Mark 3:8:19Mark.3.8.W19TAB
ἀκούοντες
akouontes
“hearing”
- Transliteration
- a-KOU-on-tes
- Extended
- ah-KOO-ohn-tehs
- IPA
- /aˈkuː.on.tes/
Meaning by language
- English
- hearing
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Alphabet Analysis
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Kappa | k — as in kite | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Upsilon | i — as in machine | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Nu | n — as in new | |
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Sigma (final) | s — used only at end of words |
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Word in context
- word
a-KOU-on-tes
- sentence
KAI a-PO hi-e-ro-so-LY-mōn KAI a-PO tês i-dou-mai-AS KAI PE-ran tou i-or-DA-nou KAI pe-RI TY-ron KAI si-DÔ-na PLÊ-thos po-LY a-KOU-on-tes HO-sa e-POI-ei ÊL-thon pros au-TON
Exegesis
The participle akouontes {ἀκούοντες | akoúontes} ‘hearing’ (nominative plural) functions circumstantially, linked with the relative pronoun hosa {ὅσα | hósa} ‘all that’, to express the basis or occasion for their response: they came because they were hearing about His works.
Root and etymology
ακου-
“to hear, listen”
In context — Mark 3:8
And from Jerusalem and from Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude , hearing all that He was doing, came to Him.
About this coordinate
Mark 3:8:19 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 19 of Mark 3:8, so the Greek word ἀκούοντες (akouontes) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Mark.3.8.W19, which extends further down to each syllable (Mark.3.8.W19.S1) and character.