akoē · report, hearing

What it means

akoē (ἀκοή) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “report, hearing”.

What is heard: news, report; also the ear, hearing.

How to say it

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

1. The ability to perceive sounds and words; repeated, it stresses truly listening.
2. The organ through which sounds and words come in.
3. What is preached and people listen to: the word proclaimed.
4. News about someone passing from mouth to mouth.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• hearing ×8
• ears ×4
• report ×4
• heard ×3
• You will indeed hear ×2
• reports ×2
• message ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×4
• Mark×3
• Luke×1
• John×1
• Acts×2
• Romans×3
• 1 Corinthians×2
• Galatians×2
• 1 Thessalonians×1
• 2 Timothy×2
• Hebrews×2
• 2 Peter×1

• Matthew 4:24

  And the report about him went out into all Syria; and they brought to him all those who were ill, afflicted with various diseases and torments, the demon-possessed and the moonstruck and paralytics, and he healed them.

• Matthew 13:14

  And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says, ‘You will indeed hear and never understand, and you will indeed see and never perceive.

• Matthew 14:1

  At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the report about Jesus,

• Matthew 24:6

  And you will hear of wars and reports of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for it must happen, but the end is not yet.

• Mark 1:28

  And the report about him went out at once everywhere into all the surrounding region of Galilee.

• Mark 7:35

  And his ears were opened, and the binding of his tongue was loosed, and he was speaking plainly.

• Mark 13:7

  And when you hear of wars and reports of wars, do not be alarmed; this must happen, but the end is not yet.

• Luke 7:1

  When he had completed all his words in the hearing of the people, he went into Capernaum.

• John 12:38

  so that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke: “Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

• Acts 17:20

  For you are bringing some strange things to our ears; so we want to know what these things mean.”

• Acts 28:26

  saying, ‘Go to this people and say, “You will indeed hear and never understand, and you will indeed see and never perceive.

• Romans 10:16

  But not all obeyed the good news; for Isaiah says: Lord, who has believed our message?

• Romans 10:17

  So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of the Messiah.

• 1 Corinthians 12:17

  If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the smell be?

• Galatians 3:2

  This only I want to learn from you: did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?

• Galatians 3:5

  So the one who supplies to you the Spirit and works miracles among you, does he do it by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?

• 1 Thessalonians 2:13

  And for this reason we also thank God unceasingly, that when you received the word you heard from us, the word of God, you accepted it not as the word of human beings but as it truly is, the word of God, which also is at work in you who believe.

• 2 Timothy 4:3

  For there will be a time when they will not put up with sound teaching, but with itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers according to their own desires,

• 2 Timothy 4:4

  and they will turn away their ears from the truth and turn aside to myths.

• Hebrews 4:2

  For we too have had the good news announced to us, just as they did; but the word they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who heard it.

• Hebrews 5:11

  About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.

• 2 Peter 2:8

  (for by what he saw and heard, that righteous man, living among them, was tormenting his righteous soul day after day with their lawless deeds);

And 2 more times.