Hearer
ἀκροατήςStrong’s G0202akroatēs
Appears in 4 verses of the New Testament
In short
Akroatēs is the Greek word usually translated “hearers” and “hearer”. It appears in 4 verses of the New Testament.
“(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.”
Meaning
Usually translated “hearers” and “hearer”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- hearers 2
- a hearer 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- James 3
- Romans 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- James 1:22But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
- James 1:23For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
- James 1:25But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Greek dictionary
ἀκροατής akroatēs · hearer
ἀκροατής, οῦ, ὁ (see supr.) [in LXX: Isa.3:3 (לַחַשׁ), Sir.3:29 ;] a hearer: Rom.2:13, Jas.1:22, 23, 25.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hearer” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HE'ARER, noun
One who hears; one who attends to what is orally delivered by another; an auditor; one of an audience.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.