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Strong's #191: akouo (pronounced ak-oo'-o)

a primary verb; to hear (in various senses):--give (in the) audience (of), come (to the ears), (shall) hear(-er, -ken), be noised, be reported, understand.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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akouō

1) to be endowed with the faculty of hearing, not deaf

2) to hear

2b) to attend to, consider what is or has been said

2c) to understand, perceive the sense of what is said

3) to hear something

3a) to perceive by the ear what is announced in one' s presence

3b) to get by hearing learn

3c) a thing comes to one' s ears, to find out, learn

3d) to give ear to a teaching or a teacher

3e) to comprehend, to understand

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a root

Citing in TDNT: 1:216, 34




Usage:

This word is used 437 times:

Acts 19:10: "all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord"
Acts 19:26: "Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus,"
Acts 19:28: "And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying,"
Acts 21:12: "And when we heard these things, both we, and they of that place,"
Acts 21:20: "And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said"
Acts 21:22: "needs come together: for they will hear that thou art come."
Acts 22:1: "brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defense which I make now unto"
Acts 22:2: "(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them,"
Acts 22:7: "the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul,"
Acts 22:9: "were afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spake"
Acts 22:14: "see that Just One, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth."
Acts 22:15: "of what thou hast seen and heard."
Acts 22:22: "And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up"
Acts 22:26: "When the centurion heard that, he went and told the chief captain,"
Acts 23:16: "when Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, he went and entered"
Acts 24:4: "I be not further tedious unto thee, I pray thee that thou wouldest hear us"
Acts 24:22: "And when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of that way,"
Acts 24:24: "he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith"
Acts 25:22: "Festus, I would also hear the man myself."
Acts 25:22: "myself. Tomorrow, said he, thou shalt hear him."
Acts 26:3: "the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently."
Acts 26:14: "to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me,"
Acts 26:29: "thou, but also all that hear me this day, were"
Acts 28:15: "And from thence, when the brethren heard of us, they came to"
Acts 28:22: "But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for"
Acts 28:26: "and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and"
Acts 28:27: "is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes"
Acts 28:27: "lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand"
Acts 28:28: "Gentiles, and that they will hear"
Romans 10:14: "shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without"
Romans 10:14: "heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?"
Romans 10:18: "But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went"
Romans 11:8: "and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day."
Romans 15:21: "and they that have not heard shall understand."
1 Corinthians 2:9: "hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered"
1 Corinthians 5:1: " It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication"
1 Corinthians 11:18: "in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you;"
1 Corinthians 14:2: "unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries."
2 Corinthians 12:4: "into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful"
2 Corinthians 12:6: "which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me."
Galatians 1:13: "For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion,"
Galatians 1:23: "But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past"
Galatians 4:21: "under the law, do ye not hear the law?"
Ephesians 1:13: "whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the"
Ephesians 1:15: "Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in"
Ephesians 3:2: "If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given"
Ephesians 4:21: "If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as"
Ephesians 4:29: "that it may minister grace unto the hearers."
Philippians 1:27: "you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast"
Philippians 1:30: "me, and now hear to be in me."









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