εἰσακούω
to obey
‘to obey’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
Voice
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
- Middle deponent
- Middle in form but active in meaning.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 2 times (40%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (20%)
- Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (20%)
- Verb, Future, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (20%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 5 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G1522 appears — 5 distinct verses across 5 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 1 verse
Luke 1 verse
Acts 1 verse
1 Corinthians 1 verse
Hebrews 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, εισακουω (eisakoúō) means “to obey.” It occurs a mere 5 verses across Scripture. First canonically at Matthew 6:7, it enters the text early. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. It shares a root with εις, εισαγω and εισδεχομαι. Dig into 5-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1522 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,648
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,648 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.
- Gospels 2 verses · 40%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 40%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 20%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 20%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Is heard 2×
- American Standard Version: Is heard 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Has been heard 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Has been heard 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1522 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1522 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1522 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1522 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to give heed to, comply with admonition, to obey
- to listen to, assent to, a request, to be heard, have request granted
Word origin
Derived from εις (eis) (G1519) — into.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G1522 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| εἰσηκούσθη eisēkoústhē | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Luke 1:13 | 2 |
| εἰσακουσθήσονται eisakousthḗsontai | Verb, Future, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Matthew 6:7 | 1 |
| εἰσακουσθεὶς eisakoustheìs | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Hebrews 5:7 | 1 |
| εἰσακούσονταί eisakoúsontaí | Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | 1 Corinthians 14:21 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1522, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- εισαγω eiságō G1521 to bring in
- εισδεχομαι eisdéchomai G1523 to receive
- εισειμι eíseimi G1524 to go in
- εισερχομαι eisérchomai G1525 to enter
- εισκαλεω eiskaléō G1528 to invite
- εισοδος eísodos G1529 entrance
- εισπηδαω eispēdáō G1530 to rush in
- εισπορευομαι eisporeúomai G1531 to enter
- ειστρεχω eistréchō G1532 to run in
- εισφερω eisphérō G1533 to bring in
- εν en G1722 in
- εσοπτρον ésoptron G2072 mirror
- εσω ésō G2080 within
- σκυβαλον skýbalon G4657 refuse
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 16 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word εισακουω appears 213 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 204 verses in 25 books.
- 213
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 204
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 25 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 25 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 21:17 εἰςἀκούω
- Exodus 2:24 εἰςἀκούω
- Numbers 14:22 εἰςἀκούω
- Deuteronomy 1:43 εἰςἀκούω
- Judges 2:2 εἰςἀκούω
- 2 Samuel 12:18 εἰςἀκούω
- 1 Kings 3:11 εἰςἀκούω
- 2 Kings 10:6 εἰςἀκούω
- 2 Chronicles 6:21 εἰςἀκούω
- Ezra 19:17 εἰςἀκούω
- Esther 1:12 εἰςἀκούω
- Job 9:15 εἰςἀκούω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1522) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 204. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 21:17 εἰςἀκούω God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar? Don't be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
- Genesis 34:17 εἰςἀκούω But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone."
- Genesis 34:24 εἰςἀκούω All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.
- Genesis 42:21 εἰςἀκούω They said one to another, "We are most assuredly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn't listen. Therefore this distress has come on us."
- Genesis 42:22 εἰςἀκούω Reuben answered them, saying, "Didn't I tell you, saying, 'Don't sin against the child,' and you wouldn't listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required."
- Exodus 2:24 εἰςἀκούω God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
- Exodus 3:18 εἰςἀκούω They will listen to your voice, and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh, our God.'
- Exodus 4:1 εἰςἀκούω Moses answered, "But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, 'Yahweh has not appeared to you.'"
- Exodus 4:8 εἰςἀκούω "It will happen, if they will neither believe you nor listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.
- Exodus 4:9 εἰςἀκούω It will happen, if they will not believe even these two signs, neither listen to your voice, that you shall take of the water of the river, and pour it on the dry land. The water which you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land."
- Exodus 5:2 εἰςἀκούω Pharaoh said, "Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don't know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go."
- Exodus 6:5 εἰςἀκούω Moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant.
- Exodus 6:9 εἰςἀκούω Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn't listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
- Exodus 6:12 εἰςἀκούω Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, "Behold, the children of Israel haven't listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, who am of uncircumcised lips?"
- Exodus 6:30 εἰςἀκούω Moses said before Yahweh, "Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh listen to me?"
- Exodus 7:4 εἰςἀκούω But Pharaoh will not listen to you, and I will lay my hand on Egypt, and bring forth my hosts, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.
- Exodus 7:13 εἰςἀκούω Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he didn't listen to them; as Yahweh had spoken.
- Exodus 7:16 εἰςἀκούω You shall tell him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, "Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness:" and, behold, until now you haven't listened.
- Exodus 7:22 εἰςἀκούω The magicians of Egypt did in like manner with their enchantments; and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he didn't listen to them; as Yahweh had spoken.
- Exodus 8:11 εἰςἀκούω The frogs shall depart from you, and from your houses, and from your servants, and from your people. They shall remain in the river only."
- Exodus 8:15 εἰςἀκούω But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn't listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.
- Exodus 9:12 εἰςἀκούω Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he didn't listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken to Moses.
- Exodus 11:9 εἰςἀκούω Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh won't listen to you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt."
- Exodus 16:7 εἰςἀκούω and in the morning, then you shall see the glory of Yahweh; because he hears your murmurings against Yahweh. Who are we, that you murmur against us?"
- Exodus 16:8 εἰςἀκούω Moses said, "Now Yahweh shall give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you; because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh."
- Exodus 16:9 εἰςἀκούω Moses said to Aaron, "Tell all the congregation of the children of Israel, 'Come near before Yahweh, for he has heard your murmurings.'"
- Exodus 16:12 εἰςἀκούω "I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, 'At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread: and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God.'"
- Exodus 16:20 εἰςἀκούω Notwithstanding they didn't listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became foul: and Moses was angry with them.
- Exodus 16:28 εἰςἀκούω Yahweh said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
- Exodus 22:22 εἰςἀκούω "You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.
- Exodus 22:26 εἰςἀκούω If you take your neighbor's garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,
- Exodus 23:21 εἰςἀκούω Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don't provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.
- Numbers 14:22 εἰςἀκούω because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
- Numbers 16:8 εἰςἀκούω Moses said to Korah, Hear now, you sons of Levi:
- Numbers 20:16 εἰςἀκούω and when we cried to Yahweh, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of your border.
- Numbers 21:3 εἰςἀκούω Yahweh listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and the name of the place was called Hormah.
- Numbers 27:20 εἰςἀκούω You shall put of your honor on him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may obey.
- Deuteronomy 1:43 εἰςἀκούω So I spoke to you, and you didn't listen; but you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill-country.
- Deuteronomy 1:45 εἰςἀκούω You returned and wept before Yahweh; but Yahweh didn't listen to your voice, nor gave ear to you.
- Deuteronomy 3:26 εἰςἀκούω But Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and didn't listen to me; and Yahweh said to me, Let it suffice you; speak no more to me of this matter.
- Deuteronomy 4:30 εἰςἀκούω When you are in oppression, and all these things are come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God, and listen to his voice:
- Deuteronomy 9:19 εἰςἀκούω For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, with which Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened to me that time also.
- Deuteronomy 9:23 εἰςἀκούω When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you didn't believe him, nor listen to his voice.
- Deuteronomy 10:10 εἰςἀκούω I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights: and Yahweh listened to me that time also; Yahweh would not destroy you.
- Deuteronomy 11:13 εἰςἀκούω It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
- Deuteronomy 13:9 εἰςἀκούω but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
- Deuteronomy 15:5 εἰςἀκούω if only you diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you this day.
- Deuteronomy 21:18 εἰςἀκούω If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them;
- Deuteronomy 23:6 εἰςἀκούω You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.
- Deuteronomy 26:7 εἰςἀκούω and we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers, and Yahweh heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil, and our oppression;
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1522) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
