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Lexicon :: Strong's G3775 - ous

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οὖς
Transliteration
ous (Key)
Pronunciation
ooce
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Apparently a primary word
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 5:543,744

Strong’s Definitions

οὖς oûs, ooce; apparently a primary word; the ear (physically or mentally):—ear.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x

The KJV translates Strong's G3775 in the following manner: ear (37x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x
The KJV translates Strong's G3775 in the following manner: ear (37x).

  1. the ear

  2. metaph. the faculty of perceiving with the mind, the faculty of understanding and knowing

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
οὖς oûs, ooce; apparently a primary word; the ear (physically or mentally):—ear.
STRONGS G3775:
οὖς, genitive ὠτός, plural ὦτα, dative ὦσιν, τό (cf. Latinauris,ausculto, audio, etc.; akin to ἀΐω, αἰσθάνομαι; cf. Curtius, § 619; Vanicek, p. 67); from Homer down; Hebrew אֹזֶן; the ear;
1. properly: Matthew 13:16; Mark 7:33; Luke 22:50; 1 Corinthians 2:9; 1 Corinthians 12:16; ὦτα τίνος εἰς δέησιν, to hear supplication, 1 Peter 3:12; ἡ γραφή πληροῦται ἐν τοῖς ὠσί τίνος, while present and hearing, Luke 4:21 (Baruch 1:3f); those unwilling to hear a thing are said συνέχειν (which see 2 a.) τά ὦτα, to stop their ears, Acts 7:57; ἠκούσθη τί εἰς τά ὦτα τίνος, something was heard by, came to the knowledge of (A. V. came to the ears of) one, Acts 11:22; likewise ἐισέρχεσθαι, James 5:4; γίνεσθαι, to come unto the ears of one, Luke 1:44; ἀκούειν εἰς τό οὖς, to hear (A. V. in the ear i. e.) in familiar converse, privately, Matthew 10:27 (εἰς οὖς often so in classical Greek; cf. Passow (Liddell and Scott), under the word, 1); also πρός τό οὖς λαλεῖν, Luke 12:3.
2. metaphorically equivalent to: the faculty of perceiving with the mind, the faculty of understanding and knowing: Matthew 13:16; ὁ ἔχων (or εἰ τίς ἔχει) ὦτα (or οὖς, in Rev.) (sometimes (especially in Mark and Luke) with ἀκούειν added; cf. Buttmann, § 140, 3) ἀκουέτω, whoever has the faculty of attending and understanding, let him use it, Matthew 11:15; Matthew 13:9, 43; Mark 4:9, 23; Mark 7:16 (T WH omit; Tr brackets the verse); Luke 8:8; Luke 14:35 (34); Revelation 2:7, 11, 17, 29; Revelation 3:6, 13, 22; Revelation 13:9; τοῖς ὠσί βαρέως ἀκούειν, to be slow to understand or obey (A. V. their ears are dull of hearing), Matthew 13:15; Acts 28:27 (from Isaiah 6:10); ὦτα ἔχοντες οὐκ ἀκούετε, Mark 8:18; ὦτα τοῦ μή ἀκούειν, (ears that they should not hear; cf. Buttmann, 267 (230)), Romans 11:8; θέσθε τούς λόγους τούτους εἰς τά ὦτα (A. V. let these words sink into your ears i. e.) take them into your memory and hold them there, Luke 9:44; ἀπερίτμητος τοῖς ὦσιν (see ἀπερίτμητος), Acts 7:51.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Isaiah
6:10
Matthew
10:27; 11:15; 13:9; 13:15; 13:16; 13:16; 13:43
Mark
4:9; 4:23; 7:16; 7:33; 8:18
Luke
1:44; 4:21; 8:8; 9:44; 12:3; 14:35; 22:50
Acts
7:51; 7:57; 11:22; 28:27
Romans
11:8
1 Corinthians
2:9; 12:16
James
5:4
1 Peter
3:12
Revelation
2:7; 2:11; 2:17; 2:29; 3:6; 3:13; 3:22; 13:9

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3775 matches the Greek οὖς (ous),
which occurs 36 times in 34 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 10:27

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:27 - What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light, and what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the housetops.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:15 - The one who has ears had better listen!

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:9 - The one who has ears had better listen!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:15 - For the heart of this people has become dull; they are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:16

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:16 - "But your eyes are blessed because they see, and your ears because they hear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:43

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:43 - Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. The one who has ears had better listen!

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:9 - And he said, "Whoever has ears to hear had better listen!"

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:23 - If anyone has ears to hear, he had better listen!"

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:33 - After Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd, he put his fingers in the man's ears, and after spitting, he touched his tongue.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:18 - Though you have eyes, don't you see? And though you have ears, can't you hear? Don't you remember?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:44 - For the instant the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:21 - Then he began to tell them, "Today this scripture has been fulfilled even as you heard it being read."

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 8:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:8 - But other seed fell on good soil and grew, and it produced a hundred times as much grain." As he said this, he called out, "The one who has ears to hear had better listen!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 9:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:44 - "Take these words to heart, for the Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men."

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:3 - So then whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms will be proclaimed from the housetops.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:35 - It is of no value for the soil or for the manure pile; it is to be thrown out. The one who has ears to hear had better listen!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 22:50

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:50 - Then one of them struck the high priest's slave, cutting off his right ear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:51

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:51 - "You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did!

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:57

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:57 - But they covered their ears, shouting out with a loud voice, and rushed at him with one intent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 11:22

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:22 - A report about them came to the attention of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 28:27

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 28:27 - For the heart of this people has become dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have closed their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them."'

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:8 - as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, to this very day."

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 2:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 2:9 - But just as it is written, "Things that no eye has seen, or ear heard, or mind imagined, are the things God has prepared for those who love him."

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 12:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:16 - And if the ear says, "Since I am not an eye, I am not part of the body," it does not lose its membership in the body because of that.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:4 - Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 3:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 3:12 - For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous and his ears are open to their prayer. But the Lord's face is against those who do evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:7 - The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will permit him to eat from the tree of life that is in the paradise of God.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:11 - The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will in no way be harmed by the second death.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:17 - The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give him some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on that stone will be written a new name that no one can understand except the one who receives it.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 2:29

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:29 - The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 3:6 - The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 3:13 - The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 3:22

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 3:22 - The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 13:9 - If anyone has an ear, he had better listen!
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