ἀκούω

(on the use of the present in a perfect sense cf. Winers Grammar, 274f (258); Buttmann, 203 (176)); imperfect ἤκουον; future (in best Greek usage) ἀκούσομαι, Jn 5:25 R G L, 28 R G L; Acts 3:22; Acts 7:37 R G; ; (); Acts 25:22; ; (Rom 10:14 Tdf.), and (a later form) ἀκούσω, Mt 12:19; Mt 13:14 (both from the Sept.); (Jn 10:16; Jn 16:13 Tr WH marginal reading; Acts 28:26); Rom 10:14 (R G); and T Tr WH in Jn 5:25, Jn 5:28 (cf. Winers Grammar, 82 (79); Buttmann, 53 (46) (Veitch, under the word)); (1 aorist ἤκουσα, Jn 3:32, etc.); perfect ἀκήκοα; passive (present ἀκούομαι; 1 future ἀκουσθήσομαι; 1 aorist ἠκούσθην; (from Homer down); to hear.
I. absolutely
1. to be endowed with the faculty of hearing (not deaf): Mk 7:37; Lk 7:22; Mt 11:5.
2. to attend to (use the faculty of hearing), consider what is or has been said. So in exhortations: ἀκούετε, Mk 4:3; ἀκούσατε, Jas 2:5; ὁ ἔχων ὦτα ἀκούειν ἀκουέτω, Mt 11:15; Mt 13:9 (in both T WH omit; Tr brackets ἀκούειν); Mk 4:23; Lk 14:35 (34); ὁ ἔχων οὖς ἀκουσάτω, Rev 2:7, Rev 2:11, Rev 2:17, Rev 2:29; Rev 3:6, Rev 3:13, Rev 3:22, etc.
3. tropically, to understand, perceive the sense of what is said: Mt 13:15; Mk 8:18; 1 Cor 14:2.
II. with an object (Buttmann, § 132, 17; Winer's Grammar, 199 (187f));
1. ἀκούω τί, to hear something;
a. to perceive by the ear what is announced in one's presence (to hear immediately): τήν φωνήν, Mt 12:19; Jn 3:8; Rev 4:1; Rev 5:11; Rev 18:4; Acts 22:9, etc.; τόν ἀσπασμόν, Lk 1:41 (cf. Lk 1:44); Γαλιλαίαν, the name 'Galilee,' Lk 23:6 (T WH omits; Tr mrg; brackets Γαλιλαίαν; cf. Buttmann, 166 (145)); ἀνάστασιν νεκρῶν, the phrase 'ἀνάστασιν νεκρῶν,' Acts 17:32; τόν λόγον, Mk 5:36 (R G L) (on this passage see παρακούω, 2); Mt 19:22; Jn 5:24, etc.; τούς λόγους, Acts 2:22; Acts 5:24; Mt 7:24; ῤήματα, 2 Cor 12:4; τί λέγουσιν, Mt 21:16; passive, Mt 2:18; Rev 18:22f; τί ἐκ τίνος, 2 Cor 12:6 (R G); followed by ὅτι (Buttmann, 300 (257f)), Acts 22:2; Mk 16:11; Jn 4:42; Jn 14:28.
b. to get by hearinq, learn (from the mouth of the teacher or narrator): Acts 15:17; Mt 10:27 (ὁ εἰς τό οὖς ἀκούετε, what is taught you secret); Rom 15:21; Eph 1:13; Col 1:6; Jn 14:24; 1 Jn 2:7, 1 Jn 2:24; 1 Jn 3:11; Χριστόν i. e. to become acquainted with Christ from apostolic teaching, Eph 4:21 (cf. μαθεῖν τόν Χριστόν, Eph 4:20 (Buttmann, 166 (144) note; Winer's Grammar, 199 (187) note)); passive, Lk 12:3; Heb 2:1; τί with the genitive of person from whom one hears, Acts 1:4; τί παρά τίνος, Jn 8:26, Jn 8:40; Jn 15:15; Acts 10:22; Acts 28:22; 2 Tim 2:2 (Thucydides 6, 93; Xenophon, an. 1, 2, 5 (here Dindorf omits παρά); Plato, rep. 6, p. 506 d., others; (Buttmann, 186 (145); Winer's Grammar, 199 (188))); (παρά τίνος, without an object expressed, Jn 1:40 (41)); ἐκ τίνος, Jn 12:34 (ἐκ τοῦ νόμου, from attendance on its public reading); ἀπό with the genitive of person, 1 Jn 1:5; with περί τίνος added, Acts 9:13; followed by ὅτι, Mt 5:21, Mt 5:27, Mt 5:33, Mt 5:38, Mt 5:43.
c. ἀκούω τί, a thing comes to one's ears, to find out (by hearsay), learn, (hear ((of)) mediately): with the accusative of thing, τά ἔργα, Mt 11:2; ὅσα ἐποίει, Mk 3:8 (Treg. text ποιεῖ); πολέμους, Lk 21:9; Mt 24:6; Mk 13:7; to learn, absol, viz. what has just been mentioned: Mt 2:3; Mt 22:7 (R L); Mk 2:17; Mk 3:21; Gal 1:13; Eph 1:15; Col 1:4; Phm 1:5, etc. followed by ὅτι, Mt 2:22; Mt 4:12; Mt 20:30; Mk 6:55; Mk 10:47; Jn 4:47; Jn 9:35; Jn 11:6; Jn 12:12; Gal 1:23; περί τίνος, Mk 7:25; τί περί τίνος, Lk 9:9; Lk 16:2; Lk 23:8 (R G L); followed by an accusative with participle (Buttmann, 303 (260)): Lk 4:23; Acts 7:12; 2 Thess 3:11; 3 Jn 1:4; followed by an accusative with an infinitive in two instances (cf. Buttmann, the passage cited): Jn 12:18; 1 Cor 11:18. passive: Acts 11:22 (ἠκούσθη ὁ λόγος εἰς τά ὦτα τῆς ἐκκλησίας was brought to the ears); 1 Cor 5:1 (ἀκούεται πορνεία ἐν ὑμῖν); Mt 28:14 (ἐάν ἀκουσθῇ τοῦτο ἐπί (L Tr WH marginal reading ὑπό) τοῦ ἡγεμόνος); Mk 2:1; Jn 9:32 ἠκούσθη ὅτι.
d. to give ear to teaching or teacher: τούς λόγους, Mt 10:14; to follow with attentive hearing, τόν λόγον, Jn 8:43; τά ῤήματα τοῦ Θεοῦ, Jn 8:47.
e. to comprehend, understand, (like Latin audio): Mk 4:33; Gal 4:21 ((Lachmann marginal reading ἀναγινώσκετε) yet cf. Meyer at the passage); (Gen 11:7).
2. ἀκούειν is not joined with the genitive of the object unless one hear the person or thing with his own ears (Buttmann, 166 (114));
a. with the genitive of a person; simply; α. to perceive anyone's voice: οὗ, i. e., of Christ, whose voice is heard in the instruction of his messengers (Lk 10:16), Rom 10:14 (Winer's Grammar, 199 (187) note{2}), β. to give ear to one, listen, hearken, (German ihm zuhoren, ihn anhoren): Mt 2:9; Mk 7:14; Mk 12:37; Lk 2:46; Lk 10:16; Lk 15:1; Lk 19:48; Lk 21:38; Acts 17:32; Acts 24:24 (in both these passages τίνος περί τίνος); ; Jn 6:60. γ. to yield to, hear and obey, hear to one, (German auf einen horen): Mt 17:5 (Mk 9:7; Lk 9:35); Jn 3:29; Jn 10:8; Acts 3:22; Acts 4:19; Acts 7:37 (R G); 1 Jn 4:5f. Hence, δ. its use by John in the sense to listen to, have regard to, of God answering the prayers of men: Jn 9:31; Jn 11:41; 1 Jn 5:14f (the Sept. render שָׁמַע by εἰσακούω). ε. with the genitive of person and participle (Buttmann, 301 (259)): Mk 14:58; Lk 18:36; Jn 1:37; Jn 7:32; Acts 2:6, Acts 2:11; Rev 16:5; ἤκουσα τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου λέγοντος, Rev 16:7 G L T (Tr WH the Sinaiticus manuscript), a poetic personification; cf. DeWette at the passage, Winers Grammar, § 30, 11.
b. with the genitive of a thing: τῆς βλασφημίας, Mk 14:64 (Lachmann τήν βλασφημίαν, as in Mt 26:65; the accusative merely denotes the object; τῆς βλασφημίας is equiv, in sense to αὐτοῦ βλασφημοῦντος (cf. Buttmann, 166 (145))); τῶν λόγων, Lk 6:47 (Mt 7:24 τούς λόγους); Jn 7:40 (L T Tr WH the Sinaiticus manuscript, but R G τόν λόγον (cf. Buttmann, as above)); συμφωνίας καί χορῶν, Lk 15:25; τοῦ στεναγμοῦ, Acts 7:34; τῆς ἀπολογίας, Acts 22:1. The frequent phrase ἀκούειν τῆς φωνῆς (equivalent to שָׁמַע, Ex 18:19) means α. to perceive the distinct words of a voice: Jn 5:25, Jn 5:28; Acts 9:7; Acts 11:7; Acts 22:7; Heb 3:7, Heb 3:15; Heb 4:7; Rev 14:13; Rev 21:3. β. to yield obedience to the voice: Jn 5:25 (οἱ ἀκούσαντες namely, τῆς φωνῆς); Jn 10:16, Jn 10:27; Jn 18:37; Rev 3:20. In Jn 12:47; Jn 18:37; Lk 6:47; Acts 22:1, it is better to consider the pronoun μου which precedes as a possessive genitive rather than, with Buttmann, 167 (145f), to assume a double genitive of the object, one of the person and one of the thing. The Johannean phrase ἀκούειν παρά τοῦ Θεοῦ, or τί παρά Θεοῦ, signifies a. to perceive in the soul the inward communication of God: Jn 6:45.
b. to be taught by God's inward communication: Jn 8:26, Jn 8:40 (so, too, the simple ἀκούειν in Jn 8:30); to be taught by the devil, according to the reading of L T Tr WH, ἠκούσατε παρά τοῦ πατρός, in Jn 8:38. For the rest cf. Buttmann, 165 (144ff); 301 (258ff) (Compare: διακούω, εἰσακούω, ἐπακούω, παρακούω, προακούω, ὑπακούω.)