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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 forth to all Syria, and they brought to him all having ailments, pressed with manifold sicknesses and pains, and demoniacs, and lunatics, and paralytics, and he healed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:14 - and fulfilled on them is the prophecy of Isaiah, that saith, With hearing ye shall hear, and ye shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and ye shall not perceive,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 14:1

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:6 - and ye shall begin to hear of wars, and reports of wars; see, be not troubled, for it behoveth all these to come to pass, but the end is not yet.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 1:28

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:28 - And the fame of him went forth immediately to all the region, round about, of Galilee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 7:35

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:35 - and immediately were his ears opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he was speaking plain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 13:7 - and when ye may hear of wars and reports of wars, be not troubled, for these behove to be, but the end is not yet;

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:1 - And when he completed all his sayings in the ears of the people, he went into Capernaum;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 12:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:38 - that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he said, 'Lord, who gave credence to our report? and the arm of the Lord -- to whom was it revealed?'

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 17:20

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:20 - for certain strange things thou dost bring to our ears? we wish, then, to know what these things would wish to be;'

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 28:26

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 28:26 - saying, Go on unto this people and say, With hearing ye shall hear, and ye shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and ye shall not perceive,

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 10:16

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 10:16 - But they were not all obedient to the good tidings, for Isaiah saith, 'Lord, who did give credence to our report?'

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 10:17 - so then the faith is by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

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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 the whole hearing, where the smelling?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:2 - this only do I wish to learn from you -- by works of law the Spirit did ye receive, or by the hearing of faith?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:5 - He, therefore, who is supplying to you the Spirit, and working mighty acts among you -- by works of law or by the hearing of faith is it?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 2:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:13 - Because of this also, we -- we do give thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of hearing from us of God, ye accepted, not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, who also doth work in you who believe;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ti 4:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 4:3 - for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers -- itching in the hearing,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ti 4:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 4:4 - and indeed, from the truth the hearing they shall turn away, and to the fables they shall be turned aside.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 4:2 - for we also are having good news proclaimed, even as they, but the word heard 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 discourse and of hard explanation to say, since ye have become dull of hearing,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 2:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:8 - for in seeing and hearing, the righteous man, dwelling among them, day by day the righteous soul with unlawful works was harassing.
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