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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, , (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 41 times in 39 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:26 - And He said, “If you will earnestly listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, Yahweh, am your healer.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:5 - ‘So now then, if you will indeed listen to My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My treasured possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:23 - “And if you indeed afflict him, and if he earnestly cries out to Me, I will surely hear his cry;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:1 -

“You shall not bear a false report; do not join your hand with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:22 - “But if you truly listen to his voice and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:13 -

“And it will be that, if you listen obediently to my commandments which I am commanding you today, to love Yahweh your God and to serve Him with all your heart and all your soul,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:22 - “For if you are careful to keep this entire commandment which I am commanding you to do, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all His ways, and to cling to Him,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:5 - if only you listen obediently to the voice of Yahweh your God, to be careful to do all this commandment which I am commanding you today.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:1 -

“Now it will be, if you diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I am commanding you today, Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:2 - “And all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you listen to the voice of Yahweh your God:
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:24 - “No, my sons; for the report is not good which I hear the people of Yahweh [fn]passing about.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:22 - And Samuel said,

“Has Yahweh as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices

As in obeying the voice of Yahweh?

Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,

And to heed than the fat of rams.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:30 -

Now it was while they were on the way that the report came to David, saying, “Absalom has struck down all the king’s sons, and not one of them is left.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:45 -

“Foreigners cower before me;

As soon as they hear, they obey me.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:23 - He was honored among the thirty, but he did not attain to the three. And David appointed him over his guard.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:28 -

Now the news came to Joab, for Joab had followed Adonijah, although he had not followed Absalom. And Joab fled to the tent of Yahweh and took hold of the horns of the altar.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:7 - “Nevertheless I did not believe those words, until I came and my eyes had seen it. And behold, the half was not declared to me. You exceed, in wisdom and prosperity, the report which I heard.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:6 - “Nevertheless I did not believe their words until I came and my eyes had seen it. And behold, the half of the greatness of your wisdom was not declared to me. You exceed the report which I heard.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:2 -

[fn]Listen closely to the thunder of His voice,

And the rumbling that goes out from His mouth.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:5 -

“I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear;

But now my eye sees You;

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:44 -

As soon as they hear, they obey me;

Foreigners [fn]cower before me.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:7 -

Mem

He will not fear an evil report;

Nun

His heart is set, trusting in Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:9 - He said, “Go, and tell this people:

‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand;

Keep on seeing, but do not know.’

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:7 -

How lovely on the mountains

Are the feet of him who proclaims good news,

Who [fn]announces [fn]peace

And proclaims good news of good things,

Who [fn]announces salvation,

And says to Zion, “Your God [fn]reigns!”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:1 -

Who has believed our report?

And to whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:24 -

We have heard the report of it;

Our hands are limp.

Distress has taken hold of us,

Pain as of a woman in childbirth.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:22 -

The sound of a report! Behold, it comes

A great quaking out of the land of the north

To make the cities of Judah

A desolation, a haunt of jackals.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:24 -

“But it will be, if you listen carefully to Me,” declares Yahweh, “to bring no load in through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but to keep the sabbath day holy by doing no work on it,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:18 -

“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving,

‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised,

Like an untrained calf;

Cause me to return that I may return,

For You are Yahweh my God.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:5 - Meanwhile, Pharaoh’s military force had come out from Egypt; and the Chaldeans who had been besieging Jerusalem heard the report about them. So they withdrew from Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:14 -

I have heard a message from Yahweh,

And an envoy is sent among the nations, saying,

“Gather yourselves together and come against her,

And rise up for battle!”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:23 -

Concerning Damascus.

“Hamath and Arpad are put to shame,

For they have heard a bad report;

They are melting away.

There is anxiety by the sea,

It cannot be quieted.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:43 -

“The king of Babylon has heard the report about them,

And his hands hang limp;

Distress has taken hold of him,

Agony like a woman in childbirth.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:56 - “As the name of your sister Sodom was not heard in your mouth in your day of lofty pride,
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:44 - “But reports from the East and from the North will dismay him, and he will go forth with great wrath to destroy and [fn]devote many to destruction.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:12 -

When they go, I will spread My net over them;

I will bring them down like the birds of the sky.

I will chastise them in accordance with the report to their congregation.

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:1 -

The vision of Obadiah.

Thus says Lord [fn]Yahweh concerning Edom

We have heard a report from Yahweh,

And an envoy has been sent among the nations saying,

“Arise! And let us arise against her for battle”—

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:12 -

Thus says Yahweh,

“Though they are at full strength and likewise many,

Even so, they will be cut off and pass away.

Though I have afflicted you,

I will afflict you no longer.

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:2 -

O Yahweh, I have heard [fn]the report about You, and [fn]I fear.

O Yahweh, revive Your work in the midst of the years;

In the midst of the years make it known;

In rage remember compassion.

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