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ἐπήκοον (epekoon)

ἐπήκοον is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπήκοος, meaning “listening, giving ear to; listening to prayer”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 43 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De Genio Socratis 20: … τοῖς μὲν ὡς ἀληθῶς ὄναρ ἡ τοιαύτη σύνεσις γίγνεται, διʼ ἡσυχίαν καὶ γαλήνην τοῦ σώματος, ὅταν καθεύδωσι μόλις ἐπήκοον ἔχουσι τὴν ψυχὴν τῶν κρειττόνων καὶ πεπνιγμένοι γε θορύβῳ τῶν παθῶν καὶ περιαγωγῇ τῶν χρειῶν εἰσακοῦσαι καὶ π …

All forms of ἐπήκοος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.