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εἰσακούω

eisakouo

hearken, give ear to, give way, yield

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Where it lives

Habacuc 2 · 18.28/10k
Michaeas 4 · 17.56/10k
Ichneutae 3 · 17.45/10k
Psalmi 51 · 14.92/10k
Zacharias 7 · 14.51/10k
Susanna (LXX) 1 · 13.09/10k
Deuteronomium 27 · 12.08/10k
Exodus 28 · 11.83/10k
Sophonias 1 · 8.45/10k
Malachias 1 · 7.2/10k
Job 9 · 6.75/10k
Regnorum III 12 · 6.28/10k

Densest 12 of 60 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

εἰσᾰκούω · eisakouō — LSJ

hearken, give ear to, give way, yield

hearken or give ear to one, ὡς ἔφατʼ· οὐδʼ ἐσάκουσε.. Ὀδυσσεύς Il. 8.97, cf. Hdt. 4.133, al. : c. acc., φωνὴν ἐσάκουσαν h.Cer. 284, cf. E. Hec. 559, etc. : c. gen. pers., S. Aj. 789 ; τῶν ἐμῶν λόγων E. IA 1368 : c. dat. pers., Hdt. 1.214, etc. ; τινί τι Id. 9.60 ; give way, yield to a request, Th. 1.126, 3.4; of God, τινός or τῆς προσευχῆς LXX Ps. 4.2, etc. :—so in Pass., of the prayer, Ev.Luc. 1.13 ; of the person, Ev.Matt. 6.7.

2 hear

in Poets, simply, hear, τούτου λέγοντος εἰσήκουσʼ ἐγώ, ὡς.. S. Tr. 351; τίνος βροτῶν λόγον τόνδʼ εἰ.; Id. El. 884, cf. Aj. 318, Axiop. 1.12 ; ζῶντʼ εἰσακούσας παῖδα E. El. 416.

3 perceive, feel effect of

perceive, feel effect of, τοῦ ἐγκεφάλου ἐσακούσαντος τοῦ τρώματος Hp. Prorrh. 2.14.

Pass. in strict sense, ἔξωθεν εἰς τὰς οἰκίας εἰσακούεται μᾶλλον ἢ ἔσωθεν ἔξω Arist. Pr. 903b13 (v.l. εἴσω ἀκ.).

In the wild

εἰσακούουσιν · eisakouousin Epictetus, Fragments (DIORISIS sentence 162)
εἰσακούσας · eisakousas Euripides, Electra 415 (DIORISIS sentence 242)
εἰσήκουσε · eisēkouse Euripides, Hecuba *talqu/bios (DIORISIS sentence 295)
εἰσήκουςʼ · eisēkousʼ Euripides, Helen *(ele/nh (DIORISIS sentence 23)
εἰσακούεται · eisakouetai Euripides, Heracles 490–491
εἰσηκούομεν · eisēkouomen Euripides, Heracles 516–517

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