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Lexicon :: Strong's G3775 - ous

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οὖς
Transliteration
ous (Key)
Pronunciation
ooce
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Apparently a primary word
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 5:543,744

Strong’s Definitions

οὖς oûs, ooce; apparently a primary word; the ear (physically or mentally):—ear.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x

The KJV translates Strong's G3775 in the following manner: ear (37x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x
The KJV translates Strong's G3775 in the following manner: ear (37x).

  1. the ear

  2. metaph. the faculty of perceiving with the mind, the faculty of understanding and knowing

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
οὖς oûs, ooce; apparently a primary word; the ear (physically or mentally):—ear.
STRONGS G3775:
οὖς, genitive ὠτός, plural ὦτα, dative ὦσιν, τό (cf. Latinauris,ausculto, audio, etc.; akin to ἀΐω, αἰσθάνομαι; cf. Curtius, § 619; Vanicek, p. 67); from Homer down; Hebrew אֹזֶן; the ear;
1. properly: Matthew 13:16; Mark 7:33; Luke 22:50; 1 Corinthians 2:9; 1 Corinthians 12:16; ὦτα τίνος εἰς δέησιν, to hear supplication, 1 Peter 3:12; ἡ γραφή πληροῦται ἐν τοῖς ὠσί τίνος, while present and hearing, Luke 4:21 (Baruch 1:3f); those unwilling to hear a thing are said συνέχειν (which see 2 a.) τά ὦτα, to stop their ears, Acts 7:57; ἠκούσθη τί εἰς τά ὦτα τίνος, something was heard by, came to the knowledge of (A. V. came to the ears of) one, Acts 11:22; likewise ἐισέρχεσθαι, James 5:4; γίνεσθαι, to come unto the ears of one, Luke 1:44; ἀκούειν εἰς τό οὖς, to hear (A. V. in the ear i. e.) in familiar converse, privately, Matthew 10:27 (εἰς οὖς often so in classical Greek; cf. Passow (Liddell and Scott), under the word, 1); also πρός τό οὖς λαλεῖν, Luke 12:3.
2. metaphorically equivalent to: the faculty of perceiving with the mind, the faculty of understanding and knowing: Matthew 13:16; ὁ ἔχων (or εἰ τίς ἔχει) ὦτα (or οὖς, in Rev.) (sometimes (especially in Mark and Luke) with ἀκούειν added; cf. Buttmann, § 140, 3) ἀκουέτω, whoever has the faculty of attending and understanding, let him use it, Matthew 11:15; Matthew 13:9, 43; Mark 4:9, 23; Mark 7:16 (T WH omit; Tr brackets the verse); Luke 8:8; Luke 14:35 (34); Revelation 2:7, 11, 17, 29; Revelation 3:6, 13, 22; Revelation 13:9; τοῖς ὠσί βαρέως ἀκούειν, to be slow to understand or obey (A. V. their ears are dull of hearing), Matthew 13:15; Acts 28:27 (from Isaiah 6:10); ὦτα ἔχοντες οὐκ ἀκούετε, Mark 8:18; ὦτα τοῦ μή ἀκούειν, (ears that they should not hear; cf. Buttmann, 267 (230)), Romans 11:8; θέσθε τούς λόγους τούτους εἰς τά ὦτα (A. V. let these words sink into your ears i. e.) take them into your memory and hold them there, Luke 9:44; ἀπερίτμητος τοῖς ὦσιν (see ἀπερίτμητος), Acts 7:51.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Isaiah
6:10
Matthew
10:27; 11:15; 13:9; 13:15; 13:16; 13:16; 13:43
Mark
4:9; 4:23; 7:16; 7:33; 8:18
Luke
1:44; 4:21; 8:8; 9:44; 12:3; 14:35; 22:50
Acts
7:51; 7:57; 11:22; 28:27
Romans
11:8
1 Corinthians
2:9; 12:16
James
5:4
1 Peter
3:12
Revelation
2:7; 2:11; 2:17; 2:29; 3:6; 3:13; 3:22; 13:9

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3775 matches the Greek οὖς (ous),
which occurs 36 times in 34 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 10:27

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:27 - What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the roofs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:15 - Whoever has ears, let them hear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:9 - Whoever has ears, let them hear.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:15 - For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:16

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:16 - But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:43

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:43 - Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears, let them hear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:9 - Then Jesus said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:23 - If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:33 - After he took him aside, away from the crowd, Jesus put his fingers into the man’s ears. Then he spit and touched the man’s tongue.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:18 - Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? And don’t you remember?

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 1:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:44 - As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:21 - He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 8:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:8 - Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up and yielded a crop, a hundred times more than was sown.” When he said this, he called out, “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:44 - “Listen carefully to what I am about to tell you: The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:3 - What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:35 - It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile; it is thrown out. “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 22:50

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:50 - And one of them struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:51

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:51 - “You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: You always resist the Holy Spirit!

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:57

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:57 - At this they covered their ears and, yelling at the top of their voices, they all rushed at him,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 11:22

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:22 - News of this reached the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 28:27

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 28:27 - For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:8 - as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see and ears that could not hear, to this very day.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 2:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 2:9 - However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived”[fn]— the things God has prepared for those who love him—

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 12:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:16 - And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:4 - Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 3:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 3:12 - For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:7 - Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:11 - Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who is victorious will not be hurt at all by the second death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:17 - Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 2:29

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:29 - Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 3:6 - Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 3:13 - Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 3:22

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 3:22 - Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 13:9 - Whoever has ears, let them hear.
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