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Lexicon :: Strong's G189 - akoē

Aa
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 MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 4:24

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 4:24 - And news of him went out through all Syria; and they took to him all who were ill with different diseases and pains, those having evil spirits and those who were off their heads, and those who had no power of moving. And he made them well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:14 - And for them the words of Isaiah have come true, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:1 - At that time news of Jesus came to Herod the king;

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:6 - And news will come to you of wars and talk of wars: do not be troubled, for these things have to be; but it is still not the end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:28 - And news of him went out quickly everywhere into all parts of Galilee round about.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:35

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:35 - And his ears became open, and the band of his tongue was made loose, and his words became clear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 13:7 - And when you have news of wars and talk of wars, do not be troubled; these things have to be, but it is still not the end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:1 - After he had come to the end of all his words in the hearing of the people, he went into Capernaum.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:38 - So that the words of the prophet Isaiah might come true, when he said, Lord, who has any belief in our preaching? and the arm of the Lord, to whom has it been unveiled?

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:20

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:20 - For you seem to us to say strange things, and we have a desire to get the sense of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 28:26

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 28:26 - Go to this people and say, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 10:16

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 10:16 - But they have not all given ear to the good news. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has had faith in our word?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 10:17 - So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:17 - If all the body was an eye, where would be the hearing? if all was hearing, where would be the smelling?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:2 - Give me an answer to this one question, Did the Spirit come to you through the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:5 - He who gives you the Spirit, and does works of power among you, is it by the works of law, or by the hearing of faith?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:13 - And for this cause we still give praise to God, that, when the word came to your ears through us, you took it, not as the word of man, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which has living power in you who have faith.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 4:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 4:3 - For the time will come when they will not take the true teaching; but, moved by their desires, they will get for themselves a great number of teachers for the pleasure of hearing them;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 4:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 4:4 - And shutting their ears to what is true, will be turned away to belief in foolish stories.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 4:2 - And, truly, the good news came to us, even as it did to them; but the hearing of the word did them no good, because they were not united in faith with the true hearers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 5:11 - Of whom we have much to say which it is hard to make clear, because you are slow of hearing.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:8 - (Because the soul of that upright man living among them was pained from day to day by seeing and hearing their crimes):
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