ἀκροατής
akroatēs · hearer
Greek word · Strong’s number G202 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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akroatēs (ἀκροατής) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “hearer”.
Someone who listens.
How to say it
a·kro·a·tēs
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- One who takes in with the ears what is said.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- hearer ×2
- hearers ×2
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Romans 2:13
For it is not the hearers of law who are righteous before God, but the doers of law will be declared righteous.
- James 1:22
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
- James 1:23
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking closely at the face he was born with in a mirror;
- James 1:25
But the one who looks intently into the perfect law, the law of freedom, and remains in it, becoming not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be happy in his doing.