Strong’s G189 · Greek
ἀκοή
akoḗ
Definition
hearing (the act, the sense or the thing heard)
Etymology
from G191 (ἀκούω);
Where the KJV renders it
- audience
- ear
- fame
- which ye heard
- hearing
- preached
- report
- rumor
Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.
What the first audience heard
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