For an Informed Love of God
Bill Mounce
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ἀκούω
Vocabulary form:
ajkouvw
Definition:
I hear, learn, obey, understand
Erasmian:
Modern:
Frequency:
428
GK:
201
Root:
ajkou
Forms:
ajkouvsw, h[kousa, ajkhvkoa, -, hjkouvsqhn
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.
Notes:
ajkouvw can take a direct object in either the genitive or accusative.
Biblical Concordance
| 1 John 4:6 | We are from God. The person who knows God listens (akouei | ἀκούει | pres act ind 3 sg) to us, but whoever is not from God does (akouei | ἀκούει | pres act ind 3 sg) not listen (akouei | ἀκούει | pres act ind 3 sg) to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error. |
| 1 John 5:14 | And this is the confidence we have as we approach him: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears (akouei | ἀκούει | pres act ind 3 sg) us. |
| 1 John 5:15 | And if we know that he hears (akouei | ἀκούει | pres act ind 3 sg) us regarding whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him. |
| 2 John 1:6 | And this is love: that we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard (ēkousate | ἠκούσατε | aor act ind 2 pl) from the beginning, that you should walk in it. |
| 3 John 1:4 | I have no greater joy than this: to hear (akouō | ἀκούω | pres act subj 1 sg) that my children are walking in the truth. |
| Revelation 1:3 | Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and those who hear (akouontes | ἀκούοντες | pres act ptcp nom pl masc) and keep what is written in it, for the time is near. |
| Revelation 1:10 | I was in the spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard (ēkousa | ἤκουσα | aor act ind 1 sg) behind me a loud voice like a trumpet, |
| Revelation 2:7 | He who has an ear, let him hear (akousatō | ἀκουσάτω | aor act imperative 3 sg) what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God. |
| Revelation 2:11 | He who has an ear, let him hear (akousatō | ἀκουσάτω | aor act imperative 3 sg) what the Spirit is saying to the churches. The one who conquers will not be harmed by the second death. |
| Revelation 2:17 | He who has an ear, let him hear (akousatō | ἀκουσάτω | aor act imperative 3 sg) what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna. And I will give him a white stone, and on that stone will be written a new name which no one can understand except the one who receives it. |
| Revelation 2:29 | He who has an ear, let him hear (akousatō | ἀκουσάτω | aor act imperative 3 sg) what the Spirit is saying to the churches. |
| Revelation 3:3 | Remember, then, what you received and heard (ēkousas | ἤκουσας | aor act ind 2 sg); obey it, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you. |
| Revelation 3:6 | He who has an ear, let him hear (akousatō | ἀκουσάτω | aor act imperative 3 sg) what the Spirit is saying to the churches. |
| Revelation 3:13 | He who has an ear, let him hear (akousatō | ἀκουσάτω | aor act imperative 3 sg) what the Spirit is saying to the churches. |
| Revelation 3:20 | Take note! I am standing at the door and knocking. If anyone hears (akousē | ἀκούσῃ | aor act subj 3 sg) my voice and opens the door, I will enter his house and eat with him, and he with me. |
| Revelation 3:22 | He who has an ear, let him hear (akousatō | ἀκουσάτω | aor act imperative 3 sg) what the Spirit is saying to the churches.” |
| Revelation 4:1 | After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard (ēkousa | ἤκουσα | aor act ind 1 sg) speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” |
| Revelation 5:11 | Then I looked, and I heard (ēkousa | ἤκουσα | aor act ind 1 sg) the voice of many angels surrounding the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and their number was ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands, |
| Revelation 5:13 | Then I (ēkousa | ἤκουσα | aor act ind 1 sg) heard (ēkousa | ἤκουσα | aor act ind 1 sg) every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying, “To the one seated on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and might forever and ever!” |
| Revelation 6:1 | Then I watched as the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard (ēkousa | ἤκουσα | aor act ind 1 sg) one of the four living creatures say with a voice like thunder, “Come!” |
| Revelation 6:3 | And when he opened the second seal, I heard (ēkousa | ἤκουσα | aor act ind 1 sg) the second living creature saying, “Come!” |
| Revelation 6:5 | And when he opened the third seal, I heard (ēkousa | ἤκουσα | aor act ind 1 sg) the third living creature saying, “Come!” And I looked, and behold, a black horse! And its rider had a pair of scales in his hand. |
| Revelation 6:6 | And I heard (ēkousa | ἤκουσα | aor act ind 1 sg) what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, but do not harm the oil and the wine!” |
| Revelation 6:7 | And when he opened the fourth seal, I heard (ēkousa | ἤκουσα | aor act ind 1 sg) the voice of the fourth living creature saying, “Come!” |
| Revelation 7:4 | And I heard (ēkousa | ἤκουσα | aor act ind 1 sg) the number of those who were sealed, one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel: |
| Revelation 8:13 | Then I looked, and I heard (ēkousa | ἤκουσα | aor act ind 1 sg) an eagle crying with a loud voice as it flew directly overhead, “Woe, woe, woe to those who live on the earth because of the blasts of the other trumpets that the three angels are about to blow!” |
| Revelation 9:13 | The sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard (ēkousa | ἤκουσα | aor act ind 1 sg) a voice from the four horns of the golden altar that is before God, |
| Revelation 9:16 | The number of mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand; I heard (ēkousa | ἤκουσα | aor act ind 1 sg) their number. |
| Revelation 9:20 | The rest of mankind, those who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands so as to give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear (akouein | ἀκούειν | pres act inf ) or walk. |
| Revelation 10:4 | And when the seven thunders had sounded, I was preparing to write but I heard (ēkousa | ἤκουσα | aor act ind 1 sg) a voice from heaven saying, “Seal up what the seven thunders have said, and do not write it down.” |
| Revelation 10:8 | Then the voice that I had heard (ēkousa | ἤκουσα | aor act ind 1 sg) from heaven spoke to me again, saying, “Go, take the scroll that is open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.” |
| Revelation 11:12 | Then they heard (ēkousan | ἤκουσαν | aor act ind 3 pl) a loud voice from heaven, saying to them, “Come up here!” And they arose to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies watched them. |
| Revelation 12:10 | Then I heard (ēkousa | ἤκουσα | aor act ind 1 sg) a loud voice in heaven saying, “Just now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ, because the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, the one who accuses them day and night before our God. |
| Revelation 13:9 | If anyone has an ear, let him hear! (akousatō | ἀκουσάτω | aor act imperative 3 sg) |
| Revelation 14:2 | And I heard (ēkousa | ἤκουσα | aor act ind 1 sg) a sound from heaven like the roar of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder. The sound I heard (ēkousa | ἤκουσα | aor act ind 1 sg) was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps, |
| Revelation 14:13 | And I heard (ēkousa | ἤκουσα | aor act ind 1 sg) a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Yes indeed!” says the Spirit, “so they can rest from their labors, because their deeds will follow them!” |
| Revelation 16:1 | Then I heard (ēkousa | ἤκουσα | aor act ind 1 sg) a loud voice from the temple declaring to the seven angels, “Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of God’s wrath.” |
| Revelation 16:5 | Then I heard (ēkousa | ἤκουσα | aor act ind 1 sg) the angel in charge of the waters say, “You are just, O Holy One, who is and who was, because you brought these judgments, |
| Revelation 16:7 | And I heard (ēkousa | ἤκουσα | aor act ind 1 sg) the altar saying, “Yes indeed, O Lord God the Almighty, true and just are your judgments!” |
| Revelation 18:4 | Then I heard (ēkousa | ἤκουσα | aor act ind 1 sg) another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive her plagues; |
| Revelation 18:22 | And the sound of harpists and musicians, flute players and trumpeters, will (akousthē | ἀκουσθῇ | aor pass subj 3 sg) never again be heard (akousthē | ἀκουσθῇ | aor pass subj 3 sg); craftsman of any trade will never again be found in you, and the sound of the mill will (akousthē | ἀκουσθῇ | aor pass subj 3 sg) never again be heard (akousthē | ἀκουσθῇ | aor pass subj 3 sg) in you; |
| Revelation 18:23 | the light of a lamp will never again shine in you, and the voice of bridegroom and bride will (akousthē | ἀκουσθῇ | aor pass subj 3 sg) never again be heard (akousthē | ἀκουσθῇ | aor pass subj 3 sg) in you; for your merchants were the great ones of the earth, and all nations were deceived by your magic spells. |
| Revelation 19:1 | After this I heard (ēkousa | ἤκουσα | aor act ind 1 sg) what sounded like the roar of a great throng in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, |
| Revelation 19:6 | Then I heard (ēkousa | ἤκουσα | aor act ind 1 sg) what sounded like the voice of a great multitude — it was like the roar of many waters, like the sound of crashing thunder — crying out, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns! |
| Revelation 21:3 | And I heard (ēkousa | ἤκουσα | aor act ind 1 sg) a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and he will be with them as their God. |
| Revelation 22:8 | I, John, am the one who heard (akouōn | ἀκούων | pres act ptcp nom sg masc) and saw these things. And when I heard (ēkousa | ἤκουσα | aor act ind 1 sg) and saw them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who was showing them to me. |
| Revelation 22:17 | The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come!” And let the one who hears (akouōn | ἀκούων | pres act ptcp nom sg masc) say, “Come!” Whoever is thirsty, let him come forward; and whoever so desires, let him receive the water of life free of charge. |
| Revelation 22:18 | I bear witness to everyone who hears (akouonti | ἀκούοντι | pres act ptcp dat sg masc) the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone should add to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book; |
Mnemonics
mnemonic
I can hear the baby coo.