οὖς
ear
‘ear’ 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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G3775 appears in the Book of Mark — 4 distinct verses. 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.
Mark
- Mark 4:9 ὦτα n acc pl neut He said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear."
- Mark 4:23 ὦτα n acc pl neut If any man has ears to hear, let him hear."
- Mark 7:33 ὦτα n acc pl neut He took him aside from the multitude, privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue.
- Mark 8:18 ὦτα n acc pl neut Having eyes, don't you see? Having ears, don't you hear? Don't you remember?
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.
ους (oûs) is a Greek noun most often rendered “ear.” It first appears in Matthew 10:27. It turns up in 34 verses across 9 books, a moderately common footprint. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. From the same root come ωτιον. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3775 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 →
- 34
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 34 distinct verses.
- 9 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 9 of 27 New Testament books.
- #406
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 406 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 34 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 8 verses 24%
- Luke 7 verses 21%
- Matthew 6 verses 18%
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 34 distinct verses.
- Gospels 17 verses · 50%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 11 verses · 32%
- Johannine 8 verses · 24%
- Revelation 8 verses · 24%
- Pauline corpus 3 verses · 9%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 6%
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: Ears 24×, Ear 13×
- American Standard Version: Ears 23×, Ear 13×, With 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Ears 22×, Ear 12×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Ears 24×, Ear 13×, With 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3775 across 37 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3775 across 38 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3775 across 35 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3775 across 41 tagged occurrences — 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.
- the ear
- metaph. the faculty of perceiving with the mind, the faculty of understanding and knowing
Word origin
Origin: apparently a primary word
Apparently a primary word; the ear (physically or mentally): - ear.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G3775 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὦτα ō̂ta | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | Matthew 11:15 | 16 |
| οὖς oûs | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 10:27 | 13 |
| ὠσὶν ōsìn | Noun, Dative, Plural, Neuter | Matthew 13:15 | 5 |
| ὠσίν ōsín | Noun, Dative, Plural, Neuter | Acts 7:51 | 1 |
| ὦτά ō̂tá | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | Luke 1:44 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3775, 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.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ους appears 159 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 153 verses in 26 books.
- 159
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 153
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 26 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 26 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 20:8 οὖς
- Exodus 10:2 οὖς
- Leviticus 8:23 οὖς
- Numbers 14:28 οὖς
- Deuteronomy 5:1 οὖς
- Joshua 9:2 οὖς
- Judges 7:3 οὖς
- Ruth 4:4 οὖς
- 1 Samuel 3:11 οὖς
- 2 Samuel 3:19 οὖς
- 1 Kings 8:52 οὖς
- 2 Kings 18:26 οὖς
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3775) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 153. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 20:8 οὖς Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very scared.
- Genesis 23:13 οὖς He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, "But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there."
- Genesis 23:16 οὖς Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants' standard.
- Genesis 35:4 οὖς They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
- Genesis 50:4 οὖς When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
- Exodus 10:2 οὖς and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son's son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh."
- Exodus 11:2 οὖς Speak now in the ears of the people, and let them ask every man of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold."
- Exodus 17:14 οὖς Yahweh said to Moses, "Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky."
- Exodus 21:6 οὖς then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the door-post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.
- Exodus 24:7 οὖς He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, "All that Yahweh has spoken will we do, and be obedient."
- Exodus 29:20 οὖς Then you shall kill the ram, and take some of its blood, and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the tip of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood on the altar round about.
- Exodus 32:2 οὖς Aaron said to them, "Take off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me."
- Exodus 32:3 οὖς All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.
- Leviticus 8:23 οὖς He killed it; and Moses took some of its blood, and put it on the tip of Aaron's right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot.
- Leviticus 8:24 οὖς He brought Aaron's sons; and Moses put some of the blood on the tip of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the great toe of their right foot; and Moses sprinkled the blood on the altar round about.
- Leviticus 14:14 οὖς The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
- Leviticus 14:17 οὖς The priest shall put some of the rest of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering.
- Leviticus 14:25 οὖς He shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering. The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
- Leviticus 14:28 οὖς Then the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the trespass offering.
- Numbers 14:28 οὖς Tell them, As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:
- Deuteronomy 5:1 οὖς Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears this day, that you may learn them, and observe to do them.
- Deuteronomy 29:3 οὖς the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders:
- Deuteronomy 31:11 οὖς when all Israel is come to appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he shall choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
- Deuteronomy 31:28 οὖς Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.
- Deuteronomy 31:30 οὖς Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished.
- Deuteronomy 32:44 οὖς Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.
- Joshua 9:2 οὖς that they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.
- Judges 7:3 οὖς Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead. There returned of the people twenty-two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.
- Judges 9:2 οὖς Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you, that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you? Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.
- Judges 9:3 οὖς His mother's brothers spoke of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, He is our brother.
- Judges 17:2 οὖς He said to his mother, The eleven hundred [pieces] of silver that were taken from you, about which you did utter a curse, and did also speak it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. His mother said, Blessed be my son of Yahweh.
- Ruth 4:4 οὖς I thought to disclose it to you, saying, Buy it before those who sit here, and before the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, redeem it: but if you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know; for there is none to redeem it besides you; and I am after you. He said, I will redeem it.
- 1 Samuel 3:11 οὖς Yahweh said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of everyone who hears it shall tingle.
- 1 Samuel 3:17 οὖς He said, "What is the thing that [Yahweh] has spoken to you? Please don't hide it from me. God do so to you, and more also, if you hide anything from me of all the things that he spoke to you."
- 1 Samuel 8:21 οὖς Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of Yahweh.
- 1 Samuel 11:4 οὖς Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and spoke these words in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
- 1 Samuel 15:14 οὖς Samuel said, What means then this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?
- 1 Samuel 18:13 οὖς Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.
- 1 Samuel 25:24 οὖς She fell at his feet, and said, On me, my lord, on me be the iniquity; and please let your handmaid speak in your ears. Hear the words of your handmaid.
- 2 Samuel 3:19 οὖς Abner also spoke in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and to the whole house of Benjamin.
- 2 Samuel 7:22 οὖς Therefore you are great, Yahweh God: for there is none like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
- 2 Samuel 18:12 οὖς The man said to Joab, Though I should receive a thousand [pieces of] silver in my hand, I still wouldn't put forth my hand against the king's son; for in our hearing the king charged you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.
- 2 Samuel 22:7 οὖς 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.
- 1 Kings 8:52 οὖς that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant, and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they cry to you.
- 1 Kings 12:24 οὖς Thus says Yahweh, You shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is of me. So they listened to the word of Yahweh, and returned and went their way, according to the word of Yahweh.
- 2 Kings 18:26 οὖς Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, to Rabshakeh, Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and don't speak with us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people who are on the wall.
- 2 Kings 19:16 οὖς Incline your ear, Yahweh, and hear; open your eyes, Yahweh, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, with which he has sent him to defy the living God.
- 2 Kings 19:28 οὖς Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance is come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
- 2 Kings 21:12 οὖς therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Behold, I bring such evil on Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, both his ears shall tingle.
- 2 Kings 23:2 οὖς The king went up to the house of Yahweh, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of Yahweh.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3775) 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.
