ἨΚΟΥΣΑ, ἠκουσα
ĒKOUSA, ēkousa
Sounds Like: ay-KOO-sah
Translations: I heard, I have heard
From the root: ἈΚΟΎΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This is a verb form meaning 'I heard' or 'I have heard'. It describes a completed action of hearing in the past, from the perspective of the speaker. It is used when the speaker is stating that they personally received information or sound.
Inflection: First Person Singular, Aorist, Indicative, Active
Strong’s number: G0191 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
1 Enoch Greek Collection
Ignatius of Antioch
- Ignatius’ Letter to the Philadelphians — 8:2
Josephus' Against Apion
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 23:3
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 3:10, 21:26, 27:6, 37:17
- Deuteronomy — 5:28
- 1 Samuel — 12:1, 15:24, 25:35, 28:21
- 1 Kings — 9:3, 10:6, 10:7
- 2 Kings — 19:20, 20:5, 22:19
- 2 Chronicles — 7:12, 9:5, 9:6, 34:27
- Ezra (Beta) — 9:3
- Nehemiah — 5:6
- Tobit — 3:6, 3:6, 6:14
- Psalms — 30:14, 61:12
- Psalms of Solomon — 8:4
- Isaiah — 6:8, 21:10, 28:22, 37:21, 37:26, 38:5
- Jeremiah — 4:31, 20:10, 23:25, 29:15, 31:29, 38:18, 49:4
- Ezekiel — 2:1, 3:12, 35:12, 35:13
- Daniel (Theodotion) — 5:14, 5:16, 8:13, 8:16, 10:9, 12:7, 12:8
- Daniel (Old Greek) — 8:16, 10:9, 12:7, 12:8
- Obadiah — 1:1
- Zephaniah — 2:8
- Enoch — 1:2, 15:1
The Shepherd of Hermas — Commandments
The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions
- Vision 1 — 3:3
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- John — 8:26, 8:40, 15:15
- Acts — 7:34, 9:13, 11:7, 22:7, 26:14
- Revelation — 1:10, 4:1, 5:11, 5:13, 6:1, 6:3, 6:5, 6:6, 6:7, 7:4, 8:13, 9:13, 9:16, 10:4, 10:8, 12:10, 14:2, 14:13, 16:1, 16:5, 16:7, 18:4, 19:1, 19:6, 21:3, 22:8
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΚΟΎΩ.
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.
- ΕἸΣΑΚΟΥΣΩΣΙΝ — they may hear, they may listen, they may obey
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