ἀκούω akouō

Greek word for “to hear” · Strong’s G191 · used 428 times in 398 verses

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Meaning

ἀκούω; to hear, listen, attend, perceive by hearing, comprehend by hearing.;

How it is translated

Glosses given for akouō in context, with how often each is used:

• having heard 86
• heard 77
• hear 56
• hearing 46
• have heard 35
• should hear 15
• may hear 11
• will hear 9
• shall hear 9
• hears 8
• listening 8
• do hear 7

Where it is used

Also in 11 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Matthew 13 (12), Mark 4 (10), Luke 8 (9), Acts 22 (8), Mark 6 (7), John 8 (6), John 11 (6), Acts 2 (6), Matthew 5 (5), Luke 18 (5)

Forms

• ἀκούσαντες 45
• ἤκουσα 35
• ἀκούσας 22
• ἠκούσατε 21
• ἀκούειν 20
• ἀκούετε 18
• ἤκουσαν 18
• ἤκουσεν 16
• ἀκοῦσαι 15
• ἀκούει 14

Words used with it

Words that share verses with akouō more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• φωνή phōnē “voice/sound” 51
• λόγος logos “word” 55
• οὖς ous “ear” 24
• λαλέω laleō “to speak” 32
• ὄχλος ochlos “crowd” 25
• εἴδω eidō “to perceive” 29
• περί peri “about” 25
• πολύς polus “much” 25
• βλέπω blepō “to see” 18
• πνεῦμα pneuma “spirit/breath” 24
• παρά para “from/with/beside” 19
• συνίημι suniēmi “to understand” 12

Key verses

The verses using akouō that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 11:5 — The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to…
• Matthew 17:5 — While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well…
• John 10:27 — My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
• Philippians 1:27 — Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye…
• Colossians 1:23 — If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every…
• 2 Timothy 4:17 — Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was…
• Hebrews 2:3 — How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
• James 1:19 — Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
• James 2:5 — Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
• Revelation 2:7 — He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst…
• Revelation 19:1 — And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:
• Revelation 22:17 — And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.