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|txtha=genitive [[ὠτός]], plural [[ὦτα]], dative [[ὦσιν]], τό (cf. Latin auris, ausculto, audio, etc.; [[akin]] to [[ἀΐω]], [[αἰσθάνομαι]]; cf. [[Curtius]], § 619; Vanicek, p. 67); from [[Homer]] [[down]]; [[Hebrew]] אֹזֶן; the [[ear]];<br /><b class="num">1.</b> [[properly]]: [[ὦτα]] τίνος [[εἰς]] δέησιν, to [[hear]] [[supplication]], ἡ [[γραφή]] πληροῦται ἐν τοῖς [[ὠσί]] τίνος, [[while]] [[present]] and [[hearing]], συνέχειν ([[which]] [[see]] 2a.) τά [[ὦτα]], to [[stop]] [[their]] ears, ἠκούσθη τί [[εἰς]] τά [[ὦτα]] τίνος, [[something]] [[was]] [[heard]] by, came to the [[knowledge]] of (A. V. came to the ears of) [[one]], ἐισέρχεσθαι, γίνεσθαι, to [[come]] [[unto]] the ears of [[one]], ἀκούειν [[εἰς]] τό [[οὖς]], to [[hear]] (A. V. in the [[ear]] i. e.) in [[familiar]] [[converse]], [[privately]], [[εἰς]] [[οὖς]] [[often]] so in classical Greek; cf. Passow (Liddell and Scott), [[under]] the [[word]], 1); [[also]] [[πρός]] τό [[οὖς]] λαλεῖν, the [[faculty]] of perceiving [[with]] the [[mind]], the [[faculty]] of [[understanding]] and [[knowing]]: ὁ ἔχων (or εἰ [[τίς]] [[ἔχει]]) [[ὦτα]] (or [[οὖς]], in Rev.) ([[sometimes]] ([[especially]] in Mark and Luke) [[with]] ἀκούειν added; cf. Buttmann, § 140,3) ἀκουέτω, [[whoever]] has the [[faculty]] of attending and [[understanding]], [[let]] him [[use]] it, T WH [[omit]]; Tr brackets the [[verse]]); τοῖς [[ὠσί]] [[βαρέως]] ἀκούειν, to be [[slow]] to [[understand]] or [[obey]] (A. V. [[their]] ears are [[dull]] of [[hearing]]), [[ὦτα]] ἔχοντες [[οὐκ]] ἀκούετε, [[ὦτα]] [[τοῦ]] μή ἀκούειν, (ears [[that]] [[they]] should [[not]] [[hear]]; cf. Buttmann, 267 (230)), θέσθε [[τούς]] λόγους [[τούτους]] [[εἰς]] τά [[ὦτα]] (A. V. [[let]] these words [[sink]] [[into]] [[your]] ears i. e.) [[take]] [[them]] [[into]] [[your]] [[memory]] and [[hold]] [[them]] [[there]], [[ἀπερίτμητος]] τοῖς [[ὦσιν]] ([[see]] [[ἀπερίτμητος]]), Acts 7:51.

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