UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Notes: ἀκούω[g] and διακούω apparently differ somewhat in meaning from ἀνακρίνω[b] (56.12: ἀνακρίνω / 56.12: ἀνάκρισις) in that the former two seem to be more neutral in connotation and do not appear to imply later condemnation.

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Related lemmas: ἀκούω

Sense 1: to hear a case, to provide a legal hearing, to hear a case in court

Semantic entry: 56.13

Semantic domains: Courts and Legal Procedures

Subdomains: Judicial Hearing, Inquiry

Definition: to give a judicial hearing in a legal matter{N:001}

Notes: In some languages the most satisfactory way of speaking about ‘a court hearing’ is to describe the relationship between the principal participants. This may sometimes be done by translating ‘for a judge to listen to an accuser and a defender.’

ACT 23:35: RV ACT 23:35 · LV ACT 23:35 · Read together ACT 23:35

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OET-RV ACT 23:35

35 ⇔Then he ordered Paulos to be kept under guard in the prison in Herodes’s (Herod) palace until he would hear from him in the future once his accusers got there.

OET-LV ACT 23:35

35 he _was _saying I _will _be _thoroughly _hearing from _you:
whenever also the accusers of _you may _arrive, having _commanded for _him to _be _being _guarded in the residence _of _the _governor the of _Haʸrōdaʸs.

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

διακούω

Form 1

Sense 1: to hear a case, to provide a legal hearing, to hear a case in court