫מֶץ shemets · whisper
whisper, little
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “whisper” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WHISPER, verb intransitive
[Latin The word seems by its sound to be an onomatopy, as it expresses a sibilant sound or breathing.]
- To speak with a low hissing or sibilant voice.
- To speak with suspicion or timorous caution.
- To plot secretly; to devise in mischief.“All that hate me whisper together against me” Psalms 41:7
All definitions and other forms of “whisper”
WHISPER, verb transitive
- To address in a low voice.
- To utter in a low sibilant voice.
- To prompt secretly; as, the came to whisper Woolsey.
WHISPER, noun
- A low soft sibilant voice; or words uttered with such a voice.
- A cautious or timorous speech.
- A hissing or buzzing sound.
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.