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3.
$
(
"
, 1251), “to hear through, hear fully” ( , “through,” and No.
1), is used technically, of “hearing” judicially, in Acts 23:35, of Felix in regard to the
charges against Paul.¶ In the Sept., Deut. 1:16; Job 9:33.¶
4.
$
(
#
"
, 1873), “to listen to, hear with favor, at or upon an occasion”
( , “upon,” and No. 1), is used in 2 Cor. 6:2 (
RV
, “hearken”).¶
5.
(
#
$ 1
, 1874), “to listen attentively to” ( , used intensively,
and a verb akin to No. 1), is used in Acts 16:25, “(the prisoners) were listening to
(them),”
RV
, expressive of rapt attention.¶
6.
$
(
$
"
, 4257) signifies “to hear before” ( ), Col. 1:5, where
Lightfoot suggests that the preposition contrasts what they heard before, the true gospel,
with the false gospel of their recent teachers.¶
7.
$
(
$
"
, 3878) primarily signifies “to overhear, hear amiss or
imperfectly” (
, “beside, amiss,” and No. 1); then (in the NT) “to hear without taking
heed, to neglect to hear,” Matt. 18:17 (twice); in Mark 5:36 the best mss. have this verb,
which the
RV
renders “not heeding” (marg., “overhearing”); some mss. have No. 1,
KJV
,
“hearing.” It seems obvious that the Lord paid no attention to those from the ruler’s house
and their message that his daughter was dead.¶ Cf. the noun
, “disobedience.”
B. Nouns.
1.
(
)
, 189), akin to A, No. 1, denotes (a) “the sense of hearing,” 1 Cor.
12:17; 2 Pet. 2:8; a combination of verb and noun is used in phrases which have been
termed Hebraic as they express somewhat literally an OT phraseology, e.g., “By hearing
ye shall hear,” Matt. 13:14; Acts 28:26,
RV
, a mode of expression conveying emphasis;
(b) “the organ of hearing,” Mark 7:35, “ears”; Luke 7:1,
RV
, “ears,” for
KJV
, “audience”;
Acts 17:20; 2 Tim. 4:3, 4; Heb. 5:11, “dull of hearing,” lit., “dull as to ears”; (c) “a thing
heard, a message or teaching,” John 12:38, “report”; Rom. 10:16; 1 Thess. 2:13, “the
word of the message,” lit. “the word of hearing” (
KJV
, “which ye heard”); Heb. 4:2, “the
word of hearing,”
RV
, for
KJV
, “the word preached”; in a somewhat similar sense, “a
rumor, report,” Matt. 4:24; 14:1; Mark 1:28,
KJV
, “fame,”
RV
, “report”; Matt. 24:6; Mark
13:7, “rumors (of wars)”; (d) “the receiving of a message,” Rom. 10:17, something more
than the mere sense of “hearing” [see (a)]; so with the phrase “the hearing of faith,” Gal.
3:2, 5, which it seems better to understand so than under (c). See
EAR
,
FAME
,
PREACH
,
REPORT
,
RUMOR
.¶
Notes:
(1) For
(investigation, followed by decision), rendered “hearing” in
Acts 25:21,
KJV
, see
DECISION
. (2) For the phrase to be dull of hearing, lit., “to hear
heavily,” Matt. 13:15; Acts 28:27, see
DULL
. (3) For
, “a place of hearing,”
Acts 25:23, see
PLACE
.¶
HEARER
(
$ )
, 202), from
, “to listen,” is used in Rom. 2:13, “of a
law”; Jas. 1:22, 23, “of the word”; v. 25, “a (forgetful) hearer.”¶
Note:
In Eph. 4:29 and 2 Tim. 2:14, the verb
$
, “to hear,” is rendered “hearers”
in the
KJV
(
RV
, “them that hear”).