Word

ἀκροατής

akroatḗs · G202 · Greek · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

hearer

(Derivative of ἀκροάομαι ‘to hear,’ not occurring in the NT) One who hears

Examples
Romans 2:13 for it is not the hearers of the Law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the Law who will be justified.
James 1:22 But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not just hearers who deceive themselves.
James 1:23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror;

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

3 occurrences in 3 groups

ἐπιλησμονήforgetting 1
λόγοςword, saying, message 1
νόμοςlaw, the Law 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

δίκαιοςrighteous 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

τὶςsomeone 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Contrasting words 1 word

ποιητής poiētḗs · G4163 · doer, poet, writer: James 1:22-25 explicitly contrasts ἀκροατής (hearer only) with ποιητής (doer), making this a genuine lexical antithesis between passive reception and active practice.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Hearer24.56: In James 1:22, believers are told to “prove yourselves doers of the word, and not just hearers (akroataí) who deceive themselves,” where the noun names one who merely listens without acting.

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἀκροατήςakroatḗs · G202ἀκροατήριον akroatḗrion · G201 · audience hall, auditorium · 1×ἐπακροάομαι epakroáomai · G1874 · to listen to · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (οῦ, ὁ (ἀκροάομαι (see the preceding word)), a hearer: τοῦ νόμου, Rom 2:13; τοῦ λόγου,…

(οῦ, ὁ (ἀκροάομαι (see the preceding word)), a hearer: τοῦ νόμου, Rom 2:13; τοῦ λόγου, Jas 1:22f, 25. (Thucydides, Isocrates, Plato, Demosthenes, Plutarch.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Hear4 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0