קָשַׁב

1 Samuel 15:22 לְהַקְשִׁ֖יב to pay attention

But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams.

Here: 'To incline the ear, to listen closely.' This verb is a poetic partner of shama' (Isa 28:23; Jer 6:10). It stresses alert, deliberate attention, the opposite of the selective hearing Saul showed.

2 Chronicles 20:15 הַקְשִׁ֤יבוּ pay attention

And he said, “Listen, all you people of Judah and Jerusalem! Listen, King Jehoshaphat! This is what the LORD says: ‘Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army, for the battle does not belong to you, but to God.

Here: A plural command: 'Prick up your ears! Attend!' It is a summons to stop and take in an announcement, not just to hear sound. It fits a crowd that has been fasting and praying and is waiting for an answer.

2 Chronicles 33:10 הִקְשִֽׁיבוּ׃ they paid attention

And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they did not listen.

Here: This verb means to prick up the ears, attend closely, and take a message seriously enough to act on it. The plural 'they' covers both the king and the people. The words reached them. They refused to attend to them.

Nehemiah 9:34 הִקְשִׁ֙יבוּ֙ they paid attention

Our kings and leaders and priests and fathers did not obey Your law or listen to Your commandments and warnings that You gave them.

Job 13:6 הַקְשִֽׁיבוּ׃ pay attention to

Hear now my argument, and listen to the plea of my lips.

Job 33:31 הַקְשֵׁ֖ב pay attention

Pay attention, Job, and listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.

Psalm 5:2 הַקְשִׁ֤יבָה׀ pay attention !

Attend to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to You I pray.

Here: An imperative in a lengthened form (the extra -āh ending), which often adds urgency or a note of 'please'. The verb means more than hearing a noise. It means turning your attention to something and taking it in. This is the third verb of hearing in a row, after 'give ear' and 'consider' in verse 1.

Psalm 10:17 תַּקְשִׁ֥יב you cause to pay attention

You have heard, O LORD, the desire of the humble; You will strengthen their hearts. You will incline Your ear,

Here: Attentive, alert listening, like a judge hearing a case. Grammatically the subject is most naturally 'your ear' (feminine): 'your ear listens closely'. The form can also be read as 'you make your ear attend'.

Psalm 17:1 הַקְשִׁ֥יבָה pay attention to !

A prayer of David. Hear, O LORD, my righteous plea; listen to my cry. Give ear to my prayer—it comes from lips free of deceit.

Here: 'Attend!', meaning listen carefully. This is the second of three verbs of hearing piled up for urgency. Like the first, it is a lengthened command.

Psalm 55:2 הַקְשִׁ֣יבָה pay attention !

Attend to me and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and distraught

Psalm 61:1 הַ֝קְשִׁ֗יבָה pay attention to !

For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. Of David. Hear my cry, O God; attend to my prayer.

Here: Another lengthened command: 'Give close attention!' The verb is used for leaning in with your ear and attending carefully, so it goes a step beyond 'hear' in the first line.

Psalm 66:19 הִ֝קְשִׁ֗יב he has paid attention

But God has surely heard; He has attended to the sound of my prayer.

Here: A stronger word for listening: paying close, deliberate attention, as if leaning in to catch every word. It sits in the second half of the line to echo and intensify 'heard', a pairing common in the Psalms.

Psalm 86:6 וְ֝הַקְשִׁ֗יבָה and pay attention !

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and attend to my plea for mercy.

Here: "And attend!" This verb is stronger than plain hearing. It means focused, alert listening that takes in what is said. It carries the same earnest extra ending as the first verb and repeats the first line's request with more force.

Psalm 142:6 הַקְשִׁ֤יבָה׀ pay attention !

Listen to my cry, for I am brought quite low. Rescue me from my pursuers, for they are too strong for me.

Here: A command form with an extra -â ending that makes the plea more urgent and personal: "please, really listen!" It asks for more than hearing; it asks God to turn his attention to the speaker and stay on him.

Proverbs 1:24 מַקְשִֽׁיב׃ [was] an attentive [one]

Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,

Here: 'One paying attention.' The word describes someone who pricks up his ears and listens closely. The failure is a failure to attend. It does not say anyone failed to grab her hand. The speech also moves from 'you refused' to the wider 'no one at all'.

Proverbs 2:2 לְהַקְשִׁ֣יב to make attend

if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding,

Here: 'By making attentive' or 'so as to make attentive'. The verb means to listen closely and take note, not just to hear sounds. In form it is an infinitive (a verbal noun, 'to do'), so it hangs on verse 1. It describes how, or with what result, the son takes in his father's words.

Proverbs 4:1 וְ֝הַקְשִׁ֗יבוּ and be attentive

Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction; pay attention and gain understanding.

Here: 'And pay close attention'. The verb pictures pricking up the ears, attention held on purpose. It intensifies 'hear' in the parallel line.

Proverbs 4:20 הַקְשִׁ֑יבָה be attentive !

My son, pay attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.

Here: A command to listen hard: be alert and keep your hearing fixed on what is said. The verb has an added -ah ending that makes the command more urgent or insistent, something like "do pay attention!"

Proverbs 5:1 הַקְשִׁ֑יבָה be attentive !

My son, pay attention to my wisdom; incline your ear to my insight,

Here: A command, in a lengthened form that adds urgency: "Pay close attention!" The verb means alert, concentrated listening, the opposite of half-hearing. It is the kind of listening that leads to doing what is heard.

Proverbs 7:24 וְ֝הַקְשִׁ֗יבוּ and be attentive

Now, my sons, listen to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 17:4 מַקְשִׁ֣יב [is] paying attention

A wicked man listens to evil lips; a liar gives ear to a destructive tongue.

Proverbs 29:12 מַקְשִׁ֣יב [who] pays attention

If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials will be wicked.

Here: The causative form of the verb, used for 'pricking up the ear' and listening on purpose. The participle describes a habit: a ruler who keeps lending his ear to falsehood and is open to it. He doesn't just overhear a lie now and then.

Song of Songs 8:13 מַקְשִׁיבִ֥ים [are] listening

You who dwell in the gardens, my companions are listening for your voice. Let me hear it!

Isaiah 10:30 הַקְשִׁ֥יבִי pay attention

Cry aloud, O Daughter of Gallim! Listen, O Laishah! O wretched Anathoth!

Isaiah 21:7 וְהִקְשִׁ֥יב and he will pay attention

When he sees chariots with teams of horsemen, riders on donkeys, riders on camels, he must be alert, fully alert.”

Isaiah 28:23 הַקְשִׁ֥יבוּ pay attention

Listen and hear my voice. Pay attention and hear what I say.

Isaiah 32:3 תִּקְשַֽׁבְנָה׃ they will pay attention

Then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, and the ears of those who hear will listen.

Here: To listen closely, prick up the ears, give full attention. Stronger than plain 'hear': the ears will actually take in what is said. It sits last, mirroring the verb that opens the verse.

Isaiah 34:1 הַקְשִׁ֑יבוּ pay attention

Come near, O nations, to listen; pay attention, O peoples. Let the earth hear, and all that fills it, the world and all that springs from it.

Here: A command: 'Listen closely!' The verb suggests pricking up the ears and attending carefully. It is stronger than plain hearing and matches the formal tone of a court summons.

Isaiah 42:23 יַקְשִׁ֥ב will he pay attention?

Who among you will pay attention to this? Who will listen and obey hereafter?

Isaiah 48:18 הִקְשַׁ֖בְתָּ you had paid attention

If only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea.

Here: 'You had paid attention.' The verb means to turn your ear and listen closely. In Hebrew, really listening to a command includes doing it. It is addressed to 'you' (masculine singular), meaning Israel/Jacob as one collective person.

Isaiah 49:1 וְהַקְשִׁ֥יבוּ and pay attention

Listen to Me, O islands; pay attention, O distant peoples: The LORD called Me from the womb; from the body of My mother He named Me.

Here: 'And give close attention.' This is a stronger, more deliberate word than 'hear', meaning to prick up the ears. The pairing hear / pay attention is the standard opening of a solemn speech (compare Isa 28:23; Deut 32:1).

Isaiah 51:4 הַקְשִׁ֤יבוּ pay attention

Pay attention to Me, My people, and listen to Me, My nation; for a law will go out from Me, and My justice will become a light to the nations; I will bring it about quickly.

Here: A plural command: tune your ears and attend. It is the word for straining to catch what is said, and it calls the audience to stop and take in a royal announcement.

Jeremiah 6:10 לְהַקְשִׁ֑יב to pay attention

To whom can I give this warning? Who will listen to me? Look, their ears are closed, so they cannot hear. See, the word of the LORD has become offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.

Here: 'To pay attention.' It describes active, alert listening, like pricking up your ears. It is a stronger word than simply hearing.

Jeremiah 6:17 הַקְשִׁ֖יבוּ נַקְשִֽׁיב׃ pay attention, we will pay attention

I appointed watchmen over you and said, ‘Listen for the sound of the ram’s horn.’ But they answered, ‘We will not listen!’

Here: A command to all the people: 'prick up your ears, heed!' There is no 'saying' in the Hebrew. The command bursts in directly, as if the lookout's shout is heard on the spot.

Jeremiah 6:19 הִקְשִׁ֔יבוּ they have paid attention

Hear, O earth! I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their own schemes, because they have paid no attention to My word and have rejected My instruction.

Here: To turn the ear and attend closely. It picks up 6:10 ('their ear is uncircumcised, they cannot pay attention') and 6:17 ('Pay attention to the trumpet!' But they said, 'We will not pay attention').

Jeremiah 8:6 הִקְשַׁ֤בְתִּי I have paid attention

I have listened and heard; they do not speak what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, asking, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone has pursued his own course like a horse charging into battle.

Here: YHWH is the speaker. He has leaned in and listened closely, the way someone strains to catch a word. The verse opens with God waiting for a single sentence of remorse.

Jeremiah 18:18 נַקְשִׁ֖יבָה we pay attention

Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”

Here: 'Give heed, listen closely'. They decide on purpose to tune him out. The very next verse turns on this word: Jeremiah prays, 'Pay attention (haqshivah) to me, O LORD' (18:19).

Jeremiah 18:19 הַקְשִׁ֥יבָה be attentive !

Attend to me, O LORD. Hear what my accusers are saying!

Here: An imperative with an added ending (-ah) that makes the plea more urgent or courteous: "do listen!" It deliberately echoes v. 18, where the plotters said "let us not pay attention (naqshivah) to any of his words." They refuse to listen to Jeremiah; he asks God to listen.

Jeremiah 23:18 הִקְשִׁ֥יב has he paid attention to

But which of them has stood in the council of the LORD to see and hear His word? Who has given heed to His word and obeyed it?

Here: An intensive word for listening: pricking up the ears and attending closely. It suggests the alert courtier who catches every word of the king.

Daniel 9:19 הַֽקֲשִׁ֥יבָה be attentive !

O Lord, listen! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, hear and act! For Your sake, O my God, do not delay, because Your city and Your people bear Your name.”

Here: 'Give close attention!' It is the same urgent form found in the Psalms (Ps 5:2). It asks God to turn his full attention to the matter.

Hosea 5:1 וְהַקְשִׁ֣יבוּ׀ and pay attention

“Hear this, O priests! Take heed, O house of Israel! Give ear, O royal house! For this judgment is against you because you have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread out on Tabor.

Here: 'And pay attention!' The word means listening closely and alertly, and it is often used for heeding a warning or instruction.

Micah 1:2 הַקְשִׁ֖יבִי pay attention

Hear, O peoples, all of you; listen, O earth, and everyone in it! May the Lord GOD bear witness against you, the Lord from His holy temple.

Here: A singular command in the feminine form because 'earth' is a feminine noun: 'pay close attention, prick up your ears'. It is a stronger word than 'hear', and it pairs with it in the poetic doubling typical of formal summonses (Isa 1:2; Deut 32:1).

Zechariah 1:4 הִקְשִׁ֥יבוּ they paid attention

Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Turn now from your evil ways and deeds.’ But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, declares the LORD.

Here: 'They did not pay attention.' It means pricking up the ears and attending closely. Paired with 'hear', it says they refused to listen at all, let alone respond.

Zechariah 7:11 לְהַקְשִׁ֔יב to pay attention

But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.

Here: "To give heed." The word means pricking up the ears and paying close attention, the first step toward obeying. It picks up Zechariah 1:4, where the ancestors "did not hear or give heed (hiqshiv) to me."

Malachi 3:16 וַיַּקְשֵׁ֤ב and he paid attention

At that time those who feared the LORD spoke with one another, and the LORD listened and heard them. So a scroll of remembrance was written before Him regarding those who feared the LORD and honored His name.

Here: Yahweh "bent his ear": he gave close, deliberate attention. It is a picture of God leaning in to listen to the conversation.