Genesis 4:23
And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
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Hear
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Revelation 13:9
If any man have an ear, let him hear.
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1010 verses
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33 verses
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11 verses
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Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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שָׁמַע
shâmaʻ · shaw-mah'
362 times translated as this KJV form1,160 total Strong's occurrences
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: × attentively, call (gather) together, × carefully, × certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, × diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear(-ken, tell), × indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim(-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, × surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth), witness.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 4:23Strong's last: Malachi 2:2
Open full H8085 profile →ἀκούω
akoúō · ak-oo'-o
136 times translated as this KJV form476 total Strong's occurrences
to hear (in various senses)
Strong's KJV usage: :--give (in the) audience (of), come (to the ears), (shall) hear(-er, -ken), be noised, be reported, understand.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 10:14Strong's last: Revelation 13:9
Open full G191 profile →עָנָה
ʻânâh · aw-naw'
29 times translated as this KJV form329 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to eye or (generally) to heed, i.e. pay attention; by implication, to respond; by extension to begin to speak; specifically to sing, shout, testify, announce
Strong's KJV usage: give account, afflict (by mistake for 6031), (cause to, give) answer, bring low (by mistake for 6031), cry, hear, Leannoth, lift up, say, × scholar, (give a) shout, sing (together by course), speak, testify, utter, (bear) witness. See also 1042, 1043.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 8:18Strong's last: Zechariah 13:9
Open full H6030 profile →שְׁמַע
shᵉmaʻ · shem-ah'
4 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
Strong's KJV usage: hear, obey.
Strong's first: Daniel 3:5Strong's last: Daniel 5:23
Open full H8086 profile →παρακούω
parakoúō · par-ak-oo'-o
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to mishear, i.e. (by implication) to disobey
Strong's KJV usage: :--neglect to hear.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 18:17Strong's last: Matthew 18:17
Open full G3878 profile →אָזַן
ʼâzan · aw-zan'
2 times translated as this KJV form41 total Strong's occurrences
to broaden out the ear (with the hand), i.e. (by implication) to listen
Strong's KJV usage: give (perceive by the) ear, hear(-ken). See 239.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 135:17Strong's last: Psalms 140:6
Open full H238 profile →διακούομαι
diakoúomai · dee-ak-oo'-om-ahee
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
to hear throughout, i.e. patiently listen (to a prisoner's plea)
Strong's KJV usage: :--hear.
Strong's first: Acts 23:35Strong's last: Acts 23:35
Open full G1251 profile →εἰσακούω
eisakoúō · ice-ak-oo'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
to listen to
Strong's KJV usage: :--hear.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 14:21Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 14:21
Open full G1522 profile →φωνή
phōnḗ · fo-nay'
1 times translated as this KJV form151 total Strong's occurrences
a tone (articulate, bestial or artificial); by implication, an address (for any purpose), saying or language
Strong's KJV usage: :--noise, sound, voice.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: John 10:27Strong's last: John 10:27
Open full G5456 profile →הַשְׁמָעוּת
hashmâʻûwth · hashmaw-ooth'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
announcement
Strong's KJV usage: to cause to hear.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 24:26Strong's last: Ezekiel 24:26
Open full H2045 profile →קָשַׁב
qâshab · kaw-shab'
1 times translated as this KJV form46 total Strong's occurrences
to prick up the ears, i.e. hearken
Strong's KJV usage: attend, (cause to) hear(-ken), give heed, incline, mark (well), regard.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 10:17Strong's last: Psalms 10:17
Open full H7181 profile →שֵׁמַע
shêmaʻ · shay'-mah
1 times translated as this KJV form18 total Strong's occurrences
something heard, i.e. a sound, rumor, announcement; abstractly, audience
Strong's KJV usage: bruit, fame, hear(-ing), loud, report, speech, tidings.
Strong's first: Psalms 18:44Strong's last: Psalms 18:44
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H8085
Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.
H8085
Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH.
no direct Strong's tag
Should ye not hear the words which the LORD hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the south and the plain?
H8085
But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
H8085
Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.
H8085
Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts:
H8085
Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts:
H8085
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.
H6030
And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the LORD their God, and will hear them.
H6030
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
English meaning and historical usage.
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hear
HEAR, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive heard, but more correctly heared.
[Latin audio; auris.]
1. To perceive by the ear; to feel an impression of sound by the proper organs; as, to hear sound; to hear a voice; to hear words.
2. To give audience or allowance to speak.
He sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ. Acts 24:4.
3. To attend; to listen; to obey.
Today, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your heart. Psalms 95:7.
4. To attend favorably; to regard.
They think they shall be heard for their much speaking. Matthew 6:7.
5. To grant an answer to prayer.
I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice. Psalms 116:1.
6. To attend to the facts, evidence, and arguments in a cause between parties; to try in a court of law or equity. The cause was heard and determined at the last term; or, it was heard at the last term, and will be determined at the next. Song of Solomon 2:14Sam.15.
7. To acknowledge a title; a Latin phrase.
HEAR'st thou submissive, but a lowly birth.
8. To be a hearer of; to sit under the preaching of; as, what minister do you hear? [A colloquial use of the word.]
9. To learn.
I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him. John 8:43.
10. To approve and embrace.
They speak of the world, and the world heareth them. l John 4:1.
To hear a bird sing, to receive private communication.
HEAR, verb intransitive To enjoy the sense or faculty of perceiving sound. He is deaf, he cannot hear
1. To listen; to hearken; to attend.
He hears with solicitude.
2. To be told; to receive by report.
I hear there are divisions among you, and I partly believe it. 1 Corinthians 11:18.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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