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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 said, “If you diligently heed the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 19:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:5 - ‘Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:23 - “If you afflict them in any way, and they cry at all to Me, I will surely hear their cry;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:1 - “You shall not circulate a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:22 - “But if you indeed obey His voice and do all that I speak, 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 - ‘And it shall be that if you earnestly obey My commandments which I command you today, to love the LORD your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:22 - “For if you carefully keep all these commandments which I command you to do—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:5 - “only if you carefully obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe with care all these commandments which I command you today.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:1 - “Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the LORD your God will set you high above all nations of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:2 - “And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the LORD your God:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:24 - “No, my sons! For it is not a good report that I hear. You make the LORD’s people transgress.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:22 - So Samuel said:

“Has the LORD as great 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 - And it came to pass, while they were on the way, that news came to David, saying, “Absalom has killed 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 - The foreigners submit 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 more honored than the thirty, but he did not attain to the first three. And David appointed him over his guard.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:28 - Then news came to Joab, for Joab had defected to Adonijah, though he had not defected to Absalom. So Joab fled to the tabernacle 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 - “However I did not believe the words until I came and saw with my own eyes; and indeed the half was not told me. Your wisdom and prosperity exceed the fame of which I heard.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:6 - “However I did not believe their words until I came and saw with my own eyes; and indeed the half of the greatness of your wisdom was not told me. You exceed the fame of which I heard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 37:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:2 - Hear attentively the thunder of His voice,
And the rumbling that comes 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 of me they obey me;
The foreigners submit to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 112:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:7 - He will not be afraid of 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 - And He said, “Go, and tell this people:

‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand;
Keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 52:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:7 - How beautiful upon the mountains
Are the feet of him who brings good news,
Who proclaims peace,
Who brings glad tidings of good things,
Who proclaims salvation,
Who says to Zion,
“Your God reigns!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 53:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:1 - Who has believed our report?
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 grow feeble.
Anguish has taken hold of us,
Pain as of a woman in labor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:22 - Behold, the noise of the report has come,
And a great commotion out of the north country,
To make the cities of Judah desolate, a den of jackals.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 17:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:24 - “And it shall be, if you heed Me carefully,” says the LORD, “to bring no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work in it,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:18 - “I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself:
‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised,
Like an untrained bull;
Restore me, and I will return,
For You are the LORD my God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 37:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:5 - Then Pharaoh’s army came up from Egypt; and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news of them, they departed 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 ambassador has been sent to the nations:
“Gather together, come against her,
And rise up to battle!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:23 - Against Damascus.

“Hamath and Arpad are shamed,
For they have heard bad news.
They are fainthearted;
There is trouble on the sea;
It cannot be quiet.

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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 grow feeble;
Anguish has taken hold of him,
Pangs as of a woman in childbirth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:56

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:56 - “For your sister Sodom was not a byword in your mouth in the days of your pride,

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:44

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:44 - “But news from the east and the north shall trouble him; therefore he shall go out with great fury to destroy and annihilate many.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:12 - Wherever they go, I will spread My net on them;
I will bring them down like birds of the air;
I will chastise them
According to what their congregation has heard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:1 - The vision of Obadiah.

Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom
(We have heard a report from the LORD,
And a messenger has been sent among the nations, saying,
“Arise, and let us rise up 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 safe, and likewise many,
Yet in this manner they will be cut down
When he passes through.
Though I have afflicted you,
I will afflict you no more;

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:2 - O LORD, I have heard Your speech and was afraid;
O LORD, revive Your work in the midst of the years!
In the midst of the years make it known;
In wrath remember mercy.
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