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Strong G202ἀκροατής

hearer

Transliteration
akroatēs
Pronunciation
ak-ro-at-ace'
Morphology
Greek Noun (Masculine)

Definition

From ἀκροάομαι akroaomai (to listen; apparently an intensive of G191); a hearer (merely): - hearer.

Detailed definition

ἀκροατής, οῦ, ὁ (see supr.)
[in LXX: Isa.3:3 (לַחַשׁ), Sir.3:29;]
a hearer: Rom.2:13, Jas.1:22, 23, 25.†
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In the Bible

Strong G202 appears in 4 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • hearer4

First verses

  1. Romans 2:13
    (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
  2. James 1:22
    But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
  3. James 1:23
    For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
  4. James 1:25
    But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ἀκρο-ᾱτής, οῦ, ὁ,
hearer, of persons who come to hear a public speaker, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.38, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 536c, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.7, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 286, etc.)]; disciple, pupil, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1274a29, compare “EN” 1095a2.)]
II reader, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Theseus” 1, “Lys.” 12.)]