Quick Definition
ἀκοή, ῆς, ἡ n.f. hearing, faculty of hearing, ear
Strong's Definition
from 191; hearing (the act, the sense or the thing heard)
KJV Usage: audience, ear, fame, which ye heard, hearing, preached, report, rumor
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -ῆς | ἀκούω
24.52 · Sensory Events and States · Hear
to hear, hearing{N:001}
MAT 13:14 · LUK 7:1 · ACT 17:20 · GAL 3:2 · GAL 3:5 · 1TH 2:13 · HEB 4:2 · HEB 5:11 · 2PE 2:8
24.53 · Sensory Events and States · Hear
ability to hear, hearing the faculty of hearing In some languages it may be better to speak about the organs involved rather than the related faculties, for example, ‘if the whole body were an eye, what about the ears?’
24.57 · Sensory Events and States · Hear
what is heard, message (derivative of ἀκούω[a] ‘to hear,’ 24.52) that which is heard by someone In a number of languages the closest equivalent of ‘message’ would be ‘that which is said’ rather than ‘that which is heard,’ and accordingly, one may perhaps best translate ROM 10:16 as ‘who has believed what we said.’
JHN 12:38 · ROM 10:16 · ROM 10:17 · ROM 10:17 · GAL 3:2 · GAL 3:5 · 1TH 2:13 · HEB 4:2
33.213 · Communication · Inform, Announce
news, report, information (derivative of ἀκούω[c] ‘to receive news,’ 33.212) the content of the news which is heard In a number of languages, however, it is impossible to speak of ‘news spreading.’ It therefore may be necessary to render MAT 4:24 as ‘people throughout the whole country of Syria kept hearing from one another about him.’
31.56 · Hold a View, Believe, Trust · Accept As True
to accept, to listen to, to listen and respond, to pay attention and respond, to heed to believe something and to respond to it on the basis of having heard
24.63 · Sensory Events and States · Hear
Collocation: ἀκοῇ ἀκούω
to listen carefully, to listen and listen (a Semitic idiom, literally: to hear with hearing) to listen intently and with presumed continuity
25.11 · Attitudes and Emotions · Desire, Want, Wish
Collocation: κνήθομαι τὴν ἀκοήν
to have itching ears, to desire to hear what one wants to hear, to be desirous of hearing (an idiom, literally: to itch with respect to hearing) to have one’s ears tickled by what is heard
1 As in the case of other so-called semantic derivatives, it seems best in this instance likewise to employ only evident glosses. One could, of course define the process of hearing as ‘perceiving by means of the ears,’ but such a definition would be unnecessarily artificial. 2 The idiom κνήθομαι τὴν ἀκοήν involves two quite distinct semantic features. One is the desire to be pleased, and the second is the means of such gratification, namely, what is heard. It would be possible to classify this idiom either under Sensory Events and States (Domain 24) or here in the domain of Attitudes and Emotions. Since in 2TI 4:3 the latter seems the more focal feature of meaning, the idiom is included at this point.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀκοή, -ῆς, ἡ, (fr. an assumed pf. form ἤκοα, cf. ἀγορά, above [but cf. Epic axoun; Curtius p. 555]); 1. hearing, by which one perceives sounds; sense of hearing: 1 Co. xii. 17; 2 Pet. ii. 8. Hebraistically, ἀκοῇ ἀκούειν by hearing to hear i. e. to perceive by hearing, Mt. xiii. 14; Acts xxviii. 26, (Is. vi. 9); cf. W. § 44, 8 Rem. 3 Ρ. 339; § 54, 3 p. 466; [B. 183 sq. (159)]. 2. the organ of hearing, the ear: Mk. vii. 35; Lk. vii.1; 2 Tim. iv. 8, 4; Acts xvii. 20; Heb. v. 11. 3. thing heard; a. instruction, namely oral; spec. the preaching of the gospel, [A. V. txt. report]: Jn. xii. 838; Ro. x. 16 sq. (τίς ἐπίστευσε τῇ ἀκοῇ ἡμῶν; fr. Is. liii. 1, Hebr. AyD, which in 2S. iv. 4, ete, is rendered ἀγγελία); ἀκοὴ πίστεως preaching on the necessity of faith, (Germ. Glaubenspredigt), Gal. iii. 2,5; λόγος ἀκοῆς i. q. X. ἀκουσθείς [cf. W. 531 (494 sq.)]: 1 Th. ii. 13; Heb. iv. 2. b. hearsay, report, rumor; τινός, concerning any one: Mt. iv. 24; xiv. 1; xxiv. 6; Mk. i. 28; xiii. 7. (Freq. in Grk. writ.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀκοή akoē 24x
hearing; the act or sense of hearing, 1 Cor. 12:17; 2 Pet. 2:8; the instrument of hearing, the ear, Mk. 7:35; a thing heard; announcement, instruction, doctrine, Jn. 12:38; Rom. 10:16; report, Mt. 4:24, et al
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἀκοή, -ῆς, ἡ
(< ἀκούω), [in LXX: Ex 15:26, al. for שׁמע, its parts and derivatives, exc. De 11:22 (שׁמר);]
hearing, the sense of hearing: I Co 12:17, II Pe 2:8; "Hebraic dative," ἀκοῇ ακούειν (freq. in LXX; V. M, Pr., 14, 75), Mt 13:14, Ac 28:26.
organ of hearing, the ear (Arist., al.; MM, VGT, s.v.): II Ti 4:3, 4; pl., Mk 7:35, Lk 7:1, Ac 17:20, He 5:11.
a thing heard, i.e., a message, teaching: Jo 12:38 and Ro 16:16, 17(LXX), Ga 3:2, 5 R, mg.; λόγος ἀκοῆς, I Th 2:13, He 4:2;
a report, rumour: c. gen, pers., Mt 4:24, 14:1, 24:6; Mk 1:28 13:7 (Cremer, 82, 623; MM, VGT, s.v.).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀκοή. The word is sometimes concrete, denoting ‘the ear”: so in the late document cited above under ἀκλινής, and in P Oxy I. 1294 (vi/A bp.) εἰς ἀκοὰς ἐμὰς ἦλθεν. Much earlier is Wiinsch 4 12? (ΠῚ A.D.) where ἀκοάς stands between ἐνκέφαλον [πρόσωϊπον and ὀφρ[ ῦ9] μυκτῆρας. Its more normal sense of ‘‘ hearing”? appears in a would-be cultured letter, BGU IV. 10808 (iii/A.D.) (= Chrest. I. p. 564) καὶ ἡμεῖς δὲ ἀκοῇ ἀπόντες ὡς παρόντες διαθέσι ηὐφράνθημεν :
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἀκοή (akoē) — hearing. ἀκοή, ἡ, Epic dialect ἀκουή· (ἀκοϝ, compare ἀκούω):— hearing, sound heard, ἕκαθεν δέ τε γίγνετ᾽ ἀ.[Refs 8th c.BC+]
2. thing heard, tidings, μετὰ πατρὸς ἀκουὴν ἱκέσθαι, βῆναι, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; κατὰ τὴν Σόλωνος ἀκοήν according to Solon's story, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; report, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. σοφοῖς thing for wise men to listen to, [Refs]; ἀκοῇ ἱστορεῖν, παραλαβεῖν τι by hearsay, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰς ἀ. τῶν προγεγενημένων traditions, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀκοὴν μαρτυρεῖν, προσάγειν, give, bring hearsay evidence, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἐκ γὰρ ἀκουῆς οἰκτίρω σε[Refs 6th c.AD+]
II. sense of hearing, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; joined with ὄψις, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.2. act of hearing, ἐς ἀκοὰν ἐμήν to my hearing, my ear, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀκοαῖς δέχεσθαι, εἰς ἀκοὰς.. ἥκειν, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀκοὴν ὑπειπών demanding a hearing, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.3. ear, ὀππάτεσσι δ᾽ οὖδεν ὄρημ᾽, ἐπιρρόμβεισι δ᾽ ἄκουαι[Refs 7th c.BC+]; δυσὶν ἀκοαῖς κρίνειν with two ears, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
III. hearing, listening to, ἀκοῆς ἄξιος[Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἰς ἀκοὴν φωνῆς within hearing of.., [Refs 1st c.BC+]
IV. obedience, ἀ. ὑπὲρ θυσίαν ἀγαθή[LXX]
V. in plural, place where supernatural voices are heard, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]