ἈΚΟΥΩΝ, ἀκουων
AKOUŌN, akouōn
Sounds Like: ah-KOO-ohn
Translations: hearing, listening, obeying, understanding, one who hears, a hearer
From the root: ἈΚΟΥΩ
Part of Speech: Participle
Explanation: This word is a present active participle, meaning 'hearing' or 'listening'. It describes an ongoing action of perceiving sound. It can function as an adjective, modifying a noun, or as a substantive, referring to 'one who hears' or 'a hearer'. It can also be used adverbially to describe the manner of an action.
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine
Strong’s number: G0191 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 9:3
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 57:7
Ignatius of Antioch
- Ignatius’ Letter to the Ephesians — 16:2
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
Justin Martyr
- First Apology of Justin Martyr — 63:1
- Second Apology of Justin Martyr — 0:12
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 113:1, 127:2
Pseudo Clement of Rome
- Clement’s Second Letter — 15:2
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Numbers — 24:4, 24:16
- Judges — 11:10
- 1 Samuel — 23:10
- 2 Samuel — 15:3, 17:9
- 2 Maccabees — 10:13, 14:18, 14:37
- Psalms — 37:15
- Proverbs — 1:33
- Job — 39:7, 39:34
- Sirach — 22:26, 48:7
- Isaiah — 41:26
- Jeremiah — 4:21
- Ezekiel — 3:27
The Shepherd of Hermas — Commandments
- Mandate 2 — 1:2
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Matthew — 7:26, 13:20, 13:22, 13:23
- Luke — 6:47, 10:16, 19:48
- John — 3:29, 5:24
- Acts — 5:5
- Philemon — 1:5
- Revelation — 22:8, 22:17
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΚΟΥΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἈΚΗΚΟΑΣ — you have heard, you have listened, you have understood
- ἈΚΗΚΟΕΝΑΙ — to have heard, to hear
- ἈΚΗΚΟΩΣ — having heard, having listened, having understood
- ἈΚΟΥΕ — Hear!, Listen!, Obey!
- ἈΚΟΥΕΙ — hears, listens, obeys, understands
- ἈΚΟΥΕΙΝ — to hear, to listen, to obey, to understand
- ἈΚΟΥΕΙΣ — you hear, you listen, you obey, you understand
- ἈΚΟΥΕΣΘΑΙ — to be heard, to be listened to, to be perceived, to hear
- ἈΚΟΥΕΤΑΙ — it is heard, it is being heard, it is reported
- ἈΚΟΥΕΤΕ — hear, listen, obey
- ἈΚΟΥΕΤΩ — let him hear, let her hear, let it hear
- ἈΚΟΥΗ — he may hear, she may hear, it may hear, he may listen, she may listen, it may listen
- ἈΚΟΥΗΤΑΙ — to be heard, it is heard
- ἈΚΟΥΗΤΕ — you hear, you listen, you perceive, you understand
- ἈΚΟΥΟΙΤ — may hear, might hear, would hear, could hear, listen, may listen, might listen
- ἈΚΟΥΟΙΤΕ — you might hear, you would hear, you should hear, you listen, you obey
- ἈΚΟΥΟΝΤΕΣ — hearing, listening, those who hear, those who listen
- ἈΚΟΥΟΝΤΙ — to the one hearing, to the one listening, to a hearer, to a listener
- ἈΚΟΥΟΝΤΩΝ — of those hearing, of those listening, of those who hear, of those who listen
- ἈΚΟΥΟΥΣΙΝ — they hear, they listen, they obey
- ἈΚΟΥΣΑΙ — to hear, to listen, to understand
- ἈΚΟΥΣΑΙΕΝ — they might hear, they would hear, they should hear
- ἈΚΟΥΣΑΙΜΙ — I might hear, may I hear, I would hear
- ἈΚΟΥΣΑΝ — having heard, when they heard, after hearing
- ἈΚΟΥΣΑΝΤΑΣ — having heard, those who heard, having listened, those who listened
- ἈΚΟΥΣΑΝΤΕΣ — having heard, hearing, listening, having listened
- ἈΚΟΥΣΑΝΤΙ — (to) one hearing, (to) one who heard, (to) one having heard
- ἈΚΟΥΣΑΣ — having heard, when he heard, after hearing
- ἈΚΟΥΣΑΣΑΙ — having heard, who heard, when they heard
- ἈΚΟΥΣΑΤΕ — hear, listen, obey, understand
- ἈΚΟΥΣΑΤΩ — let him hear, he must hear
- ἈΚΟΥΣΑΤΩΣΑΝ — let them hear, they should hear, they must hear
- ἈΚΟΥΣΕΙ — he will hear, he shall hear, he will listen, he shall listen
- ἈΚΟΥΣΕΙΑΝ — they might hear, they would hear, they could hear
- ἈΚΟΥΣΕΙΕ — he might hear, he might listen, he might understand
- ἈΚΟΥΣΕΙΕΝ — they might hear, they would hear, they might listen, they would listen
- ἈΚΟΥΣΕΣΘΑΙ — to hear, to listen, to understand, to obey
- ἈΚΟΥΣΕΣΘΕ — you will hear, you will listen, you will obey
- ἈΚΟΥΣΕΤΕ — you will hear, you shall hear, you will listen, you shall listen
- ἈΚΟΥΣΘΕΙΣΙΝ — to those who have been heard, to things heard, to what has been heard
- ἈΚΟΥΣΘΕΝ — having been heard, what was heard, that which was heard
- ἈΚΟΥΣΘΕΝΤΕΣ — having been heard, those who were heard
- ἈΚΟΥΣΘΕΝΤΩΝ — of having been heard, of those having been heard, of things having been heard
- ἈΚΟΥΣΘΗ — it was heard, it may be heard, it should be heard, to be heard
- ἈΚΟΥΣΘΗΝΑΙ — to be heard, to hear, to be listened to
- ἈΚΟΥΣΘΗΣΕΣΘΑΙ — to be heard, to be listened to, to be obeyed
- ἈΚΟΥΣΘΗΣΗ — you will be heard, you will be listened to
- ἈΚΟΥΣΘΗΤΩ — let it be heard, let it be listened to, let it be reported
- ἈΚΟΥΣΘΩΣΙ — let them be heard, may they be heard
- ἈΚΟΥΣΜΑ — hearing, a hearing, report, a report, rumor, a rumor, a thing heard
- ἈΚΟΥΣΟΜΑΙ — I will hear, I will listen, I will obey
- ἈΚΟΥΣΟΜΕΝ — we will hear, we will listen, we will obey
- ἈΚΟΥΣΟΜΕΝΟΝ — about to hear, going to hear, that which is about to hear, who will hear
- ἈΚΟΥΣΟΜΕΝΩΝ — of those who will hear, of those who are about to hear
- ἈΚΟΥΣΟΝΤΑΙ — they will hear, they will listen, they will obey
- ἈΚΟΥΣΟΥΣΙΝ — they will hear, they will listen, they will obey
- ἈΚΟΥΣΤΑ — audible, heard, things heard, things to be heard, news, tidings
- ἈΚΟΥΣΤΙΚΑ — auditory, pertaining to hearing, things heard, reports, rumors
- ἈΚΟΥΣΩ — I will hear, I will listen, I will obey
- ἈΚΟΥΣΩΣΙΝ — they may hear, they might hear, they hear, they will hear
- ἈΚΟΥΤΙΣΑΣΘΕ — listen, hear, obey, give ear, understand
- ἈΚΟΥΤΙΣΟΝ — Hear!, Listen!
- ἈΚΟΥΩ — hear, listen, obey, understand
- ἨΚΟΥΕΝ — he heard, she heard, it heard, he was hearing, she was hearing, it was hearing
- ΟΥ̓ΝἈΚΟΥΣΑΣ — not having heard, having not heard
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