Original: ἀκούω

Transliteration: akoúō

Phonetic: ak-oo'-o

Short Definition: Give audience

- Original: ἀκούω

- Transliteration: Akouo

- Phonetic: ak-oo'-o

- Definition:

1. to be endowed with the faculty of hearing, not deaf

2. to hear

a. to attend to, consider what is or has been said

b. to understand, perceive the sense of what is said

3. to hear something

a. to perceive by the ear what is announced in one's presence

b. to get by hearing learn

c. a thing comes to one's ears, to find out, learn

d. to give ear to a teaching or a teacher

e. to comprehend, to understand

- Origin: a root

- TDNT entry: 04:36,3

- Part(s) of speech: Verb

- Strong's: A primary verb; to hear (in various senses): - give (in the) audience (of) come (to the ears) ([shall]) hear (-er -ken) be noised be reported understand.

Cognate: G1522, G1873, G189, G3876, G3878, G5218, G5219, G5255