What does διακούομαι (diakoúomai) mean in the Bible?
διακούομαι (diakoúomai) is a Greek word meaning "to give a hearing".
Greek · G1251
διακούομαι
To give a hearing
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διακούομαιG1251
Pronunciationdiakoúomai
What does διακούομαι (diakoúomai) mean in the Bible?
διακούομαι (diakoúomai) is a Greek word meaning "to give a hearing".
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How does the BSB render G1251?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include I will hear your case (1).
Where does διακούομαι (diakoúomai) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Acts 23:35. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders ItI will hear your case1×Acts 23:35
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Usage map
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First aligned rowActs 23:35
Aligned rows1
Books represented1
Acts1
Source forms
Διακούσομαί1xDiakousomaiActs 23:35
Parsing patterns
Verb - Future Indicative Middle - 1st Person Singular1xActs 23:35
Evidence Summary
Greek word. to give a hearing
Source Gloss
to give a hearing
Extended definitionSource: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
to hear through, hear fully; technically, to hear judicially (as De, l.with; of. Deiss., BS, 230): Act.23:35.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Acts 23:35Verb First Person Singular Future Middle Deponent Indicative
Διακούσομαίdiakousomai
I hear throughout, of a judicial hearing
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Discourse Aspect
How this verb appears across 1 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).
Aspect
Tense
future1
Voice
middle1
Mood
indicative1
NT Occurrences
Aspect reflects grammatical form — not authorial emphasis. Participles and infinitives are verbal adjectives and nouns respectively.
Clause data: MACULA Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0) · SBLGNT (Logos/SBL, CC BY 4.0)
Word Origins
διακούομαι is built from these roots: