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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 BoxExo 19:5 - Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:23 - If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:1 - “Do not spread false reports. Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:22 - If you listen carefully to what he says and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and will oppose those who oppose you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:13 - So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you today—to love the LORD your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul—

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:22 - If you carefully observe all these commands I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your God, to walk in obedience to him and to hold fast to him—

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:5 - if only you fully obey the LORD your God and are careful to follow all these commands I am giving you today.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:1 - If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:2 - All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:24 - No, my sons; the report I hear spreading among the LORD’s people is not good.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:22 - But Samuel replied: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the LORD? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:30 - While they were on their way, the report came to David: “Absalom has struck down all the king’s sons; not one of them is left.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:45

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:45 - foreigners cower before me; as soon as they hear of me, they obey me.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:23 - He was held in greater honor than any of the Thirty, but he was not included among the Three. And David put him in charge of his bodyguard.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:28 - When the news reached Joab, who had conspired with Adonijah though not with Absalom, he fled to the tent of the LORD and took hold of the horns of the altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:7 - But I did not believe these things until I came and saw with my own eyes. Indeed, not even half was told me; in wisdom and wealth you have far exceeded the report I heard.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:6 - But I did not believe what they said until I came and saw with my own eyes. Indeed, not even half the greatness of your wisdom was told me; you have far exceeded the report I heard.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:2 - Listen! Listen to the roar of his voice, to the rumbling that comes from his mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:5 - My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:44 - foreigners cower before me; as soon as they hear of me, they obey me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:7 - They will have no fear of bad news; their hearts are steadfast, trusting in the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:9 - He said, “Go and tell this people: “ ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:7 - How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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 BoxJer 6:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:24 - We have heard reports about them, and our hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped us, pain like that of a woman in labor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:22 - Listen! The report is coming— a great commotion from the land of the north! It will make the towns of Judah desolate, a haunt of jackals.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:24 - But if you are careful to obey me, declares the LORD, and bring no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy by not doing any work on it,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:18 - “I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me like an unruly calf, and I have been disciplined. Restore me, and I will return, because you are the LORD my God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:5 - Pharaoh’s army had marched out of Egypt, and when the Babylonians[fn] who were besieging Jerusalem heard the report about them, they withdrew from Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:14 - I have heard a message from the LORD; an envoy was sent to the nations to say, “Assemble yourselves to attack it! Rise up for battle!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:23 - Concerning Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are dismayed, for they have heard bad news. They are disheartened, troubled like[fn] the restless sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:43 - The king of Babylon has heard reports about them, and his hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped him, pain like that of a woman in labor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:56

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:56 - You would not even mention your sister Sodom in the day of your pride,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:44

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:44 - But reports from the east and the north will alarm him, and he will set out in a great rage to destroy and annihilate many.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:12 - When they go, I will throw my net over them; I will pull them down like the birds in the sky. When I hear them flocking together, I will catch them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:1 - The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Sovereign LORD says about Edom— We have heard a message from the LORD: An envoy was sent to the nations to say, “Rise, let us go against her for battle”—

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:12 - This is what the LORD says: “Although they have allies and are numerous, they will be destroyed and pass away. Although I have afflicted you, Judah, I will afflict you no more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:2 - LORD, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, LORD. Repeat them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy.
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