Definition

to hear (in various senses)

Etymology

a primary verb;

Where the KJV renders it

• give (in the) audience (of)
• come (to the ears)
• (shall) hear(-er
• -ken)
• be noised
• be reported
• understand

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

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.