ous · ear

What it means

ous (οὖς) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “ear”.

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 organ of hearing, on the sides of the head.
2. Being able to hear and understand: "whoever can hear, let him hear".

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

How it is translated

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

• ears ×22
• ear ×13
• hearing ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×7
• Mark×4
• Luke×7
• Acts×5
• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×2
• James×1
• 1 Peter×1
• Revelation×8

• Matthew 10:27

  What I tell you in the dark, say in the light; and what you hear in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.

• Matthew 11:15

  The one who has ears, let him hear.

• Matthew 13:9

  The one who has ears, let him hear.”

• Matthew 13:15

  For the heart of this people has grown dull, and with their ears they have heard with difficulty, and they have closed their eyes, so that they do not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I will heal them.’

• Matthew 13:16

  But happy are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear.

• Matthew 13:43

  Then the righteous will shine out like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. The one who has ears, let him hear.

• Mark 4:9

  And he was saying, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”

• Mark 4:23

  If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”

• Mark 7:33

  And taking him aside from the crowd he put his fingers into his ears, and after spitting, he touched his tongue;

• Mark 8:18

  Having eyes, do you not see, and having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember,

• Luke 1:44

  For look, when the sound of your greeting came into my ears, the baby leaped in joy in my womb.

• Luke 4:21

  And he began to say to them, “Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”

• Luke 8:8

  And other seed fell into the good soil, and when it had grown, it produced fruit a hundredfold.” As he said these things, he called out, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”

• Luke 9:44

  “You, put these words into your ears: for the Son of Man is about to be handed over into the hands of people.”

• Luke 12:3

  Therefore whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.

• Luke 14:35

  It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile; they throw it out. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”

• Luke 22:50

  And a certain one of them struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his right ear.

• Acts 7:51

  Stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, you do also.

• Acts 7:57

  But crying out with a loud voice, they covered their ears and rushed with one mind at him.

• Acts 11:22

  And the word about them was heard in the ears of the assembly that was in Jerusalem, and they sent out Barnabas as far as Antioch.

• Acts 28:27

  For the heart of this people has grown dull, and with their ears they have heard with difficulty, and they have closed their eyes, so that they do not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I will heal them.”’

• Romans 11:8

  as it is written: God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes so as not to see and ears so as not to hear, to this day.

• 1 Corinthians 2:9

  But as it is written: What eye did not see and ear did not hear and did not come up into the heart of man, what things God prepared for those who love him.

• 1 Corinthians 12:16

  And if the ear says, Because I am not an eye, I am not part of the body, it is not for this reason any less part of the body.

• James 5:4

  Look, the wages of the workers who mowed your fields, withheld by you, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Tsevaot.

• 1 Peter 3:12

  For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are open to their supplication, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.

• Revelation 2:7

  Whoever has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. 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

  Whoever has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. The one who conquers will never be harmed by the second death.

• Revelation 2:17

  Whoever has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written that no one knows except the one who receives it.

• Revelation 2:29

  Whoever has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.

• Revelation 3:6

  Whoever has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.

• Revelation 3:13

  Whoever has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.

• Revelation 3:22

  Whoever has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.

• Revelation 13:9

  If anyone has an ear, let him hear.

And 2 more times.