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Lexicon :: Strong's G3775 - ous

Aa
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.
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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 BoxMat 10:27

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:27 - What I say to you in the dark, say in the light: and what comes to your ear secretly, say publicly from the house-tops.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:15 - He who has ears, let him give ear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:9 - He who has ears, let him give ear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:15 - For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:16

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:16 - But a blessing be on your eyes, because they see; and on your ears, because they are open.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:43

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:43 - Then will the upright be shining as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him give ear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:9 - And he said to them, Whoever has ears, let him give ear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:23 - If any man has ears, let him give ear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:33 - And he took him on one side from the people privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he put water from his mouth on the man's tongue with his finger;

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:18 - Having eyes, do you not see? and having ears, have you no hearing? and have you no memory?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:44 - For, truly, when the sound of your voice came to my ears, the baby in my body made a sudden move for joy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:21 - Then he said to them, Today this word has come true in your hearing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:8 - And some falling on good earth, came up and gave fruit a hundred times as much. And with these words he said in a loud voice, He who has ears, let him give ear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:44 - Let these words go deep into your ears, for the Son of man will be given up into the hands of men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:3 - So, whatever you have said in the dark, will come to men's hearing in the light, and what you have said secretly inside the house, will be made public from the house-tops.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:35 - It is no good for the land or for the place of waste; no one has a use for it. He who has ears, let him give ear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:50

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:50 - And one of them gave a blow to the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:51

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:51 - You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:57

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:57 - But with loud cries, and stopping their ears, they made an attack on him all together,

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:22

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:22 - And news of them came to the ears of the church at Jerusalem: and they sent Barnabas as far as Antioch:

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 28:27

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 28:27 - For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:8 - As it was said in the holy Writings, God gave them a spirit of sleep, eyes which might not see, and ears which have no hearing, to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 2:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 2:9 - But as it says in the holy Writings, Things which the eye saw not, and which had not come to the ears or into the heart of man, such things as God has made ready for those who have love for him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:16 - And if the ear says, Because I am not the eye, I am not a part of the body; it is a part of the body all the same.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:4 - See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 3:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 3:12 - For the eyes of the Lord are on the upright, and his ears are open to their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:7 - He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give of the fruit of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:11 - He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not come under the power of the second death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:17 - He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give of the secret manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name, of which no one has knowledge but he to whom it is given.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:29

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:29 - He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 3:6 - He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 3:13 - He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 3:22

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 3:22 - He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 13:9 - If any man has ears, let him give ear.
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