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Lexicon :: Strong's G191 - akouō

Aa
ἀκούω
Transliteration
akouō (Key)
Pronunciation
ak-oo'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A root
mGNT
428x in 57 unique form(s)
TR
437x in 73 unique form(s)
LXX
852x in 80 unique form(s)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:216,34

Strong’s Definitions

ἀκούω akoúō, ak-oo'-o; a primary verb; to hear (in various senses):—give (in the) audience (of), come (to the ears), (shall) hear(-er, -ken), be noised, be reported, understand.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 437x

The KJV translates Strong's G191 in the following manner: hear (418x), hearken (6x), give audience (3x), hearer (2x), miscellaneous (8x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 437x
The KJV translates Strong's G191 in the following manner: hear (418x), hearken (6x), give audience (3x), hearer (2x), miscellaneous (8x).
  1. to be endowed with the faculty of hearing, not deaf

  2. to hear

    1. to attend to, consider what is or has been said

    2. to understand, perceive the sense of what is said

  3. to hear something

    1. to perceive by the ear what is announced in one's presence

    2. to get by hearing learn

    3. a thing comes to one's ears, to find out, learn

    4. to give ear to a teaching or a teacher

    5. to comprehend, to understand

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἀκούω akoúō, ak-oo'-o; a primary verb; to hear (in various senses):—give (in the) audience (of), come (to the ears), (shall) hear(-er, -ken), be noised, be reported, understand.
STRONGS G191:
ἀκούω [on the use of the present in a perfect sense cf. Winers Grammar, 274f (258); Buttmann, 203 (176)]; imperfect ἤκουον; future (in best Greek usage) ἀκούσομαι, John 5:25 R G L, John 5:28 R G L; Acts 3:22; Acts 7:37 R G; Acts 17:32; [Acts 21:22]; Acts 25:22; 28:28; [Romans 10:14 Tdf.], and (a later form) ἀκούσω, Matthew 12:19; Matthew 13:14 (both from the Sept.); [John 10:16; John 16:13 Tr WH marginal reading; Acts 28:26]; Romans 10:14 [R G]; and T Tr WH in John 5:25, 28 (cf. Winers Grammar, 82 (79); Buttmann, 53 (46) [Veitch, under the word]); [1 aorist ἤκουσα, John 3:32, etc.]; perfect ἀκήκοα; passive [present ἀκούομαι; 1 future ἀκουσθήσομαι]; 1 aorist ἠκούσθην; [from Homer down]; to hear.
I. absolutely
1. to be endowed with the faculty of hearing (not deaf): Mark 7:37; Luke 7:22; Matthew 11:5.
2. to attend to (use the faculty of hearing), consider what is or has been said. So in exhortations: ἀκούετε, Mark 4:3; ἀκούσατε, James 2:5; ἔχων ὦτα ἀκούειν ἀκουέτω, Matthew 11:15; Matthew 13:9 [in both T WH omit; Tr brackets ἀκούειν]; Mark 4:23; Luke 14:35 (34); ἔχων οὖς ἀκουσάτω, Revelation 2:7, 11, 17, 29; Revelation 3:6, 13, 22, etc.
3. tropically, to understand, perceive the sense of what is said: Matthew 13:15; Mark 8:18; 1 Corinthians 14:2.
II. with an object [Buttmann, § 132, 17; Winer's Grammar, 199 (187f)];
1. ἀκούω τι, to hear something;
a. to perceive by the ear what is announced in one's presence (to hear immediately): τὴν φωνήν, Matthew 12:19; John 3:8; Revelation 4:1; Revelation 5:11; Revelation 18:4; Acts 22:9, etc.; τὸν ἀσπασμόν, Luke 1:41 (cf. Luke 1:44); Γαλιλαίαν, the name 'Galilee,' Luke 23:6 [T WH omits; Tr mrg. brackets Γαλ.; cf. Buttmann, 166 (145)]; ἀνάστασιν νεκρῶν, the phrase 'ἀνάστ. νεκρῶν,' Acts 17:32; τὸν λόγον, Mark 5:36 [R G L] (on this passage see παρακούω, 2); Matthew 19:22; John 5:24, etc.; τοὺς λόγους, Acts 2:22; Acts 5:24; Matthew 7:24; ῤήματα, 2 Corinthians 12:4; τί λέγουσιν, Matthew 21:16; passive, Matthew 2:18; Revelation 18:22f; τὶ ἔκ τινος, 2 Corinthians 12:6 [R G]; followed by ὅτι [Buttmann, 300 (257f)], Acts 22:2; Mark 16:11; John 4:42; John 14:28.
b. to get by hearinq, learn (from the mouth of the teacher or narrator): Acts 15:17; Matthew 10:27 ( εἰς τὸ οὖς ἀκούετε, what is taught you in secret); Romans 15:21; Ephesians 1:13; Colossians 1:6; John 14:24; 1 John 2:7, 24; 1 John 3:11; Χριστόν i. e. to become acquainted with Christ from apostolic teaching, Ephesians 4:21 (cf. μαθεῖν τὸν Χριστόν, Ephesians 4:20 [Buttmann, 166 (144) note; Winer's Grammar, 199 (187) note]); passive, Luke 12:3; Hebrews 2:1; τὶ with the genitive of person from whom one hears, Acts 1:4; τὶ παρά τινος, John 8:26, 40; John 15:15; Acts 10:22; Acts 28:22; 2 Timothy 2:2 (Thucydides 6, 93; Xenophon, an. 1, 2, 5 [here Dindorf omits παρά]; Plato, rep. 6, p. 506 d., others; [Buttmann, 166 (145); Winer's Grammar, 199 (188)]); [παρά τινος, without an object expressed, John 1:40 (41)]; ἔκ τινος, John 12:34 (ἐκ τοῦ νόμου, from attendance on its public reading); ἀπό with the genitive of person, 1 John 1:5; with περί τινος added, Acts 9:13; followed by ὅτι, Matthew 5:21, 27, 33, 38, 43.
c. ἀκούω τι, a thing comes to one's ears, to find out (by hearsay), learn, (hear [(of)] mediately): with the accusative of thing, τὰ ἔργα, Matthew 11:2; ὅσα ἐποίει, Mark 3:8 [Treg. text ποιεῖ]; πολέμους, Luke 21:9; Matthew 24:6; Mark 13:7; to learn, absol, viz. what has just been mentioned: Matthew 2:3; Matthew 22:7 [R L]; Mark 2:17; Mark 3:21; Galatians 1:13; Ephesians 1:15; Colossians 1:4; Philemon 1:5, etc. followed by ὅτι, Matthew 2:22; Matthew 4:12; Matthew 20:30; Mark 6:55; Mark 10:47; John 4:47; John 9:35; John 11:6; John 12:12; Galatians 1:23; περί τινος, Mark 7:25; τὶ περί τινος, Luke 9:9; Luke 16:2; Luke 23:8 [R G L]; followed by an accusative with participle [Buttmann, 303 (260)]: Luke 4:23; Acts 7:12; 2 Thessalonians 3:11; 3 John 1:4; followed by an accusative with an infinitive in two instances [cf. Buttmann, the passage cited]: John 12:18; 1 Corinthians 11:18. passive: Acts 11:22 (ἠκούσθη λόγος εἰς τὰ ὦτα τῆς ἐκκλησίας was brought to the ears); 1 Corinthians 5:1 (ἀκούεται πορνεία ἐν ὑμῖν); Matthew 28:14 (ἐὰν ἀκουσθῇ τοῦτο ἐπί [L Tr WH marginal reading ὑπὸ] τοῦ ἡγεμόνος); Mark 2:1; John 9:32 ἠκούσθη ὅτι.
d. to give ear to teaching or teacher: τοὺς λόγους, Matthew 10:14; to follow with attentive hearing, τὸν λόγον, John 8:43; τὰ ῤήματα τοῦ θεοῦ, John 8:47.
e. to comprehend, understand, (like Latin audio): Mark 4:33; Galatians 4:21 ([Lachmann marginal reading ἀναγινώσκετε) yet cf. Meyer at the passage]; (Genesis 11:7).
2. ἀκούειν is not joined with the genitive of the object unless one hear the person or thing with his own ears [Buttmann, 166 (114)];
a. with the genitive of a person; simply;
α. to perceive anyone's voice: οὗ, i. e., of Christ, whose voice is heard in the instruction of his messengers (Luke 10:16), Romans 10:14 [Winer's Grammar, 199 (187) note2],
β. to give ear to one, listen, hearken, (German ihm zuhören, ihn anhören): Matthew 2:9; Mark 7:14; Mark 12:37; Luke 2:46; Luke 10:16; Luke 15:1; Luke 19:48; Luke 21:38; Acts 17:32; Acts 24:24 (in both these passages τινὸς περί τινος); Acts 25:22; John 6:60.
γ. to yield to, hear and obey, hear to one, (German auf einen hören): Matthew 17:5 (Mark 9:7; Luke 9:35); John 3:29; John 10:8; Acts 3:22; Acts 4:19; Acts 7:37 [R G]; 1 John 4:5f. Hence,
δ. its use by John in the sense to listen to, have regard to, of God answering the prayers of men: John 9:31; John 11:41; 1 John 5:14f (the Sept. render שָׁמַע by εἰσακούω).
ε. with the genitive of person and participle [Buttmann, 301 (259)]: Mark 14:58; Luke 18:36; John 1:37; John 7:32; Acts 2:6, 11; Revelation 16:5; ἤκουσα τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου λέγοντος, Revelation 16:7 G L T [Tr WH the Sinaiticus manuscript], a poetic personification; cf. DeWette at the passage, Winers Grammar, § 30, 11.
b. with the genitive of a thing: τῆς βλασφημίας, Mark 14:64 (Lachmann τὴν βλασφημίαν, as in Matthew 26:65; the accusative merely denotes the object; τῆς βλασφ. is equivalent, in sense to αὐτοῦ βλασφημοῦντος, [cf. Buttmann, 166 (145)]); τῶν λόγων, Luke 6:47 (Matthew 7:24 τοὺς λόγους); John 7:40 (L T Tr WH the Sinaiticus manuscript, but R G τὸν λόγον [cf. Buttmann, as above]); συμφωνίας κ. χορῶν, Luke 15:25; τοῦ στεναγμοῦ, Acts 7:34; τῆς ἀπολογίας, Acts 22:1. The frequent phrase ἀκούειν τῆς φωνῆς (equivalent to שָׁמַע בְּקוֹל, Exodus 18:19) means
α. to perceive the distinct words of a voice: John 5:25, 28; Acts 9:7; Acts 11:7; Acts 22:7; Hebrews 3:7, 15; Hebrews 4:7; Revelation 14:13; Revelation 21:3.
β. to yield obedience to the voice: John 5:25 (οἱ ἀκούσαντες namely, τῆς φωνῆς); John 10:16, 27; John 18:37; Revelation 3:20. In John 12:47; John 18:37; Luke 6:47; Acts 22:1, it is better to consider the pronoun μοῦ which precedes as a possessive genitive rather than, with Buttmann, 167 (145f), to assume a double genitive of the object, one of the person and one of the thing.
The Johannean phrase ἀκούειν παρὰ τοῦ θεοῦ, or τὶ παρὰ θεοῦ, signifies
a. to perceive in the soul the inward communication of God: John 6:45.
b. to be taught by God's inward communication: John 8:26, 40 (so, too, the simple ἀκούειν in John 8:30); to be taught by the devil, according to the reading of L T Tr WH, ἠκούσατε παρὰ τοῦ πατρός, in John 8:38. For the rest cf. Buttmann, 165 (144ff); 301 (258ff)
[Compare: δι-, εἰσ-, ἐπ-, παρ-, προ-, ὑπακούω.]
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
11:7
Exodus
18:19
Matthew
2:3; 2:9; 2:18; 2:22; 4:12; 5:21; 5:27; 5:33; 5:38; 5:43; 7:24; 7:24; 10:14; 10:27; 11:2; 11:5; 11:15; 12:19; 12:19; 13:9; 13:14; 13:15; 17:5; 19:22; 20:30; 21:16; 22:7; 24:6; 26:65; 28:14
Mark
2:1; 2:17; 3:8; 3:21; 4:3; 4:23; 4:33; 5:36; 6:55; 7:14; 7:25; 7:37; 8:18; 9:7; 10:47; 12:37; 13:7; 14:58; 14:64; 16:11
Luke
1:41; 1:44; 2:46; 4:23; 6:47; 6:47; 7:22; 9:9; 9:35; 10:16; 10:16; 12:3; 14:35; 15:1; 15:25; 16:2; 18:36; 19:48; 21:9; 21:38; 23:6; 23:8
John
1:37; 1:40; 3:8; 3:29; 3:32; 4:42; 4:47; 5:24; 5:25; 5:25; 5:25; 5:25; 5:28; 5:28; 5:28; 6:45; 6:60; 7:32; 7:40; 8:26; 8:26; 8:30; 8:38; 8:40; 8:40; 8:43; 8:47; 9:31; 9:32; 9:35; 10:8; 10:16; 10:16; 10:27; 11:6; 11:41; 12:12; 12:18; 12:34; 12:47; 14:24; 14:28; 15:15; 16:13; 18:37; 18:37
Acts
1:4; 2:6; 2:11; 2:22; 3:22; 3:22; 4:19; 5:24; 7:12; 7:34; 7:37; 7:37; 9:7; 9:13; 10:22; 11:7; 11:22; 15:17; 17:32; 17:32; 17:32; 21:22; 22:1; 22:1; 22:2; 22:7; 22:9; 24:24; 25:22; 25:22; 28:22; 28:26; 28:28
Romans
10:14; 10:14; 10:14; 15:21
1 Corinthians
5:1; 11:18; 14:2
2 Corinthians
12:4; 12:6
Galatians
1:13; 1:23; 4:21
Ephesians
1:13; 1:15; 4:20; 4:21
Colossians
1:4; 1:6
2 Thessalonians
3:11
2 Timothy
2:2
Philemon
1:5
Hebrews
2:1; 3:7; 3:15; 4:7
James
2:5
1 John
1:5; 2:7; 2:24; 3:11; 4:5; 5:14
3 John
1:4
Revelation
2:7; 2:11; 2:17; 2:29; 3:6; 3:13; 3:20; 3:22; 4:1; 5:11; 14:13; 16:5; 16:7; 18:4; 18:22; 21:3

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G191 matches the Greek ἀκούω (akouō),
which occurs 59 times in 54 verses in 'Jhn' in the MGNT Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Jhn 1:37–Jhn 18:21)

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:37 -

The two disciples heard him say this and followed Jesus.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:40 -

Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard John and followed him.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:8 -

“The wind blows where it pleases, and you hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:29 -

“He who has the bride is the groom. But the groom’s friend, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly[fn] at the groom’s voice. So this joy of mine is complete.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:32 -

He testifies to what he has seen and heard, and yet no one accepts his testimony.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:1 -

When Jesus[fn] learned that the Pharisees had heard he was making and baptizing more disciples than John

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:42 -

And they told the woman, “We no longer believe because of what you said, since we have heard for ourselves and know that this really is the Savior of the world.”[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:47 -

When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to him and pleaded with him to come down and heal his son, since he was about to die.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:24 -

“Truly I tell you, anyone who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not come under judgment but has passed from death to life.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:25 -

“Truly I tell you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:28 -

“Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the graves will hear his voice

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:30 -

“I can do nothing on my own. I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:37 -

“The Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You have not heard his voice at any time, and you haven’t seen his form.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:45 -

“It is written in the Prophets: And they will all be taught by God. Everyone who has listened to and learned from the Father comes to me ​— ​

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:60 -

Therefore, when many of his disciples heard this, they said, “This teaching is hard. Who can accept[fn] it? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:32 -

The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about him, and so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent servants[fn] to arrest him.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:40 -

When some from the crowd heard these words, they said, “This truly is the Prophet.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:51 -

“Our law doesn’t judge a man before it hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:9 -

When they heard this, they left one by one, starting with the older men. Only he was left, with the woman in the center.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:26 -

“I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the one who sent me is true, and what I have heard from him ​— ​these things I tell the world.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:38 -

“I speak what I have seen in the presence of the Father;[fn] so then, you do what you have heard from your father.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:40 -

“But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:43 -

“Why don’t you understand what I say? Because you cannot listen to[fn] my word.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:47 -

“The one who is from God listens to God’s words. This is why you don’t listen, because you are not from God.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:27 -

“I already told you,” he said, “and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t want to become his disciples too, do you? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:31 -

“We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing and does his will, he listens to him.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:32 -

“Throughout history[fn] no one has ever heard of someone opening the eyes of a person born blind.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:35 -

Jesus heard that they had thrown the man out, and when he found him, he asked, “Do you believe in the Son of Man? ”[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:40 -

Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things and asked him, “We aren’t blind too, are we? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:3 -

“The gatekeeper opens it for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:8 -

“All who came before me[fn] are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:16 -

“But I have other sheep that are not from this sheep pen; I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. Then there will be one flock, one shepherd.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:20 -

Many of them were saying, “He has a demon and he’s crazy. Why do you listen to him? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:27 -

“My sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:4 -

When Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness will not end in death but is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:6 -

So when he heard that he was sick, he stayed two more days in the place where he was.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:20 -

As soon as Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him, but Mary remained seated in the house.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:29 -

As soon as Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:41 -

So they removed the stone. Then Jesus raised his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you heard me.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:42 -

“I know that you always hear me, but because of the crowd standing here I said this, so that they may believe you sent me.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:12 -

The next day, when the large crowd that had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:18 -

This is also why the crowd met him, because they heard he had done this sign.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:29 -

The crowd standing there heard it and said it was thunder. Others said, “An angel has spoken to him.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:34 -

Then the crowd replied to him, “We have heard from the law that the Messiah will remain forever. So how can you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:47 -

“If anyone hears my words and doesn’t keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 14:24 -

“The one who doesn’t love me will not keep my words. The word that you hear is not mine but is from the Father who sent me.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 14:28 -

“You have heard me tell you, ‘I am going away and I am coming to you.’ If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 15:15 -

“I do not call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn’t know what his master[fn] is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from my Father.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 16:13 -

“When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth. For he will not speak on his own, but he will speak whatever he hears. He will also declare to you what is to come.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 18:21 -

“Why do you question me? Question those who heard what I told them. Look, they know what I said.”


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