ἀκούω | Bill Mounce

Vocabulary Form

ἀκούω

Definition

I hear, learn, obey, understand

Erasmian

Modern

Root

ἀκου

Frequency

428

201

Forms

ἀκούσω, ἤκουσα, ἀκήκοα, -, ἠκούσθην

Cognates

Acoustics (ajkoustikovV) is the science of sound.

Mnemonics

I hear there is to be a coup.

Mnemonic Singing

My faith looks up to thee,
thou Lamb of Calvary,
Savior divine;
now hear me while I pray,
take all my guilt away,
O let me from this day be wholly thine.

Song

Notes

ἀκούω can take a direct object in either the genitive or accusative.

Biblical Concordance

John 12:34	The crowd responded, “We have heard (ēkousamen \| ἠκούσαμεν \| aor act ind 1 pl) from the law that the Christ is to remain forever; so how is it that you are saying that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”
John 12:47	If anyone hears (akousē \| ἀκούσῃ \| aor act subj 3 sg) my words and does not keep them, I am not the one who will judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.
John 14:24	The one who does not love me does not keep my words; and the word you are hearing (akouete \| ἀκούετε \| pres act ind 2 pl) is not mine, but is from the Father’s who sent me.
John 14:28	You heard (ēkousate \| ἠκούσατε \| aor act ind 2 pl) me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come back to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
John 15:15	No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all that I have heard (ēkousa \| ἤκουσα \| aor act ind 1 sg) from my Father I have made known to you.
John 16:13	But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak on his own, but will speak only what he hears (akousei \| ἀκούσει \| fut act ind 3 sg), and he will tell you things yet to come.
John 18:21	Why do you question me? Question those who have heard (akēkootas \| ἀκηκοότας \| perf act ptcp acc pl masc) as to what I said to them; they know what I said.”
John 18:37	Therefore Pilate said to him, “So you are a king, then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king! The reason for which I was born and have come into the world, is that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens (akouei \| ἀκούει \| pres act ind 3 sg) to my voice.”
John 19:8	Now when Pilate heard (ēkousen \| ἤκουσεν \| aor act ind 3 sg) this statement, he became even more afraid.
John 19:13	On hearing (akousas \| ἀκούσας \| aor act ptcp nom sg masc) these words, Pilate brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge’s bench in the place called “Stone Pavement,” or in Hebrew, “Gabbatha.”
John 21:7	Then that disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” When (akousas \| ἀκούσας \| aor act ptcp nom sg masc) Simon Peter heard (akousas \| ἀκούσας \| aor act ptcp nom sg masc) that it was the Lord, he tucked in his outer garment (for he was wearing nothing underneath), and jumped into the sea.
Acts 1:4	While he was with them, he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to await the promise of the Father, which, he said, “you heard (ēkousate \| ἠκούσατε \| aor act ind 2 pl) from me;
Acts 2:6	But when this sound was heard the crowd gathered, and they were perplexed, because each one was hearing (ēkouon \| ἤκουον \| imperf act ind 3 pl) them speak in his own language.
Acts 2:8	And how do (akouomen \| ἀκούομεν \| pres act ind 1 pl) we hear (akouomen \| ἀκούομεν \| pres act ind 1 pl), each of us in his own language to which he was born?
Acts 2:11	Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians — we hear (akouomen \| ἀκούομεν \| pres act ind 1 pl) them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.”
Acts 2:22	“Men of Israel, hear (akousate \| ἀκούσατε \| aor act imperative 2 pl) these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know —
Acts 2:33	So then, exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you are both seeing and hearing (akouete \| ἀκούετε \| pres act ind 2 pl).
Acts 2:37	Now when they heard (akousantes \| ἀκούσαντες \| aor act ptcp nom pl masc) this they were cut to the heart, and they said to Peter and the other apostles, “My brothers, what shall we do?”
Acts 3:22	Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet from among your brothers, as he raised me. You (akousesthe \| ἀκούσεσθε \| fut mid ind 2 pl) must (akousesthe \| ἀκούσεσθε \| fut mid ind 2 pl) obey (akousesthe \| ἀκούσεσθε \| fut mid ind 2 pl) him in all things whatsoever he speaks to you.
Acts 3:23	And it will be that every soul who does (akousē \| ἀκούσῃ \| aor act subj 3 sg) not obey (akousē \| ἀκούσῃ \| aor act subj 3 sg) that prophet will be destroyed from among the people.’
Acts 4:4	And many of those who had heard (akousantōn \| ἀκουσάντων \| aor act ptcp gen pl masc) the word believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand.
Acts 4:19	But Peter and John said in answer to them, “Whether it is right before God to (akouein \| ἀκούειν \| pres act inf ) obey (akouein \| ἀκούειν \| pres act inf ) you rather than God, you must judge,
Acts 4:20	for we cannot help speaking of the things we have seen and heard.” (ēkousamen \| ἠκούσαμεν \| aor act ind 1 pl)
Acts 4:24	When (akousantes \| ἀκούσαντες \| aor act ptcp nom pl masc) they heard (akousantes \| ἀκούσαντες \| aor act ptcp nom pl masc) this, they lifted their voices together to God and said, “Sovereign Lord, you who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and everything that is in them,
Acts 5:5	When Ananias heard (akouōn \| ἀκούων \| pres act ptcp nom sg masc) these words, he fell down and breathed his last. Great fear gripped all who heard (akouontas \| ἀκούοντας \| pres act ptcp acc pl masc) about it.