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Lexicon :: Strong's G189 - akoē

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ἀκοή
Transliteration
akoē (Key)
Pronunciation
ak-o-ay'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:221,34

Strong’s Definitions

ἀκοή akoḗ, ak-o-ay'; from G191; hearing (the act, the sense or the thing heard):—audience, ear, fame, which ye heard, hearing, preached, report, rumor.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 24x

The KJV translates Strong's G189 in the following manner: hearing (10x), ears (4x), fame (3x), rumour (2x), report (2x), audience (1x), miscellaneous (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 24x
The KJV translates Strong's G189 in the following manner: hearing (10x), ears (4x), fame (3x), rumour (2x), report (2x), audience (1x), miscellaneous (2x).

  1. the sense of hearing

  2. the organ of hearing, the ear

  3. the thing heard

    1. instruction, namely oral

      1. of preaching the gospel

    2. hearsay, report or rumour

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἀκοή akoḗ, ak-o-ay'; from G191; hearing (the act, the sense or the thing heard):—audience, ear, fame, which ye heard, hearing, preached, report, rumor.
STRONGS G189:
ἀκοή, -ῆς, ἡ, (from an assumed perfect form ἤκοα, cf. ἀγορά above [but cf. Epic ἀκουή; Curtius, p. 555]);
1. hearing, by which one perceives sounds; sense of hearing 1 Corinthians 12:17; 2 Peter 2:8. Hebraistically, ἀκοῇ ἀκούειν by hearing to hear, i. e., to perceive by hearing, Matthew 13:14; Acts 28:26 (Isaiah 6:9); cf. Winers Grammar, § 44, 8 Rem. 3, p. 339; § 54, 3, p. 466; [Buttmann, 183f (159)].
2. the organ of hearing, the ear: Mark 7:35; Luke 7:1; 2 Timothy 4:3, 4; Acts 17:20; Hebrews 5:11.
3. thing heard;
a. instruction, namely oral; specifically, the preaching of the gospel, [A. V. text report]: John 12:38; Romans 10:16f (τίς ἐπίστευσε τῇ ἀκοῇ ἡμῶν; from Isaiah 53:1, Hebrew שְׁמוּעָה, which in 2 Samuel 4:4, etc., is rendered ἀγγελία); ἀκοὴ πίστεως preaching on the necessity of faith, (German Glaubenspredigt), Galatians 3:2, 5; λόγος ἀκοῆς equivalent to λ. ἀκουσθείς [cf. Winer's Grammar, 531 (494f)]: 1 Thessalonians 2:13; Hebrews 4:2.
b. hearsay, report, rumor; τινός, concerning anyone: Matthew 4:24; Matthew 14:1; Matthew 24:6; Mark 1:28; Mark 13:7. (Frequent in Greek writings.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

2 Samuel
4:4
Isaiah
6:9; 53:1
Matthew
4:24; 13:14; 14:1; 24:6
Mark
1:28; 7:35; 13:7
Luke
7:1
John
12:38
Acts
17:20; 28:26
Romans
10:16
1 Corinthians
12:17
Galatians
3:2; 3:5
1 Thessalonians
2:13
2 Timothy
4:3; 4:4
Hebrews
4:2; 5:11
2 Peter
2:8

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G189 matches the Greek ἀκοή (akoē),
which occurs 24 times in 22 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 4:24

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 4:24 - And the report of him went forth into all Syria: and they brought unto him all that were sick, holden with divers diseases and torments, possessed with demons, and epileptic, and palsied; and he healed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:14 - And unto them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which saith,
By hearing ye shall hear, and shall in no wise understand;
And seeing ye shall see, and shall in no wise perceive:

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 14:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:1 - At that season Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:6 - And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that ye be not troubled: for these things must needs come to pass; but the end is not yet.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 1:28

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:28 - And the report of him went out straightway everywhere into all the region of Galilee round about.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 7:35

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:35 - And his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 13:7 - And when ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars, be not troubled: these things must needs come to pass; but the end is not yet.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:1 - After he had ended all his sayings in the ears of the people, he entered into Capernaum.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 12:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:38 - that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake,
Lord, who hath believed our report?
And to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 17:20

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:20 - For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 28:26

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 28:26 - saying,
Go thou unto this people, and say,
By hearing ye shall hear, and shall in no wise understand;
And seeing ye shall see, and shall in no wise perceive:

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 10:16

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 10:16 - But they did not all hearken to the glad tidings. For Isaiah saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 10:17 - So belief cometh of hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 12:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:17 - If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:2 - This only would I learn from you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:5 - He therefore that supplieth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 2:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:13 - And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received from us the word of the message, even the word of God, ye accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ti 4:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 4:3 - For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine; but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ti 4:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 4:4 - and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside unto fables.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 4:2 - For indeed we have had good tidings preached unto us, even as also they: but the word of hearing did not profit them, because it was not united by faith with them that heard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 5:11 - Of whom we have many things to say, and hard of interpretation, seeing ye are become dull of hearing.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 2:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:8 - (for that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their lawless deeds):
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