ἐπακούω
to give ear to
‘to give ear to’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Person
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G1873 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
2 Corinthians 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.
επακουω — transliterated epakoúō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to give ear to.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Greek New Testament. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in 2 Corinthians. It occurs only once, in 2 Corinthians 6:2. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. See the sense tree, 1-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1873 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Corinthians 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 100%
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: I have heard 1×
- American Standard Version: I hearkened 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: I heard 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: I listened 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1873 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1873 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1873 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1873 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
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 ear to, listen to
- to hear with favour, grant one's request
Word origin
Derived from επι (epí) (G1909) — upon.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1873, 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
- επαγγελλω epangéllō G1861 to announce
- επαγω epágō G1863 to bring upon
- επαγωνιζομαι epagōnízomai G1864 to contend
- επαθροιζω epathroízō G1865 to gather together
- επαινεω epainéō G1867 to approve
- επαινος épainos G1868 approval
- επαιρω epaírō G1869 to lift up
- επαισχυνομαι epaischýnomai G1870 to be ashamed
- επαιτεω epaitéō G1871 to ask repeatedly
- επακροαομαι epakroáomai G1874 to listen to
- επαν epán G1875 after
- επαναγκες epánankes G1876 necessarily
- επαναγω epanágō G1877 to lead back
- επαναμιμνησκω epanamimnḗskō G1878 to remind
- επαναπαυομαι epanapaúomai G1879 to rest upon
- επανερχομαι epanérchomai G1880 to return
- επανισταμαι epanístamai G1881 to raise up against
- επανορθωσις epanórthōsis G1882 correction
- επανω epánō G1883 above
- επαρκεω eparkéō G1884 to avail
- επαρχια eparchía G1885 office of governor
- επαυλις épaulis G1886 farm
- επαυριον epaúrion G1887 the next day
- επαυτοφωρω epautophṓrōi G1888 caught in the act
+110 more words share this root (not shown).
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 137 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word επακουω appears 90 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 83 verses in 17 books.
- 90
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 83
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 17 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 17 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 16:11 ἐπιἀκούω
- Joshua 10:14 ἐπιἀκούω
- 1 Samuel 7:9 ἐπιἀκούω
- 2 Samuel 21:14 ἐπιἀκούω
- 1 Kings 18:24 ἐπιἀκούω
- 2 Kings 13:4 ἐπιἀκούω
- 1 Chronicles 5:20 ἐπιἀκούω
- 2 Chronicles 6:19 ἐπιἀκούω
- Ezra 8:23 ἐπιἀκούω
- Job 8:6 ἐπιἀκούω
- Psalms 3:5 ἐπιἀκούω
- Proverbs 15:29 ἐπιἀκούω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1873) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 83. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 16:11 ἐπιἀκούω The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.
- Genesis 17:20 ἐπιἀκούω As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
- Genesis 21:17 ἐπιἀκούω 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 25:21 ἐπιἀκούω Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
- Genesis 30:6 ἐπιἀκούω Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son." Therefore called she his name Dan.
- Genesis 30:17 ἐπιἀκούω God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.
- Genesis 30:22 ἐπιἀκούω God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
- Genesis 30:33 ἐπιἀκούω So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Everyone that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be counted stolen."
- Genesis 35:3 ἐπιἀκούω Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went."
- Joshua 10:14 ἐπιἀκούω There was no day like that before it or after it, that Yahweh listened to the voice of a man: for Yahweh fought for Israel.
- Joshua 22:2 ἐπιἀκούω and said to them, You have kept all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, and have listened to my voice in all that I commanded you:
- 1 Samuel 7:9 ἐπιἀκούω Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a whole burnt-offering to Yahweh: and Samuel cried to Yahweh for Israel; and Yahweh answered him.
- 1 Samuel 8:18 ἐπιἀκούω You shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you shall have chosen you; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.
- 1 Samuel 28:15 ἐπιἀκούω Samuel said to Saul, Why have you disquieted me, to bring me up? Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answers me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do.
- 2 Samuel 21:14 ἐπιἀκούω They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. After that God was entreated for the land.
- 2 Samuel 22:7 ἐπιἀκούω In my distress I called on Yahweh; Yes, I called to my God: He heard my voice out of his temple, My cry [came] into his ears.
- 2 Samuel 24:25 ἐπιἀκούω David built there an altar to Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings and peace-offerings. So Yahweh was entreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
- 1 Kings 18:24 ἐπιἀκούω You call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of Yahweh; and the God who answers by fire, let him be God." All the people answered, "It is well said."
- 1 Kings 18:26 ἐπιἀκούω They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any who answered. They leaped about the altar which was made.
- 1 Kings 18:36 ἐπιἀκούω It happened at the time of the offering of the [evening] offering, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.
- 1 Kings 18:37 ἐπιἀκούω Hear me, Yahweh, hear me, that this people may know that you, Yahweh, are God, and [that] you have turned their heart back again.
- 2 Kings 13:4 ἐπιἀκούω Jehoahaz begged Yahweh, and Yahweh listened to him; for he saw the oppression of Israel, how that the king of Syria oppressed them.
- 1 Chronicles 5:20 ἐπιἀκούω They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he was entreated of them, because they put their trust in him.
- 1 Chronicles 21:26 ἐπιἀκούω David built there an altar to Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings and peace-offerings, and called on Yahweh; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.
- 1 Chronicles 21:28 ἐπιἀκούω At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
- 1 Chronicles 29:23 ἐπιἀκούω Then Solomon sat on the throne of Yahweh as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.
- 2 Chronicles 6:19 ἐπιἀκούω Yet have you respect to the prayer of your servant, and to his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you;
- 2 Chronicles 11:4 ἐπιἀκούω Thus says Yahweh, You shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers: return every man to his house; for this thing is of me. So they listened to the words of Yahweh, and returned from going against Jeroboam.
- 2 Chronicles 24:17 ἐπιἀκούω Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king listened to them.
- 2 Chronicles 25:16 ἐπιἀκούω It happened, as he talked with him, that [the king] said to him, Have we made you of the king's counsel? Stop! Why should you be struck down? Then the prophet stopped, and said, I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this, and have not listened to my counsel.
- 2 Chronicles 30:20 ἐπιἀκούω Yahweh listened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
- 2 Chronicles 30:27 ἐπιἀκούω Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven.
- 2 Chronicles 32:24 ἐπιἀκούω In those days Hezekiah was sick even to death: and he prayed to Yahweh; and he spoke to him, and gave him a sign.
- 2 Chronicles 33:10 ἐπιἀκούω Yahweh spoke to Manasseh, and to his people; but they gave no heed.
- 2 Chronicles 33:13 ἐπιἀκούω He prayed to him; and he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh he was God.
- 2 Chronicles 33:19 ἐπιἀκούω His prayer also, and how [God] was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.
- Ezra 8:23 ἐπιἀκούω So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he was entreated of us.
- Job 8:6 ἐπιἀκούω If you were pure and upright, Surely now he would awaken for you, And make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
- Job 33:12 ἐπιἀκούω "Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just; For God is greater than man.
- Job 33:13 ἐπιἀκούω Why do you strive against him, Because he doesn't give account of any of his matters?
- Job 37:23 ἐπιἀκούω We can't reach the Almighty, He is exalted in power; In justice and great righteousness he will not oppress.
- Psalms 3:5 ἐπιἀκούω I laid myself down and slept. I awakened; for Yahweh sustains me.
- Psalms 16:6 ἐπιἀκούω The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Yes, I have a good inheritance.
- Psalms 19:2 ἐπιἀκούω Day after day they pour forth speech, And night after night they display knowledge.
- Psalms 19:7 ἐπιἀκούω Yahweh's law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh's testimony is sure, making wise the simple.
- Psalms 19:10 ἐπιἀκούω More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; Sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.
- Psalms 33:5 ἐπιἀκούω He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loving kindness of Yahweh.
- Psalms 59:7 ἐπιἀκούω Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For," they say, "who hears us?"
- Psalms 64:6 ἐπιἀκούω They plot injustice, saying, "We have made a perfect plan!" Surely man's mind and heart are cunning.
- Psalms 68:14 ἐπιἀκούω When the Almighty scattered kings in her, It snowed on Zalmon.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1873) 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.
