noun · masculine
akroatos
Strong’sG202
a hearer of, a listener to
stem akroat-4 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ἀκροατής, οῦ, ὁ (v. supr.)
[in LXX: Is 3:3 (לַחַשׁ), Si 3:29;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G202 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidak-ro-at-ace'
apparently an intensive of G191); a hearer (merely)
Fromfrom ἀκροάομαι (to listen;
King Jameshearer.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
hearer, of persons who come to hear a public speaker, Refs 5th c.BC+; disciple, pupil, Refs 4th c.BC+
II reader, Refs 1st c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | akroatos2×ἀκροατὴς | akroatois2×ἀκροαταὶ |
| object accusative | akroaton | akroatoin |
| direct address vocative | akroator | akroatoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | akroatou | akroatoiu |
| to, for dative | akroato | akroatoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
akroato is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
akroatos“hearer”subjectnominative singular2×
James 1:23“hearer”hoti ei tinos akroatos logou atō kai ouk poiētos, houtos …For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a …
James 1:25… ton tau eleutheriau kai paramenarantos, ouk akroatos epilēsmonau generantos alla poiētos ergeu, houtos …… do so — not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer — he will …
akroatois“hearers”subjectnominative plural2×
Romans 2:13ouk gar tois akroatois nomou dikaiois para to theo, alla …For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous …
James 1:22Genovōr de poiētois logou kai mē akroatois monem paralogizorōntois heautoin.… doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.