akouō G191

ἀκούω (akouō) means “to hear” in the TBESG Greek lexicon from STEPBible.

ἀκούω Greek · G191 426 tagged occurrences in 396 verses

Pronunciation guide: ak-oo'-o Strong’s Greek pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESG · G0191

ἀκούω · akouō · to hear

ἀκούω, [in LXX chiefly for שׁמע ] to hear, listen, attend, perceive by hearing, comprehend by hearing. 1. Intrans.: Mrk.4:3 7:37, Jas.2:5, Rev.2:7, al.; τ. ὠσίν, Mat.13:15 (LXX); with cogn. dative, ακοῇ ἀ. (see: ἀκοή), Mat.13:14, Act.28:26" (LXX) ; ὁ ἔχων ὦτα (οὖς) ἀκούειν, ἀκουσάτω, Mat.11:15, Mrk.4:23, Rev.2:7, al. 2. Trans., prop. with accusative of thing(s), of thing heard, genitive of person(s), from whom heard (LS, see word): Act.1:4; with accusative of thing(s), Mat.12:19, Jhn.3:8 (Abbott, JG, 76), Act.22:9, al.; with dupl. accusative, Jhn.12:18, 1Co.11:18; with genitive of thing(s), Jhn.7:40 (Abbott, JV, 116); τ. φωνῆς (cf. Heb. שָׁמַע בְּקוֹל, Exo.18:19), Jhn.5:25, 28 Act.9:7 (on the distinction bet. this and ἀ. φωνήν, ib. 4, see M, Pr., 66; Field, Notes, 117; Abbott, Essays, 93f.); of God answering prayer, Jhn.9:31, 1Jn.5:14, 15; with accusative of thing(s), before παρά, Jhn.8:26, 40 Act.10:22, 2Ti.2:2; id. before ἀπό, 1Jn.1:5; with genitive pars. before ptcp., Mrk.14:58, Luk.18:36, al. (On NT usage generally, see Bl., §36, 5; Cremer, 82.) (AS)

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Dodson Greek Lexicon

I hear, listen, comprehend by hearing; pass: is heard, reported.

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How translators render G191

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
heard	44
i heard	26
hear	24
you have heard	19
to hear	17
let him hear	15
heard this	14
hears	14
you hear	9
listen	8
listen to	7
heard about this	5
hearing	5
on hearing	5
they heard	5
we have heard	5
he heard	4
hearing this	4
and heard	3
he hears	3
heard about	3
i hear	3
listens to	3
to listen to	3
when they heard	3
when they heard this	3
will hear	3
you heard	3
did not hear it	2
do you not hear	2
does not listen to	2
has heard	2
hear that	2
heard him	2
heard it	2
i had heard	2
i have heard	2
jesus heard	2
listen to me	2
listened to	2
listening to	2
listens	2
they had heard	2
they hardly hear	2
we heard	2
who heard this	2
will listen	2
you hear of	2
accept	1
among those listening	1
and i heard	1
and when the people heard	1
as they had been told	1
be heard	1
because i hear about	1
because we have heard about	1
can they hear	1
comprehended it	1
consider	1
could not hear	1
did not listen to	1
did they not hear	1
do you hear	1
do you not understand what	1
does not listen	1
ever hearing	1
found out about it	1
found out about this	1
had heard	1
have heard	1
have not heard	1
have told me	1
having heard	1
he does listen to	1
he had heard	1
he listened	1
he listens to	1
he will not listen	1
hear of	1
heard about john	1
heard from me	1
heard of	1
heard that	1
heard this statement	1
heard what had happened	1
hearers	1
hears my words	1
hears them	1
heed	1
i had previously heard	1
i have learned	1
i hear that	1
i heard about	1
in the hearing	1
is heard	1
is whispered	1
let your brothers listen to	1
listen for	1
listened	1
listeners	1
listens for	1
mary heard this	1
on hearing it	1
on hearing this	1
on his words	1
overheard them	1
reached	1
reaches	1
reported that there is	1
the believers heard this	1
the centurion heard	1
the crowd listened	1
the men heard this	1
the people heard this	1
the things he heard	1
the witnesses heard	1
they could not understand	1
they do not hear	1
they do not listen to	1
they have not heard	1
they hear	1
they hear it	1
they heard about	1
they heard that	1
they will certainly hear	1
they will listen to	1
though hearing	1
to accept	1
to hear him	1
to hear it	1
to hear this	1
to listen	1
understand	1
understands him	1
vvv	1
was listening to	1
we have heard it	1
we have heard that	1
we have not even heard	1
we hear	1
we hear that	1
we heard about you	1
we want to hear	1
were aware	1
were listening to	1
when he learned	1
when the council members heard this	1
when the people heard this	1
when the ruler heard	1
when the woman heard	1
who hear	1
who heard him	1
who heard the message	1
who listen	1
will be heard	1
will never call out	1
will never ring out	1
worth hearing	1
would hear	1
would hear it	1
would you listen to	1
you always hear	1
you did not listen	1
you have heard about	1
you have heard of	1
you have never heard	1
you heard it	1
you heard of	1
you listen	1
you must listen to	1
you will be ever hearing	1
you will hear	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
heard	88
hear	40
to hear	26
i heard	25
let him hear	16
when	16
when they heard	14
ye have heard	14
heareth	12
hearing	12
they heard	10
had heard	9
we have heard	6
ye hear	6
i have heard	5
hear ye	4
hearken	4
shall be heard	4
they hear	4
when he heard	4
when they had heard	4
ye shall hear	4
and heard	3
he heareth	3
they had heard	3
they that hear	3
they that heard	3
thou hast heard	3
ye will hear	3
did	2
for to hear	2
have	2
have heard	2
he had heard	2
he heard	2
he that heareth	2
hearest thou	2
i hear	2
shall hear	2
shall ye hear	2
that hear	2
that heard	2
that heareth	2
they have heard	2
thou hearest	2
we heard	2
ye have heard of	2
ye heard	2
after i heard	1
after that ye heard	1
after they heard	1
and	1
and having heard	1
are	1
audience	1
came	1
come	1
do ye	1
ears	1
gave audience	1
give audience	1
having heard	1
he hear	1
he shall hear	1
he will	1
heard i	1
heard me	1
heard this	1
i had heard	1
i may hear	1
in the audience	1
in them that heard	1
it hear	1
it is reported	1
it was noised	1
let him that heareth	1
let them hear	1
man understandeth	1
might hear	1
of the hearers	1
of them which heard	1
one that heareth	1
shall	1
shall they hear	1
she heard	1
should hear	1
shouldest hear	1
such as hear	1
that i hear	1
that they should	1
that thou wouldest hear	1
them	1
them that hear	1
them that heard	1
they gave	1
they have	1
they heard that	1
they may hear	1
they shall hear	1
they which heard	1
they will hear	1
thou shalt hear	1
to hearken	1
to the things which we have heard	1
unto the hearers	1
was it	1
was there	1
we do hear	1
we hear	1
we will hear	1
when she had heard	1
when they have heard	1
which hear	1
which heard	1
will	1
will hear it	1
ye	1
ye do hear	1
ye had heard	1
ye have	1

Verses containing G191

Page 5 of 8. 396 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

John 14:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Whoever does not love Me does not keep My words. The word that you hear is not My own, but it is from the Father who sent Me.
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John 14:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You heard Me say, ‘I am going away, and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.
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John 15:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.
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John 16:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.
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John 18:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Why are you asking Me? Ask those who heard My message. Surely they know what I said.”
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John 18:37 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Then You are a king!” Pilate said. “You say that I am a king,” Jesus answered. “For this reason I was born and have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to My voice.”
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John 19:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid,
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John 19:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat on the judgment seat at a place called the Stone Pavement, which in Hebrew is Gabbatha.
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John 21:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” As soon as Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his outer garment (for he had removed it) and jumped into the sea.
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Acts 1:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And while they were gathered together, He commanded them: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift the Father promised, which you have heard Me discuss.
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Acts 2:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And when this sound rang out, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard them speaking his own language.
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Acts 2:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
How is it then that each of us hears them in his own native language?
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Acts 2:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome,
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Source alternate reference: 2.10
Acts 2:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Men of Israel, listen to this message: Jesus of Nazareth was a man certified by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs, which God did among you through Him, as you yourselves know.
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Acts 2:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Exalted, then, to the right hand of God, He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.
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Acts 2:37 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”
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Acts 3:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He tells you.
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Acts 3:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Everyone who does not listen to Him will be completely cut off from among his people.’
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Acts 4:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But many who heard the message believed, and the number of men grew to about five thousand.
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Acts 4:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But Peter and John replied, “Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God’s sight to listen to you rather than God.
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Acts 4:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”
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Acts 4:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the believers heard this, they lifted up their voices to God with one accord. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “You made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them.
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Acts 5:5 · BSB · 2 occurrences
On hearing these words, Ananias fell down and died. And great fear came over all who heard what had happened.
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Acts 5:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And great fear came over the whole church and all who heard about these events.
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Acts 5:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
At daybreak the apostles entered the temple courts as they had been told and began to teach the people. When the high priest and his associates arrived, they convened the Sanhedrin—the full assembly of the elders of Israel—and sent to the jail for the apostles.
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Acts 5:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests heard this account, they were perplexed as to what was happening.
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Acts 5:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the Council members heard this, they were enraged, and they resolved to put the apostles to death.
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Acts 6:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then they prompted some men to say, “We heard Stephen speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God.”
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Acts 6:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”
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Acts 7:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Stephen declared: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
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Acts 7:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers on their first visit.
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Acts 7:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I have indeed seen the oppression of My people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.’
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Acts 7:54 · BSB · 1 occurrence
On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were enraged, and they gnashed their teeth at him.
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Acts 8:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The crowds all paid close attention to Philip’s message and to the signs they saw him perform.
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Acts 8:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them.
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Acts 8:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Philip ran up and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked.
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Acts 9:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?”
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Acts 9:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The men traveling with Saul stood there speechless. They heard the voice but did not see anyone.
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Acts 9:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But Ananias answered, “Lord, many people have told me about this man and all the harm he has done to Your saints in Jerusalem.
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Acts 9:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
All who heard him were astounded and asked, “Isn’t this the man who wreaked havoc in Jerusalem on those who call on this name? And hasn’t he come here to take them as prisoners to the chief priests?”
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Acts 9:38 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to urge him, “Come to us without delay.”
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Acts 10:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Cornelius the centurion has sent us,” they said. “He is a righteous and God-fearing man with a good reputation among the whole Jewish nation. A holy angel instructed him to request your presence in his home so he could hear a message from you.”
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Acts 10:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So I sent for you immediately, and you were kind enough to come. Now then, we are all here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has instructed you to tell us.”
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Acts 10:44 · BSB · 1 occurrence
While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who heard his message.
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Acts 10:46 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For they heard them speaking in tongues and exalting God. Then Peter said,
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Acts 11:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The apostles and brothers throughout Judea soon heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.
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Acts 11:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter, kill and eat.’
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Acts 11:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When they heard this, they had no further objections, and they glorified God, saying, “So then, God has granted even the Gentiles repentance unto life.”
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Acts 11:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When news of this reached the ears of the church in Jerusalem, they sent Barnabas to Antioch.
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Acts 13:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
an attendant of the proconsul, Sergius Paulus. The proconsul, a man of intelligence, summoned Barnabas and Saul because he wanted to hear the word of God.
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