ἀκούω akoúō

Meaning

to hear (in various senses)

In the King James Version: give (in the) audience (of), come (to the ears), (shall) hear(-er, -ken), be noised, be reported, understand

Derivation: a primary verb;

Where it is used

• John 8:40 But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham never did such a thing.
• John 8:43 Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to accept My message.
• John 8:47 Whoever belongs to God hears the words of God. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”
• John 9:27 He replied, “I already told you, and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become His disciples?”
• John 9:31 We know that God does not listen to sinners, but He does listen to the one who worships Him and does His will.
• John 9:32 Never before has anyone heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind.
• John 9:35 When Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, He found the man and said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
• John 9:40 Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard this, and they asked Him, “Are we blind too?”
• John 10:3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen for his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
• John 10:8 All who came before Me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.
• John 10:16 I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them in as well, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock and one shepherd.
• John 10:20 Many of them said, “He is demon-possessed and insane. Why would you listen to Him?”
• John 10:27 My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.
• John 11:4 When Jesus heard this, He said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
• John 11:6 So on hearing that Lazarus was sick, He stayed where He was for two days,
• John 11:20 So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet Him, but Mary stayed at home.
• John 11:29 And when Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to Him.
• John 11:41 So they took away the stone. Then Jesus lifted His eyes upward and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.
• John 11:42 I knew that You always hear Me, but I say this for the benefit of the people standing here, so they may believe that You sent Me.”
• John 12:12 The next day the great crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.
• John 12:18 That is also why the crowd went out to meet Him, because they heard that He had performed this sign.
• John 12:29 The crowd standing there heard it and said that it had thundered. Others said that an angel had spoken to Him.
• John 12:34 The crowd replied, “We have heard from the Law that the Christ will remain forever. So how can You say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”
• John 12:47 As for anyone who hears My words and does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
• John 14:24 Whoever does not love Me does not keep My words. The word that you hear is not My own, but it is from the Father who sent Me.
• John 14:28 You heard Me say, ‘I am going away, and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.
• John 15:15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.
• John 16:13 However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.
• John 18:21 Why are you asking Me? Ask those who heard My message. Surely they know what I said.”
• John 18:37 “Then You are a king!” Pilate said. “You say that I am a king,” Jesus answered. “For this reason I was born and have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to My voice.”
• John 19:8 When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid,
• John 19:13 When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat on the judgment seat at a place called the Stone Pavement, which in Hebrew is Gabbatha.
• John 21:7 Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” As soon as Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his outer garment (for he had removed it) and jumped into the sea.
• Acts 1:4 And while they were gathered together, He commanded them: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift the Father promised, which you have heard Me discuss.
• Acts 2:6 And when this sound rang out, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard them speaking his own language.
• Acts 2:8 How is it then that each of us hears them in his own native language?
• Acts 2:11 both Jews and converts to Judaism; Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!”
• Acts 2:22 Men of Israel, listen to this message: Jesus of Nazareth was a man certified by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs, which God did among you through Him, as you yourselves know.
• Acts 2:33 Exalted, then, to the right hand of God, He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.
• Acts 2:37 When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”
• Acts 3:22 For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He tells you.
• Acts 3:23 Everyone who does not listen to Him will be completely cut off from among his people.’
• Acts 4:4 But many who heard the message believed, and the number of men grew to about five thousand.
• Acts 4:19 But Peter and John replied, “Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God’s sight to listen to you rather than God.
• Acts 4:20 For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”
• Acts 4:24 When the believers heard this, they lifted up their voices to God with one accord. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “You made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them.
• Acts 5:5 On hearing these words, Ananias fell down and died. And great fear came over all who heard what had happened.
• Acts 5:11 And great fear came over the whole church and all who heard about these events.
• Acts 5:21 At daybreak the apostles entered the temple courts as they had been told and began to teach the people. When the high priest and his associates arrived, they convened the Sanhedrin—the full assembly of the elders of Israel—and sent to the jail for the apostles.
• Acts 5:24 When the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests heard this account, they were perplexed as to what was happening.
• Acts 5:33 When the Council members heard this, they were enraged, and they resolved to put the apostles to death.
• Acts 6:11 Then they prompted some men to say, “We heard Stephen speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God.”
• Acts 6:14 For we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”
• Acts 7:2 And Stephen declared: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
• Acts 7:12 When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers on their first visit.
• Acts 7:34 I have indeed seen the oppression of My people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.’
• Acts 7:37 This is the same Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’
• Acts 7:54 On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were enraged, and they gnashed their teeth at him.
• Acts 8:6 The crowds all paid close attention to Philip’s message and to the signs they saw him perform.
• Acts 8:14 When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them.