Word Summary
shemets: a whisper
Original Word: שֶׁמֶץTransliteration: shemets
Phonetic Spelling: (sheh'-mets)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a whisper
Meaning: an inkling
Strong's Concordance
a little
From an unused root meaning to emit a sound; an inkling -- a little.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H8102. shemets
שֵׁ֫מֶץ noun [masculine] whisper; — ׳שׁ absolute Job 4:12; construct ׳שׁ דָּבָד 26:14 a (mere) whisper of a word, something wholly inadequate.