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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 41 times in 39 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 15:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:26 - And He said, “If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the LORD 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, the LORD, am your healer.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 19:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:5 - ‘Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My [fn]own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:23 - “If you afflict him at all, and if he does cry out to Me, I will surely hear his cry;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:1

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:22

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:13 - “It shall come about, if you listen obediently to my commandments which I am commanding you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and all your soul,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:22 - “For if you are careful to keep all this commandment which I am commanding you to do, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and hold fast to Him,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:5 - if only you listen obediently to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all this commandment which I am commanding you today.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:1 - “Now it shall be, if you diligently [fn]obey the LORD your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:2 - “All these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you [fn]obey the LORD your God:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:24 - “No, my sons; for the report is not good which I hear [fn]the LORD’S people circulating.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:22 - Samuel said,
“Has the LORD as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices
As in obeying the voice of the LORD?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
And to heed than the fat of rams.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:30

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.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 22:45

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:45 - “Foreigners pretend obedience to me;
As soon as they hear, they obey me.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 23:23

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:28

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 the LORD and took hold of the horns of the altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 10:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:7 - “Nevertheless I did not believe the [fn]reports, until I came and my eyes had seen it. And behold, the half was not told me. You exceed in wisdom and prosperity the report which I heard.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:6 - “Nevertheless I did not believe their reports until I came and my eyes had seen it. And behold, the half of the greatness of your wisdom was not told me. You surpass the report that I heard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 37:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:2 - “Listen closely to the thunder of His voice,
And the rumbling that goes out from His mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 42:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:5 - “I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear;
But now my eye sees You;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 18:44

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:44 - As soon as they hear, they obey me;
Foreigners [fn]submit to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 112:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:7 - He will not fear evil tidings;
His heart is steadfast, trusting in the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:9 - He said, “Go, and tell this people:
‘Keep on listening, but do not perceive;
Keep on looking, but do not understand.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 52:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:7 - How lovely on the mountains
Are the feet of him who brings good news,
Who announces [fn]peace
And brings good news of [fn]happiness,
Who announces salvation,
And says to Zion, “Your God [fn]reigns!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 53:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:1 - Who has believed our message?
And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:24 - We have heard the report of it;
Our hands are limp.
Anguish has seized us,
Pain as of a woman in childbirth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:22 - The sound of a report! Behold, it comes—
A great commotion out of the land of the north—
To make the cities of Judah
A desolation, a haunt of jackals.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 17:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:24 - “But it will come about, if you listen attentively to Me,” declares the LORD, “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,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:18 - “I have surely heard Ephraim grieving,
‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised,
Like an untrained calf;
Bring me back that I may be restored,
For You are the LORD my God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 37:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:5 - Meanwhile, Pharaoh’s army had set out from Egypt; and when the Chaldeans who had been besieging Jerusalem heard the report about them, they lifted the siege from Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:14 - I have heard a message from the LORD,
And an envoy is sent among the nations, saying,
“Gather yourselves together and come against her,
And rise up for battle!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:23 - Concerning Damascus.
“Hamath and Arpad are put to shame,
For they have heard bad news;
They are disheartened.
There is anxiety by the sea,
It cannot be calmed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:43 - “The king of Babylon has heard the report about them,
And his hands hang limp;
Distress has gripped him,
Agony like a woman in childbirth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:56

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:56 - “As the name of your sister Sodom was not heard from your lips in your day of pride,

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:44

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:44 - “But rumors from the East and from the North will disturb him, and he will go forth with great wrath to destroy and [fn]annihilate many.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 7:12

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 [fn]proclamation to their assembly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:1 - The vision of Obadiah.
Thus says the Lord [fn]GOD concerning Edom—
We have heard a report from the LORD,
And an envoy has been sent among the nations saying,
“Arise and let us go against her for battle”—

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:12 - Thus says the LORD,
“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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:2 - LORD, I have heard [fn]the report about You and [fn]I fear.
O LORD, revive Your work in the midst of the years,
In the midst of the years make it known;
In wrath remember [fn]mercy.
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