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Greek · Strong's G191

ἀκούω

akouoak-oo'-o

to hear (in various senses)

1890 spelling: akoúō

  • α1
  • κ20
  • ο70
  • υ400
  • ω800

Isopsephy 1,291

Strong's Dictionary · 1890

to hear (in various senses)

Rendered in the KJV as

give (in the) audience (of), come (to the ears), (shall) hear(-er, -ken), be noised, be reported, understand.

  • 425
    occurrencesin the New Testament
  • 23 of 27
    New Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 116
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 425 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 116

  • ἀκούσαντες39
  • ἤκουσα34
  • ἀκούσας22
  • ἀκούειν17
  • ἠκούσατε17
  • ἤκουσεν15
  • ἀκούοντες14
  • ἤκουσαν13
  • ἀκοῦσαι12
  • Ἀκούσας11
  • ἀκούων11
  • ἀκούετε9

and 104 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 152

  • having heard45
  • I heard31
  • hearing29
  • to hear27
  • Having heard26
  • heard14
  • you have heard11
  • he should hear.8
  • he should hear7
  • do hear6
  • they may hear5
  • You have heard5

The sense the word carries at each spot: how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 57

  • verb · aorist (simple past) active, participle (“the one who…”) · nominative (subject) · masculine plural50
  • verb · aorist (simple past) active, statement · 1st person singular35
  • verb · aorist (simple past) active, participle (“the one who…”) · nominative (subject) · masculine singular33
  • verb · aorist (simple past) active, statement · 2nd person plural26
  • verb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)20
  • verb · aorist (simple past) active, statement · 3rd person plural19
  • verb · aorist (simple past) active, statement · 3rd person singular17
  • verb · aorist (simple past) active, infinitive (“to…”)16
  • verb · present active, participle (“the one who…”) · nominative (subject) · masculine plural15
  • verb · present active, statement · 2nd person plural14
  • verb · present active, statement · 3rd person singular14
  • verb · present active, participle (“the one who…”) · nominative (subject) · masculine singular13
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • V-AAP-NPM · 50
  • V-AAI-1S · 35
  • V-AAP-NSM · 33
  • V-AAI-2P · 26
  • V-PAN · 20
  • V-AAI-3P · 19
  • V-AAI-3S · 17
  • V-AAN · 16
  • V-PAP-NPM · 15
  • V-PAI-2P · 14
  • V-PAI-3S · 14
  • V-PAP-NSM · 13

All 425, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Acts carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Matthew63 occurrences
Mark43 occurrences
Luke64 occurrences
John58 occurrences
Acts89 occurrences
Romans5 occurrences
1 Corinthians4 occurrences
2 Corinthians2 occurrences
Galatians3 occurrences
Ephesians5 occurrences
Philippians4 occurrences
Colossians4 occurrences
2 Thessalonians1 occurrence
1 Timothy1 occurrence
2 Timothy4 occurrences
Philemon1 occurrence
Hebrews8 occurrences
James3 occurrences
2 Peter1 occurrence
1 John14 occurrences
2 John1 occurrence
3 John1 occurrence
Revelation46 occurrences
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0: their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).