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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.)
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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 his fame went out into the whole of Syria, and they brought to him all that were ill, suffering under various diseases and pains, and those possessed by demons, and lunatics, and paralytics; and he healed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:14 - and in them is filled up the prophecy of Esaias, which says, Hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand, and beholding ye shall behold and not see;

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 14:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:1 - At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:6 - But ye will hear of wars and rumours of wars. See that ye be not disturbed; for all these things must take place, but it is not yet the end.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 1:28

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:28 - And his fame went out straightway into the whole region of Galilee around.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 7:35

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:35 - And immediately his ears were opened, and the band of his tongue was loosed and he spoke right.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 13:7 - But when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be not disturbed, for this must happen, but the end is not yet.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:1 - And when he had completed all his words in the hearing 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 the prophet Esaias which he said might be fulfilled, Lord, who has believed our report? and to whom has 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 wish therefore to know what these things may mean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 28:26

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 28:26 - saying, Go to this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear and not understand, and seeing ye shall see and not perceive.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 10:16

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 10:16 - But they have not all obeyed the glad tidings. For Esaias says, Lord, who has believed our report?

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 10:17 - So faith then is by a report, but the report by God's word.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 12:17

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:2 - This only I wish to learn of you, Have ye received the Spirit on the principle of works of law, or of the report of faith?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:5 - He therefore who ministers to you the Spirit, and works miracles among you, is it on the principle of works of law, or of the report of faith?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 2:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:13 - And for this cause we also give thanks to God unceasingly that, having received the word of the report of God by us, ye accepted, not men's word, but, even as it is truly, God's word, which also works in you who believe.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ti 4:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 4:3 - For the time shall be when they will not bear sound teaching; but according to their own lusts will heap up to themselves teachers, having an itching ear;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ti 4:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 4:4 - and they will turn away their ear from the truth, and will have turned aside to fables.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 4:2 - For indeed we have had glad tidings presented to us, even as they also; but the word of the report did not profit *them*, not being mixed with faith in those who heard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 5:11 - Concerning whom we have much to say, and hard to be interpreted in speaking of it, since ye are become dull in hearing.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 2:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:8 - (for the righteous man through seeing and hearing, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul day after day with their lawless works,)
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